9:09 a.m.
In summary, we need to separate CONTENT CREATION and DISTRIBUTION into
two separate tasks.
CONTENT CREATION
================
We need to read over their file creation guide as well as their cover
template generator, and their color cover/interior
suggestions/guidelines. The sales guy basically said that our job is to
deliver them a .pdf file, so anything we use to create content that can
spit out a .pdf is going to be ok, but he urged us to read those
documents to be sure.
We can choose 7x10, 8x10, or 8.5x11 as the "trim" size.
They are mailing a sample of their work to Red Hat in Raleigh, where I
will be next week to take a look at it.
DISTRIBUTION
============
SETUP FEE -- $75
PROOF FEE -- $15 + $.09 per page = $22.20
1-49 copies: $9.50 each
50-99 copies: $9.025 each
100-249 copies: $8.55 each
250-499 copies: $7.60 each
500+ copies: $7.125 each
200 copies will run us $1807.20 plus tax ($9.04 each)
300 copies will run us $2377.20 plus tax ($7.92 each)
400 copies will run us $3137.20 plus tax ($7.84 each)
500 copies will run us $3659.70 plus tax ($7.32 each)
We can either (a) do whatever we want with the books or (b) do whatever
we want with some of the books and put the others on Amazon, etc.
=========
My recommendation is that we continue working to produce the book, and
assuming that the quality of their sample is good, we go with LSI.
--Max
3:38 p.m.
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 04:09:41PM +0200, Max Spevack wrote:
In summary, we need to separate CONTENT CREATION and DISTRIBUTION
into
two separate tasks.
CONTENT CREATION
================
We need to read over their file creation guide as well as their cover
template generator, and their color cover/interior
suggestions/guidelines. The sales guy basically said that our job is to
deliver them a .pdf file, so anything we use to create content that can
spit out a .pdf is going to be ok, but he urged us to read those
documents to be sure.
We can choose 7x10, 8x10, or 8.5x11 as the "trim" size.
Color books have the option of a "medium paperback" which is 8.5x8.5
trim size. This size is also less expensive than the sizes listed here.
(See http://ianweller.fedorapeople.org/lsi-docs/uscolorbookaddendum.pdf)
I also like the concept of a square book a lot more, but if there are
reasons for the sizes above that people can come up with, please reply!
They are mailing a sample of their work to Red Hat in Raleigh, where
I
will be next week to take a look at it.
Cool!
My recommendation is that we continue working to produce the book,
and
assuming that the quality of their sample is good, we go with LSI.
Yes. If you still have pictures, please take the time to upload them or
contact somebody about them. Other than that, we'll be waiting for a
huge influx of pictures from FUDCon Berlin.
--
Ian Weller <ianweller(a)gmail.com>
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1:25 a.m.
On 04/15/2009 11:38 PM, Ian Weller wrote:
Yes. If you still have pictures, please take the time to upload them
or
contact somebody about them. Other than that, we'll be waiting for a
huge influx of pictures from FUDCon Berlin.
We can postpone the book for two months and wait for the Berlin FUDCon,
in which case I will scrap my current proposed photos and won't bother
with getting the release forms, hopefully will have the opportunity ti
get some more, or we can get the photographers to do an effort to
release more photos from this large pool:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/fudconbrno/
--
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photography: http://photoblog.nicubunu.ro/
my Fedora stuff: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/
10:36 a.m.
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Nicu Buculei wrote:
We can postpone the book for two months
Why don't we start laying stuff out with good photos that we have now,
and simply add to it after Berlin? We don't have to put everything on
hold just because FUDCon Berlin will show us some new pictures, right?
--Max
6:34 p.m.
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 05:36:15PM +0200, Max Spevack wrote:
Why don't we start laying stuff out with good photos that we have
now,
and simply add to it after Berlin? We don't have to put everything on
hold just because FUDCon Berlin will show us some new pictures, right?
As far as I'm concerned we're still in that stage where we want mockups
of page styles. I'll ping the art list again.
--
Ian Weller <ianweller(a)gmail.com>
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2 a.m.
On 04/17/2009 02:34 AM, Ian Weller wrote:
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 05:36:15PM +0200, Max Spevack wrote:
> Why don't we start laying stuff out with good photos that we have now,
> and simply add to it after Berlin? We don't have to put everything on
> hold just because FUDCon Berlin will show us some new pictures, right?
>
As far as I'm concerned we're still in that stage where we want mockups
of page styles. I'll ping the art list again.
I saw no complaints after the first round of mockups:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Picture_book_mockups
It seems like the people were happy overall with the layout and we may
have to get only the special pages (titles, TOC, introduction...) which
will follow the same concept anyway.
--
nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/
photography: http://photoblog.nicubunu.ro/
my Fedora stuff: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/
1:57 a.m.
On 04/16/2009 06:36 PM, Max Spevack wrote:
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Nicu Buculei wrote:
> We can postpone the book for two months
Why don't we start laying stuff out with good photos that we have now,
and simply add to it after Berlin? We don't have to put everything on
hold just because FUDCon Berlin will show us some new pictures, right?
I believe if we make a push for photos, it would be reasonably easy to
gather enough images (getting the release forms is the hard part) -
after all we need only about 60 images... arguably we may have at least
one third of them already submitted.
--
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photography: http://photoblog.nicubunu.ro/
my Fedora stuff: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/
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