自出版摄影书册展示

希望所有关心、想做或实际在做自出版影集或杂志的人，所有想做自己摄影书的人，都关心这个帖子；让更多的人（如果不是全世界的话）尽快看到、可能购买你的书。

 
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看摄影博客的人，很多都知道Jörg Colberg和他著名的Conscientious博客。最近几天他推出了一个新的博客The Independent Photo Book，专门罗列自出版的摄影画册和杂志。 （新博客在blogspot上，需要翻墙）

Jörg Colberg相信并知道，有大量独立出版的摄影画册或杂志存在，但实在难找，哪怕在纽约的专门书店。他觉得就像八年前他刚开始在网上搜寻摄影作品那会儿一样。所以觉得最好的办法就是建一个专门的博客。他和Mrs Deane博客的Hester就搞了一个。

这个博客思路很简单：你把画册或杂志的相关信息寄给他们，他们来张贴。不做选择，只要你是独立出版的摄影画册或杂志。他强调，这个博客不仅要让人们知道某画册某杂志，而且要让人们可以购买到。如果无法够买（包括无法复制的手工书、已经售完的印刷书等），他们不会贴。你必须要提供可以网上购买的链接和页面。他还强调，可以在普通书店购买到的画册杂志，不属于这个博客的范围。（后面会贴提交信息的要求）

下面是Jörg Colberg的贴文，经他允许全文转载：

I’ve noted that information about independently produced photo books and zines (publications by small publishers or self-published work that is not available via Amazon.com or chain book shops) is often hard to come by. When I go to shops specializing in photo books – such as Dashwood in NYC – the sheer number of such publications I have never heard about always makes me a little sad, because I know there are so many publications I never heard about.

(updated below)

This situation is very similar to the one I was in almost eight years ago when I started to look for photography online. Of course, that means that the solution to this problem is obvious: There just needs to be a blog that lists independently produced photo books or zines. Enters The Independent Photo Book, a blog I started with Hester of Mrs Deane fame.

The idea behind The Independent Photo Book is simple: You email us the information about your independent photo book or zine – following the guide lines outlined on the blog – and we’ll create a post with the information about it. No selection – we post whatever we get, as long as it’s an independent photo book or magazine.

Let me stress that the idea behind the blog is to allow people to not only find out about the book/zine, but also to buy it. So if your book/zine can’t be bought, we won’t list it. And of course it’s great if your book or zine can be bought at Walter’s Mom and Pop Bookshop in St. Middleofnowhere, but that doesn’t help anyone – so you need to send us the link to a page where people can buy the book online.

So the idea behind The Independent Photo Book is not only to advertize independently produced photo books and zines, but also to let people know where/how to get them. In other words, if someone sees a book or zine s/he likes it has to take that person only a couple of mouse clicks to order it.

Of course, both Hester and I are very busy, but we’ll do our best to list books/zines as they come in (so if you stick with our specifications you’ll be saving us time and work). But at times, a little of patience might be needed.

Also, there are probably a zillion things that can be improved, but Hester and I thought it’s important to get the ball rolling, and then we take it from there. Be a bit patient, and in no time there’ll be a great place to look for all those photo books and zines you didn’t even know they existed.

Update (7 Jan 2010): It’s probably important to make this clear – the new blog is centered on solving some of the distribution problems that independent book/zine publishers have. That’s why publications that can be bought on Amazon or in regular book shops are excluded, and that’s also why books that can be bought via Blurb’s shop will not be listed. But if you print your own book (or have it printed) and then have boxes of them in your home, trying to get them out – that’s the situation The Independent Photo Book is intended to address. Of course, we’ll see how this all works out, at this stage, nothing has been finalized, yet.

Update (8 Jan 2010): As you can see, there already are various books listed, all of which you can buy – and some were already bought (as we were told). So if you have an independently produced book or zine to sell send in your info!

下面是提交的规则和要求，也经作者同意转载。不译了，免得多生歧义。如果你英文不行，反正得找人帮忙。需要我帮些什么忙，尽管给我写信商量（不过，你对书的说明文字，我本人肯定无能翻译。但你可以提出来，也许看这个博客的其他人愿意帮忙。这不应该算个大障碍）。

Generally:
- We only accept announcements about existing print books or zines (strictly no fundraisers)
- At the time of the listing, the book/zine has to be available (no “sold out”) so people can actually order it online
- no repeat announcements or “special offers” or “30% off” sale announcements
- we only list books or zines that cannot be bought via Amazon.com (or any other Amazon or internet book seller), or actual (chain) book shop – specialty/photo shops such as Schaden or Dashwood, of course, are perfectly fine
- no Blurb books, since those can be found easily via Blurb’s website

Submit:
- Title of publication
- Name of artist(s) (if applicable)
- additional contributors (if applicable)
- Type of publication/Description (“book”, “zine”, “box of prints with zine”, whatever else)
- Number of pages, size (both metric and non-metric)
- Edition size (if applicable)
- type of printing (offset, digital, … – if applicable or desired)
- Price
- Two or three sentence description (strictly not longer)
- one image to post
- Website link to more detailed description/info about the book/zine (the website MUST have some English text; and it MUST be obvious from the site how to order the book)
- Web link where the book/zine can be ordered

email submissions to either
jmcolberg at gmail.com
or
beikey at gmail.com

下面是网站上贴出的书册拷屏。点击看大图。注意它们的说明文字，长度并不像规定的那么死。

 
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做了书焐在家里干嘛？不就是发个Email嘛。