At 06:08 05 08 2009, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
On Tue, August 4, 2009 13:41, lookaround360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I'm thinking I should make my work
available "pay what you think it's worth" - Is
there a marketing term for that?
In software, that's the classic "shareware"
model. (not cripppleware, not demoware :-)).
An alternative may be to create a book of your
photographs, and place it on one of the on-line print-on-demand websites
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Print_on_demand
Even though some may just download the work,
there will likely be others who prefer to
purchase a nicely printed and bound version.
As an example of this, refer to Marco Cantù, who
has written a series of books on Delphi (a
compiler -- a computer program for writing
computer programs). Here's a link to some of
Marco's comments on the process of print-on-demand (scroll down the page a bit)
http://www.marcocantu.com/dh2009
Here's another example from the field of programming
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/eckel/
Bruce Eckel has been releasing his books on the
internet for years, receiving corrections and
suggestions from readers, and releasing updates.
Printed and bound versions are also available in
bricks-and-mortar bookshops, with an additional included material on CD.
I'm not able to rediscover the reference, but
there was a warning that not all the
print-on-demand services are equal. There have
been problems with proper registration of the
content on the page. A workaround suggested was
to leave generous margins, including the gutter
for binding. This warning may, however, be due to
poor quality control at a particular bricks-and-mortar print works.
--
&i (:
