This year I have had the time to get out and about and take some fun photos, we moved to Rhode Island - a whole 30 minutes from our old locale in CT, and the sceneryin front of our house is great. Anyway, I’ve had the opportunity to exploreand take some cool photosand I’d love to put them into a fun coffee table book. I’m looking for a bound book, not spiral bound, I’m looking for quality. Price isn’t a factor, I figure +/- $200 bucks is fair. So I’m willing to drop a little coin on a photobook that people can pick up when they come over and flip through.
Does anyone have eny experience with this?
Internet based is best, no?
Are there companies that represent an industry standard? If so which ones?
What is the turn around time for say 50 pages/bound?
I just bought a cookbook from LuLu publishing, and it was VERY nicely done, puyll of high quality pictures. You can go into their site www.lulu.com and find out exactly what the book will cost you to make. Good luck!
Thanks…I wasn’t using a tripod for those…I can straighten them in InDesign. We are about to get pummeled by a snow storm this afternoon, so I can play today and al weekend!
I’ve never made one myself, but a coworker recently recommended Mixbook. She made a beautiful 50-page hardcover book for her parents’ anniversary for around $75. She said that some of the other sites (Snapfish, etc.) are somewhat cheaper and still good quality, but that Mixbook allowed greater creative control over the layout, color scheme, background images, photo cropping, etc.
I can’t vouch for their photobooks but Mpix is where I order all my prints for framing and I’ve been really happy with the quality of their prints. But it looks like they have soft cover, hard cover, and suede cover books.