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D Deckhand_Davy Member The Texas Lagoons Joined: Mar 02, 2008 Posts: 84	D Deckhand_Davy Posted posted on Fri, Apr 4, 2008 3:01 PM I can contribute photographs from our outdoor tiki bar once it's finished. Both me and my brother are into photography, so the pics should be of some decent quality. Also, I think I have a great idea. We can make our own 'Tiki Central's Personal Tiki Bars and Digs' book using our home bar pics...it's actually possible. This can be a profit or non-profit book and sold at a 'cost price' from blurb dot com (an online 'create-your-own-book' store with full editing and creativity over it's content..basically, you can write your own book using professional grade hard back binding and printing for cheaps, software is downloaded for free from the site...$12-$22 bux average per book, no minimum purchase necessary). So here's how I imagine it should work..of course I'm sure there's a better way, but this is on the fly for now :P Contributes home bar pics along with any tid-bits of interesting info from their trophy pieces of tiki to the forum...we'll make a special thread for it. Organizers/volunteers will take the images and descriptions and clean them up, spell check, post edit etc(I can volunteer...I have some design and art skills at davidzamora dot com :) The images and descriptions will be uploaded into blurb dot com's software for final design editing. Once finished, we can post pre-publishing images of the book on the forums to get everyones thoughts and opinions. Once any changes have been made, we publish it. Here's an example price from their website: An 8x10 inch book (soft cover) runs 21.95 with a page count of 41-80 pages, hardcover is $34.95 I selected 41-80 pages because I'm not sure if we'll have over that many pages of bar pics, but I could be wrong. They also have 10x8 landscape sizes, 7x7 sizes and a couple more I think...lots of pricing variations depending on needs. To be honest, this is something I would be serious about doing and would definitely pay for...opinions? Here's an example of a blurb book I took from flickr Pretty nice, huh? . o .. o . o .o [] _\|o_o_o """"""""""""""/ ^^^^^^...^^^.^^^ [ Edited by: Deckhand_Davy 2008-04-04 15:06 ]

I can contribute photographs from our outdoor tiki bar once it's finished. Both me and my brother are into photography, so the pics should be of some decent quality.

Also, I think I have a great idea. We can make our own 'Tiki Central's Personal Tiki Bars and Digs' book using our home bar pics...it's actually possible. This can be a profit or non-profit book and sold at a 'cost price' from blurb dot com (an online 'create-your-own-book' store with full editing and creativity over it's content..basically, you can write your own book using professional grade hard back binding and printing for cheaps, software is downloaded for free from the site...$12-$22 bux average per book, no minimum purchase necessary).

So here's how I imagine it should work..of course I'm sure there's a better way, but this is on the fly for now :P

Contributes home bar pics along with any tid-bits of interesting info from their trophy pieces of tiki to the forum...we'll make a special thread for it.
Organizers/volunteers will take the images and descriptions and clean them up, spell check, post edit etc(I can volunteer...I have some design and art skills at davidzamora dot com :)
The images and descriptions will be uploaded into blurb dot com's software for final design editing.
Once finished, we can post pre-publishing images of the book on the forums to get everyones thoughts and opinions.
Once any changes have been made, we publish it.

Here's an example price from their website:

An 8x10 inch book (soft cover) runs 21.95 with a page count of 41-80 pages, hardcover is $34.95
I selected 41-80 pages because I'm not sure if we'll have over that many pages of bar pics, but I could be wrong. They also have 10x8 landscape sizes, 7x7 sizes and a couple more I think...lots of pricing variations depending on needs.

To be honest, this is something I would be serious about doing and would definitely pay for...opinions?

Here's an example of a blurb book I took from flickr

Pretty nice, huh?

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^^^^^^...^^^.^^^

[ Edited by: Deckhand_Davy 2008-04-04 15:06 ]

Post #371621 by Deckhand_Davy on Fri, Apr 4, 2008 3:01 PM