Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/08/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Richard, from my side, I would say that you should just do whatever is convenient for you. I enjoy the compilation, in any form, every year. Cheers Jayanand On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 12:39 AM, 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 >