10-31-2013, 01:05 PM
Markus, simples: as Mike said you can't just take photos through display cases. It works, sometimes, and I've gotten pretty good at it using filters etc, but it's NOT the same as photographing an item under ideal circumstances. If I were going to try to sell RATers on a book about helmets and ask them somewhere between €50 and €100 for a copy, I'd want to make sure the images are very high quality. Hence it'll probably be necessary to have museum photographers do it for us, or to buy extant photographs from their archives.
Rich, here's an example, likely LOW, itemization, all in €:
Normally a publisher would add 40% as 'overhead' (there is work involved here if only in getting the rights for those photos, not to mention various smaller costs), which would take that to:
€61,250, or a unit price of €61.25. If you wanted to sell this at Amazon, you're looking at a list-price of €136 or about $180.... :woot:
Also, this would be one heavy mother of a book. Think €30 to ship a single copy from Europe to the US...
Rich, here's an example, likely LOW, itemization, all in €:
- text: 80,000 words @ 10cts: €8000 (boo ,slave labor!)
- photography: 250 photos at €100 each: €25000 (yes, there will be cheaper ones, but there'll be plenty that go into the €150-200 range too)
- proofreading: €1000
- layout: 250 pages at €15/page: €3750
- printing 1000 copies, hardback, nice paper: €6000 (more copies would drop the relative price considerably, but you'd have to sell them too...)
Normally a publisher would add 40% as 'overhead' (there is work involved here if only in getting the rights for those photos, not to mention various smaller costs), which would take that to:
€61,250, or a unit price of €61.25. If you wanted to sell this at Amazon, you're looking at a list-price of €136 or about $180.... :woot:
Also, this would be one heavy mother of a book. Think €30 to ship a single copy from Europe to the US...
