Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/04/11

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Subject: [Leica] LUG Yearbook sales
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 13:49:32 -0500
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Douglas,

I'm not Frank, but, checking the LUG Gallery, it shows 658 "items". Of 
course, some folks may have more than one gallery file.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 4/11/2016 1:44 PM, Douglas Barry wrote:
> Frank,
> Lugland has a population of 1,000? Where did that figure come from as 
> it seems surprisingly large to me?
> Douglas
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Filippone" 
> <red735i at verizon.net>
> To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2016 4:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] LUG Yearbook sales
>
>
>> I am at the stage in Life where I do not want more "stuff".  My Kids 
>> do not
>> want to have to get rid of even more "stuff" after I am gone.  A printed
>> Book is "stuff".
>> The PDF version is a perfect solution for me... the Charity gets the
>> donation, I get to look at and study the images, and my Kids do not 
>> have to
>> rid our house with more "stuff" (hopefully after I am gone...).
>>
>> For those that think a PDF version is somehow a downplay from a printed
>> version, and therefore is some kind of ridiculousness, you are 
>> entitled to
>> your opinion.
>>
>> I am saddened that no PDF 2015 version was/is not available.
>>
>> The World at large hardly is interested in a book of images that are in
>> their own right non-thematic, non-consistent in quality, at a $100 price
>> point, non-juried, from a group of photographers whose only 
>> connection to
>> each other is a computer and a few Internet wires.. Publicity will 
>> get you a
>> few curious people to buy one.... but asking the Editor to put out 
>> even more
>> energy to promote to the world seems totally out of line.
>>
>> This is not rocket science...   If the purpose of the Yearbook is 
>> still to
>> donate to a charity, then let's get our "stuff" together and make 
>> sure that
>> the roughly 1000 of us in LUG-Land make a suitable donation....
>>
>> My suggestion:  the solution is to charge a nominal fee ( cost from 
>> Blurb
>> for PDF distribution  plus the donation) for entering your 2 images 
>> into the
>> book, for which, you automatically get a code for the PDF 
>> version....  At
>> 100 Photographers submittals, and a charity donation of $5 each, the 
>> charity
>> would collect $500, and those that want to "feel" the pages, can as well
>> buy a printed version....
>>
>> Or, if you prefer to not "force" the purchase of the PDF version,
>>
>> Just charge a Charity Fee for entry... the donation amount.
>>
>> The whole purpose of this project was (is?) to gather money for a 
>> charity.
>>
>> This is all about giving.  Not Ego.
>>
>> I hope.
>>
>> Frank Filippone
>> Red735i at verizon.net
>>
>>
>>
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