PRINT ON DEMAND

Book Publishing - Short run (print on demand) Want to print 50 books? How about 100? Don't have the budget to print 500 or 1,000 books? No problem! Focus Publishing has teamed with local printers and binderies to utilize the best digital printing technology that can deliver extremely high quality printing on the same paper we would use for a longer run book. Not only that, but we can offer you as many shapes and sizes of your book as you can imagine - anywhere from a small 6 x 6 square book, a standard 8 x 10 size to a extra large 12 x 18 landscape book! Not only that, but our print quality can beat all other PoD companies. Blurb and Lulu consistently have produced poor quality books as you can see in several internet forums located here and here.

We went to 4 other popular websites that photographers use for print on demand books: Blurb, Lulu, SharedInk and MyPublisher. We compared apples to apples as closely as we could: 100 copies of a standard sized book, printed in 4 Color, 94 pages long plus a dust jacket or soft cover. We asked for the premium paper for no branding logos to be placed inside or outside of our book. We asked for an ISBN, a barcoded label, Amazon.com listings plus their own special online bookstore and editorial services. Although we don't currently offer any software to upload your books, we offer a very simple process for you to send us your images and we guarantee you'll receive a digital PDF of your entire book within 48 hours after we receive payment of your order. See for yourself as to why Focus Publishing Print on Demand offers the best value for the price. We compared them with the options available with Focus for free and here's what we came up with:

What's also great about printing your book through Focus Publishing is that once your book is printed, no matter how large of a quantity of books, you can market these books through the pages of Focus Magazine which reaches nearly 30,000 collectors and enthusiasts of photography. Nearly all of our readers spend their money on books of fine art photography and use Focus Magazine as a resource to find out the latest news, trends and information on collecting photography. We can offer you marketing and advertising services that reach the people you'll want to promote your book to once it's complete.

If you're thinking about printing a book of photography this year, you can't afford not to hire Focus Publishing as your resource to print, market and distribute the highest quality book of photography. Why wait? E-Mail us with the following information at pod@focuspublishing.net:

Name of photographer/gallery/organization, Address, City, State/Province, Zip/Postal Code, Country (if not USA), E-Mail address, phone number and website.

Title of book

Number of pages

Size of book (W" x H")

Number of images

Number of copies requested (minimum 10, maximum 400)

Type of cover (hardcover or softcover)

Please make sure you have all of the text for your book written. This includes Title Page, Copyright Page (we will provide the ISBN) Introduction, Artist Statement, Acknowledgements, Dedication and any information you want on the flaps if you choose a hardcover + dust jacket. Also, let us know if you want stamping on the hard cover ($500 extra). All text will be edited for grammar at absolutely no charge to you.

If you are designing the book on your own, please contact us at the E-Mail address listed above and we'll give you information on how to create your final PDF to send to us.

If you are not designing your book on your own, please make sure all color images are CMYK and all neutral tone black and white images are grayscale. If the images are toned black and white (warm or cold tone) please let us know and we'll inform you how to proceed with your color conversion. Make sure all images are 300 dpi, TIFF files. JPGs are accepted, but will result in lower quality reproduction than TIFF files.

Next upload all of your images to our ftp site (ftp.photoconnoisseur.net, username: focus@photoconnoissuer.net, password: pumpkin)

Create a text file with all of the captions for the images matching the file names and the sequence you are uploading your files in. We will design the book around the sequence of images you upload. And that's it! 2 business days later, you'll have a PDF of your entire book! Turn around time for a printed book is usually less than a week and we work with all of the leading national and international shipping and freight companies to get you the best rate for shipping. Don't wait! Contact us today! pod@focuspublishing.net