Blurb...practical or not?

[Frank Petronio]

SlackerCruster - you do understand that you only pay for the books you want, one at a time, right? I will order one $35 book and that's it, it is printed just for me, as orders come in. It's not like traditional publishing where you have to print a quantity for a significant amount of money to get the unit price down.

And no, you can't really make any money at it, the unit cost is still high compared to traditional publishing so there is no room for the distributor's mark up, etc.

Print quality - they aren't fine art books, you get what you pay for. Go to a place like http://www.booksmartstudio.com and drop a grand and get good print quality ;-p

[slackercruster]

I've learned to accept all the hunting terminology used in photography - shooting, shot, captured, etc. I can even almost tolerate someone calling developer "soup" or "souped." But "tog" for photography? Please, no.

Sorry, but unless it violates the law or you want to be my personal secretary and type my posts...I must go with tog. Oh, tog if for phot tog grapher not photography.

[slackercruster]

SlackerCruster - you do understand that you only pay for the books you want, one at a time, right? I will order one $35 book and that's it, it is printed just for me, as orders come in. It's not like traditional publishing where you have to print a quantity for a significant amount of money to get the unit price down.

And no, you can't really make any money at it, the unit cost is still high compared to traditional publishing so there is no room for the distributor's mark up, etc.

Print quality - they aren't fine art books, you get what you pay for. Go to a place like http://www.booksmartstudio.com and drop a grand and get good print quality ;-p

OK, thanks Frank. I'd like to see the pix quality first.

How is the binding? Glued? Do the pages pull out or are they solid?

Thanks for the booksmart, will check them out.

[slackercruster]

Togs AND hdr, I'll stop there.

What is wrong with HDR? You realize when you dodge and burn you are doing 'basic' HDR?

Oh well, read what you like. That is what I do.

[Frank Petronio]

Buy one and see, there are thousands to choose from. The bindings are good, sometimes a bit loose on the hardcovers.

[vinny]

What is wrong with HDR? You realize when you dodge and burn you are doing 'basic' HDR?

Oh well, read what you like. That is what I do.

What?
Dodging and burning isn't a fad. Bad dodging and burning looks aweful, kinda like 99% of hdr work in existence.