Same problem with printing. Quality is at the mercy of the printer. How much do you want to spend on this book, and how big is the production run?
We used to have problems with high end kids books that sold only 10,000 per year. The marketing/sales force would deliberately overestimate sales at 20,000/year, so the production run would be bigger and cost lower. Of course inventory carrying cost was then the problem...along with titles that only sold 5,000 instead of 10,000 per year. Regards, Bob S. On 4/18/06, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 17, 2006, at 7:49 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote: > > > I wonder about books in this digital age. > > Two suggestions: > > 1) Sell a virtual book of images...low production costs. > > 2) Don't do a book, try a BOX of display images. > > There is a local scrapbook store that sells boxes. > > Sell a boxed portfolio of your photos. > > The problem with option #1 is that there is no way to ensure what > your images/photos/whathaveyou will look like on a purchaser's > screen. Lenswork is doing this with their Lenswork Extra CD > editions ... the user interface is only just "OK", and I luckily have > a high quality monitor with proper calibration so I think I'm seeing > about 50-60% of what a printed book or folio might be. But I > subscribe to both the print and CD versions of the magazine ... and > there's no comparison to the printed magazine. > > Godfrey > >
