Just an idea too...

A friend and I are shooting around where we live for the month.  There has never been a book produced with shots of Maldon (my home town) and it's a touristy place in the summer.  So we're looking to produce books, print on demand, and get a farmers market stall for a few weekends and see if we can flog our wares, along with some prints from the books.  We're going to try and convince local shops to take the books, and even see if we can flog them on eBay.  If it all goes arse over tit, we'll just be left with a few books and prints to give to family and friends for Christmas.     I'm also looking into getting an exhibition space to show the prints.

This can be used as a springboard for so many things.  You just need your imagination.   

Go for it Seren. Already done it and made money at it but it's furry hard work.

I've heard good reports about Lulu.com as Steve mentioned above, and if you don't want to go down the traditional publisher route it could be the way.

May I suggest MyPublisher instead of Lulu? I did test prints at both and there's a major difference in quality. lulu is color photocopy and MyPublisher is 4 color print process. Yes Lulu is slightly cheaper but ... you get what you pay for.

May I suggest MyPublisher instead of Lulu? I did test prints at both and there's a major difference in quality. lulu is color photocopy and MyPublisher is 4 color print process. Yes Lulu is slightly cheaper but ... you get what you pay for.

do you know how mypublisher compares to asuka books?

Excellent idea, Seren!

I have been participating in NaNoWriMo for four years and I know that frenzy and crazy thing WORKS and IS fun, so I am happily joining SoFoBoMo as well...

My idea is to make a series of images that could work well together in a single story or in a series of interconnected stories (my next NaNoWriMo novel perhaps?). The good thing is I will be moving from the country to our capital city in about two weeks, so I hope to have a lot of places (i.e. settings) to explore and people (i.e. characters) to discover :-)

(I don't have any experience with using flickr as a contributor, so it may take some time before I appear on the discussion forum there, but I will definitely keep an eye on this thread to see what�s new)

You might want to check out http://chromedigitalpress.com/s-07-photobookservices.html. They do soft cover books and have 4 color print process.

I personally would never buy a photo book from Lulu.

Quote from: kosmikkreeper on March 14, 2008, 09:37

May I suggest MyPublisher instead of Lulu? I did test prints at both and there's a major difference in quality. lulu is color photocopy and MyPublisher is 4 color print process. Yes Lulu is slightly cheaper but ... you get what you pay for.

Mypublisher only do photobooks, they don't appear to produce a soft cover perfect bound book, which is what I want.  Plus with a base price of $30, plus whatever (if) to ship to the UK, you're looking at selling it for $50-$60 to get a half decent mark up.  I'm planning on selling these for around $25 max.   

CORRECTION: They do a soft cover book, but only 20 pages.  And you have to use one of their template.  The books I've seen from LuLu easily compare to books you would get in a shop.  Perhaps I'm just not knowledgeable to tell the difference. 

Guys!  This isn't about which company I'm going to use to print my books!  Firstly I like the quality I've seen from Lulu, secondly, there is no point in recommending half of these because they don't ship to the UK, or they cost a fortune!

The post was to see if anyone was interested in the concept, and perhaps to discuss the idea.