Great article. I love the concept of short projects. My maxim for 2024 is to "create" in preference to "consume" and short projects are great for just exercising your creative muscles.
No but... I've explored A LOT of various publishing services running the gamut of products and processes. We'll have a lot of stuff regarding books from various services at various quality levels all the way through handmade books coming up asap but it takes A LOT of time to sort through testing, etc, etc, etc.
One item of note re: a lot of similar products all under the umbrella of "lay flat" books... I have very mixed feelings about a lot of "middle of the road" products that offer very similar binding methods but very different printing processes. In general, all of those products are not cheap per copy and have not much or no discount for multiple copies. I am withholding judgement but generally, I would tend to pay $300 or $400 for the very premium product that uses true fine art materials and processes vs the $200 range for a similar or identical binding that uses the typical print-on-demand HP indigo process. Way more on that to come. I kind of touched on the why of it in this article in an oblique way.
Great article. I love the concept of short projects. My maxim for 2024 is to "create" in preference to "consume" and short projects are great for just exercising your creative muscles.
Absolutely!!! keep us informed how that progresses for you. We can be your "accountability partner" which everyone needs!!! ;-}
No but... I've explored A LOT of various publishing services running the gamut of products and processes. We'll have a lot of stuff regarding books from various services at various quality levels all the way through handmade books coming up asap but it takes A LOT of time to sort through testing, etc, etc, etc.
One item of note re: a lot of similar products all under the umbrella of "lay flat" books... I have very mixed feelings about a lot of "middle of the road" products that offer very similar binding methods but very different printing processes. In general, all of those products are not cheap per copy and have not much or no discount for multiple copies. I am withholding judgement but generally, I would tend to pay $300 or $400 for the very premium product that uses true fine art materials and processes vs the $200 range for a similar or identical binding that uses the typical print-on-demand HP indigo process. Way more on that to come. I kind of touched on the why of it in this article in an oblique way.