Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/08/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I admire your perseverence, but I shall not be participating. Just too many changes from the project I initially joined a decade ago. My view is that the project has had its day but that it is time to move on?for me, anyway. Obviously, if others wish to submit and to buy the books, all power to you! Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> YNWA > On 25 Aug 2016, at 21:09, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> > wrote: > > There were some vote of confidence that my wife and I should again do the > LUG book, for 2016. > > I know there were some complaints about our sequencing of the images. This > part I would like to keep, unless there are too many objections. > > The big problem is that the cost of the book is too high. One possibility > is that we go with softcover only and have a commercial printer handling > printing in US and we will ship them out ourselves via Media Mail, which > quite inexpensive. The commercial printer also gives a bit better pricing > than Blurb. We have a couple web sites that take credit card or paypal so > it's not an issue. People can also send checks. > > For non-US, we can still use Blurb. We should be able to find a size and > soft cover option so that the one from the commercial printer and Blurb > will look similar. > > PDF can be handled directly by us. Cutting down on cost and order problem > as well. > > Nominally the book's profit goes to a non-profit. Perhaps we should change > that and request an "entry fee" of $3-$5 where the entire fee goes to the > non-profit. > > I am still NOT kin on limiting the gears or themes. > > Thoughts? > -- > "Some People Drive, We Are Driven" > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > richardmanphoto on Facebook and Instagram > <https://instagram.com/richardmanphoto> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information