Zethril's Posts
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Being charged a premium for not advertising for Blurb
General Interest
Gareth, No offense, but the point we are making is that the charge should be abolished. It is ridiculous and greedy. The premium price we have to pay for these books makes it hard enough to even think about making a profit without being charged so we do not have to do your advertising for you. |
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Being charged a premium for not advertising for Blurb
General Interest
Steve! That is a very good point. A simple charge to remove their blatant advertising and from then on the normal book cost. Seriously, it is hard enough to make a profit, when you have to mark up an already retial price on your book; $2.00 is a significant amount when you are lucky to make $3 to $5 per book and still stay even a little realistic on pricing the book. I understand that you will always pay more for lower quantities. Once (and if) your book takes off, then you can start buying your books in volume and shift over to a a printer with realisitic volume pricing. Unfortunately you have to start somewhere and it is a tough road getting a book on the market. |
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Being charged a premium for not advertising for Blurb
General Interest
I just got around to reading/finding out that there is a premium that has to be paid if you do not wish to provide free advertising for Blurb when having your book printed. Does anyone else find this offensive? Blurb is a printer, not a publisher; they do not provide ISBN nor bar code. They are a printer and those of us that intend to have our own ISBN numbers are actually the publisher. Being charged to have them remove their logo would be like going to your local Kinko’s or private offset printer and being told that they are going to charge you extra to not have them advertise their service on your printed items. That is absurd and you wouldn’t stand for it. I would like to know exactly why Blurb thinks they are any different. It does not cost them any more to not include their logo, their FREE advertisement in our publication. I know, the typical response to this will be, if you don’t like it then don’t use the service. But the point is that it is not right. If this post does not get deleted please respond if you have similar feelings. Thanks. |
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Photoshopped Pics Not Showing Through
Book Design and Imaging
No offense but layers are a little irrelevant since Photoshop will not save as a jpeg if the image has layers, the only option for saving a jpeg with layers is JPEG 2000. You can, however, save for web if the image has layers. Photoshop will simply flatten the image automatically when doing a save for web. I asked earlier about which way the image was saved spcifically because you want to use "save as JPEG" for printing and not "save for web". |
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JPEG 2000
BookSmart
Not many suppot JPEG 2000. I can tell you though, that as long as you have your image at a resolution of 300 ppi and save it as a JPEG at quality setting of 10 you should be fine. This is the requirements used by all the labs that I use for prints. It should be fine for Blurb as well. |
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Photoshopped Pics Not Showing Through
Book Design and Imaging
Did you do a "save as" jpeg or "save for web"? |
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