I would also go paperback it seems to be conciderally more affordable. However it seems to have a bad habbit of falling appart.
2009/1/16 Ian Weller <ianwel...@gmail.com> > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:47:20PM -0800, Doug Berry wrote: > > Hey Community, > > > > Sorry I did not get back sooner. My friend at > > LSI called my cell phone -- I was waiting for > > an email. Did not check my messages until today. > > > > The gist of what she said is that we can indeed > > do a hard cover full color book, but we would > > have to do so using off-set printing. > > > > And she could not give a cost estimate, because > > the cost would depend on how much color and the > > degree of difficulty for the printer in setting > > up the book. > > > > Off-set would probably create a much better > > looking book, as far as image quality goes. > > It is the industry standard for printing high > > quality books. > > > > But using off-set, each color page would > > require that four separate plates would have > > to be made to produce a color image. Blue, red, > > yellow, and black is the way they used to describe > > it, but now it is CMYK (short for cyan, magenta, > > yellow, and key (black) We could, however, use > > a mixture of b&w and color pages. Then we would pay > > less for the b&w pages that don't have color on them. > > > > Still, since we are not driven to make a > > huge profit off of each book, we could adjust > > the book price to allow for the additional > > printing costs. > > > With the current state of the economy and everything I want to make > these books as affordable as possible to the consumers. > > I think paperback with color pages is the way to go. But we can vote or > whatever on that later. > > More importantly, we need to decide the requirements for photos in the > book. Nicu, can you help us out on that? > > Also I'm getting prepared on how tos on uploading photos to the wiki, > release forms, etc. Once that's ready to roll, we'll have a process > worked out for contributing your photos and stories to the book. > > -- > Ian Weller <ianwel...@gmail.com> http://ianweller.org > GnuPG fingerprint: E51E 0517 7A92 70A2 4226 B050 87ED 7C97 EFA8 4A36 > "Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet." > ~ Douglas Adams > > -- > Fedora-marketing-list mailing list > Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list > -- Keiran Smith - Fedora Ambassador / BugZapper - <af...@fedoraproject.org> - Free Software Foundation Associate - <keiran.sm...@member.fsf.org>
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