Photo Book

Antoinette4897

I am looking to publish a photo book of my photography. I am having a hard time finding something that is cost effective but of good quality. Everything that I have checked out is just expensive enough that you can't sell it for a reasonable, affordable price. Does anyone out there know of any other ideas to look into.

Digital Illusions

i am interested in this too, but affordable to me is different than affordable to you. what do you want to spend? how big do you want it to be? page count?

Antoinette4897

Photo Book
I could probably spend a couple hundred dollars the first time and then reinvest what I make from the book. I am also thinking about 50 or so pages.

Alleh Lindquist

www.Blurb.com pretty good quality for the price but print a test copy first to make sure the images print the way you want them. Photos often print darker on paper then they look on a monitor.

davidweaver

My Publisher offers some different sizes and covers. If you are a Costco member there is a 55% off deal gojng on until the season hits in a couple weeks.

Alleh Lindquist wrote:

www.Blurb.com pretty good quality for the price but print a test copy first to make sure the images print the way you want them. Photos often print darker on paper then they look on a monitor.

Art Scott

davidweaver wrote:

My Publisher offers some different sizes and covers

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Kenny

Art Scott wrote:

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mercphoto

Antoinette4897 wrote:

I am looking to publish a photo book of my photography. I am having a hard time finding something that is cost effective but of good quality. Everything that I have checked out is just expensive enough that you can't sell it for a reasonable, affordable price. Does anyone out there know of any other ideas to look into.

Are you looking at publish-on-demand services (Blurb is like this), or to publish a first-edition run and then attempt to sell them one-by-one? On-demand will be more expensive per copy but you have no up-front costs. But printing a run in-bulk is cheaper per-copy, with the added risk of forking over your own money and waiting for the sales to come in and replace your investment.

I would check out www.poundslabs.com about a volume discount on their Press Books. They are an Austin company with a long and positive history and produce a book of noticeably higher quality than Blurb, comparable in all respects to Asuka Book at much lower prices.

EDIT -- I just looked over Pound's prices. While definitely cheaper than Asuka, I think they're still higher than Blurb. However, the quality is much, much better. Personally, for all the hype about Blurb I really think their quality is just so-so.

ddkphotos

don't know how many you're looking at printing - but I've had several made at shutterfly and they're very reasonably priced and look good.