I created and self-published New York Night Calendar (through Lulu.com) but it's not available to public yet as I just bought a copy for myself. Should get it in a week or so. On screen, it actually looks pretty good. We'll see.
I probably have two or three shots that don't exactly belong in there - the idea being the beauty of New York at night and all that. I tried to picture someone looking at the same picture for a month.
There really were no apparent hiccups and you get to look through a "print-ready" PDF. The thing I wasn't sure about was whether I should let them do any sharpening for their printer - do they do any? Or is that something I should do? I basically gave them basic sharpening to make up for the scan or the digital capture but not for the output device (as I usually do at least a second sharpening for the inkjet or the web).
My piece of the action for each calendar is about $10 - which considering that if they're doing the packaging / selling / production isn't too bad - is it for a $24 calendar?
I think that's the price I settled on. If the results are decent, I'll do some revising - and make it available for the public. It would be great if it worked out because I have a lot of ideas for calendars. The next one would probably be New York Subway Shots.
Then the Bronx calendar etc. In other words, in that market I could make niche calendars rather than what I'm selling on my web site which is mostly living room prints. I'd love to do a Political Protest calendar as well.
