Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/04/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Blurb has an option to publish in an economy or premium magazine format. Their claim is that the quality equals news stand publications. As an example, the base cost (with no markup) for the premium option with 100 pages is USD $21.99 plus postage. The prices and options are all publicly viewable on the Blurb sites of course. Regarding the PDF option (vs. an eBook for iPad) I considered this for 2014. Some members expressed concerns to me and I opted not to offer that option , promising not to do so as to allay those concerns. Those included that any image displayable on a computer screen may be saved/duplicated at the displayed image quality/resolution. Hence contributors' images could be copied without control (which of course applies to any image on-line at all). So if contributors were sensitive that their images might be copied without permission this is an issue. That is a whole topic on its own of course. The PDF optionally Blurb generated and downloadable by the editor (last few Yearbooks published in print) does not appear to have any copy/read protection at all, so anyone having a copy of the file can duplicate or distribute it with no control by the editor over that. For interest the files range from ~76MB to ~260MB If a document is generated as a PDF with Acrobat or similar (not the free version) security restrictions can be implemented. However someone else such as Brian, would be vastly more knowledgeable on that topic. Cheers Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman