Hello. Focus Magazine is putting the finishing touches on our new online bookstore, www.photobookconnoisseur.net. We are still testing a few things and working out a couple of glitches, but we should be 100% up by the end of the week. We are looking for phoographers who have published books of photography in the past to sell their books off of the website.
Here's how it works:
Go to http://www.photobookconnoisseur.net/blankfeed.csv, fill out the parameters in the csv file and send the file to me. The link where people go to in order to purchase the book must be off of your website or a website that handles sales of the book. Our new online bookstore is only a gateway for collectors of fine books of photography to find your book. They must purchase it directly from you.
This is something we will be charging $250 a year for soon, but through the end of September, we will be giving this away to any and all photographers for free to help us gain more content in the bookstore.
Also, we are looking for additional book projects to publish by the end of this year. Our first one, Seaons of the Moon is already on press as we speak and will be ready to ship within 4 weeks. I hope to have at least 5 projects done by the end of the year so we can get a small booth next year at Photo LA and market these books directly to collectors and connoisseurs of high end photographic books. The printer we are using has upgraded his press and is now using a traditional/stachatto hybrid 400 linescreen heidelberg 40" press that delivers some of the highest quality reproductions available. More information about Seasons of the Moon will be available very soon. Many people had valid arguments against the way the previous site was designed, so we recently re-designed focuspublishing.net. Hope to work with some of you soon.
