Another Book

Fastback.com really does seem to offer the best quality and best choices and they are serious about bookmaking in the sense that they tell you not to use JPGs and to use TIFFs instead and they give you all the info you need as far as color profiles, calibration etc. to use. In short, they do it the way it should be done. They offer the nice "butterfly flap" on the softcover which I like. And they've got a small gallery / office in NY. Only problem - pricing. What else.

Here's a link to the sample pricing.

So if I make a hardcover with 40 images and some text pages, cover, dust jacket etc. and it costs me $125 to make. What in the world am I going to do with it? Pass it around at parties?

Just as a note - in going through all the reviews - the most horror stories were about MyPublisher.com

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Snapfish:
File this under the category of "I'll give it a try."

Eugene sent me an email with some new stuff that Snapfish was doing bookwise. I logged in and I put together a book called, Central Park - in about an hour. I gave them 300 dpi rgb jpgs saved at max. res., and hope for the best.

It costs about $20 for hardcover book with 20 pages. 9 x 11 landscape. The program for uploading, and placing the images was straight-forward.

I have absolutely no idea whether this book will be as crappy as the Lulu b&w book I did, but even if it is - it will be crappy in hardcover (smiley face).

They charged me NY Sales Tax. And shipping was - well put it this way, it began as $20 and ended up as $29 for the book. I need to see if there's a way for someone else to buy it from their site at a markup - but I don't think there is.

There is a 25% discount if you order more than one.

Oh, one more thing. They say they will ship within 2-3 business days. If true, that is amazing.

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That is amazing. Book has been shipped. (2 days to produce).