Picture book....

[Keiran Smith]

I would also go paperback it seems to be conciderally more affordable.
However it seems to have a bad habbit of falling appart.

2009/1/16 Ian Weller <ianweller at gmail.com>

> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:47:20PM -0800, Doug Berry wrote:
> > Hey Community,
> >
> > Sorry I did not get back sooner. My friend at
> > LSI called my cell phone -- I was waiting for
> > an email. Did not check my messages until today.
> >
> > The gist of what she said is that we can indeed
> > do a hard cover full color book, but we would
> > have to do so using off-set printing.
> >
> > And she could not give a cost estimate, because
> > the cost would depend on how much color and the
> > degree of difficulty for the printer in setting
> > up the book.
> >
> > Off-set would probably create a much better
> > looking book, as far as image quality goes.
> > It is the industry standard for printing high
> > quality books.
> >
> > But using off-set, each color page would
> > require that four separate plates would have
> > to be made to produce a color image. Blue, red,
> > yellow, and black is the way they used to describe
> > it, but now it is CMYK (short for cyan, magenta,
> > yellow, and key (black)  We could, however, use
> > a mixture of b&w and color pages. Then we would pay
> > less for the b&w pages that don't have color on them.
> >
> > Still, since we are not driven to make a
> > huge profit off of each book, we could adjust
> > the book price to allow for the additional
> > printing costs.
> >
> With the current state of the economy and everything I want to make
> these books as affordable as possible to the consumers.
>
> I think paperback with color pages is the way to go. But we can vote or
> whatever on that later.
>
> More importantly, we need to decide the requirements for photos in the
> book. Nicu, can you help us out on that?
>
> Also I'm getting prepared on how tos on uploading photos to the wiki,
> release forms, etc. Once that's ready to roll, we'll have a process
> worked out for contributing your photos and stories to the book.
>
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