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Equipment & Techniques => Pro Business Discussion => Topic started by: petermarrek on December 25, 2012, 01:56:52 pm

Title: Photobooks
Post by: petermarrek on December 25, 2012, 01:56:52 pm
This is probably a well-done topic but does anyone have direct and personal experience with selfpublished books such as Blurb or other companies like them? Peter
Title: Re: Photobooks
Post by: SecondFocus on December 26, 2012, 10:59:15 pm
I have used Blurb. I can say that I found that my photographs displayed better than I expected in the books I have done. I have also found their customer service to be great. I had one book where the binding failed. They had me send a photo of it and promptly send me out a replacement, no questions asked. Also I have seen lots and lots of other Blurb books, all impressive. It would be nice if prices were less but the quality is there.
Title: Re: Photobooks
Post by: Mike Guilbault on January 04, 2013, 10:26:34 pm
I did one book with Blurb and was quite pleased.  When I used to shoot a lot of weddings I used AsukaBook.  Much more expensive, but so was the quality... and more options. 
Title: Re: Photobooks
Post by: Iluvmycam on February 25, 2013, 02:51:04 pm
I am self publishing, but with short run printers. (200 - 400 copies)

Still learning ins and outs.
Title: Re: Photobooks
Post by: digitaldog on February 25, 2013, 03:23:26 pm
The first book I had printed out of Lightroom to Blurb was pretty bad. But I had one printed last week, with many of the same test images and it was quite good.
Title: Re: Photobooks
Post by: Graham Clark on February 26, 2013, 02:01:56 am
Hello Peter,

Every year I print a small book and send it to galleries as an update token. In years prior I've experimented with most of the major online printers, and this year I did a run of 200x 24-page medium softcover books through Aperture. You can see images of the quality here (http://www.grahamclarkphoto.com/2013-book/).

Pros

Cons

Graham