A Better Tomorrow Book
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- gramme0
What if this became a Kickstarter project? Everyone involved could be compensated, proceeds could still go to Patrick's foundation, and there would be no need to dumb the book down into a Blurb-style publication. It could still be done the right way.
- By everyone involved, I mean everyone involved in designing and producing the book.gramme
- great find mattjaylarson
- that's good.invisiblechamber
- OSFA0
I think they're playing with demand here. You know, when Walmart keeps all their Elmos on Chirstmas eve to make it a hot item and have lines around the building waiting for it and wiling to pay whatever....
haha, jk. I would love to see this happen... anyway! Thanks to all that spent time and effort.!!
- acrossthesea0
The PDF idea sounds good.
- bigtrickagain0
a blurb book costs *nothing* to put up there, and as jaylarson says, you barely have to change the format. or you can just import it into a larger size, white space be damned. print quality is decent.
something is better than nothing.
i've wanted to buy this book for some time, and it looks like i may not get the chance to...
- dude. seriously.digdre
- blurb = shite quality...sorry, but that isn't what I envisioned eithermonospaced
- gramme0
Disappointed.
- nobody cares if you are disappointeddigdre
- dude, digdre, chillmonospaced
- i can't chill with you guys arounddigdre
- So why don't you leave instead, digdre?gramme
- jaylarson0
what was the page count up to? blurb has a 8x10. there would be hardly any changing of format. could keep it really. this is better than nothing, but not ideal as the profit would be nil-ish. but i still want a book with all the cool shit in there.
- bigtrickagain0
christ, do you know how easy it is to make a blurb book? it is *so* goddam easy - you can convert straight from pdf or from jpgs.
you can get this done in like 3 hours if you have all the files.
- format.
many pages -> price
=/= patrick o'briendigdre - not the best print quality eithermonospaced
- format.
- digdre0
someone make a PDF out of it.
put it on the site, change the site a bit.
ask 15$ to donate before downloading but not necessary.how bout that.
no? ok. go fuck yourselves then.- there are only a couple of "someones" out there that have all the files and CAN do thismonospaced
- yea. I know.
Hold on. i KNOW THATdigdre - Sorry,I misunderstood. I thought maybe you were more involved than I thought.monospaced
- i was the brain behind this whole thing.
just kidding, mike and rene were.digdre
- invisiblechamber0
my contribution is exact the size of the current layout but i'm willing to rebuild it in another size if it helps. sure we want it.
- bod or pdf download all ok - just don't let it vanish totally.invisiblechamber
- tank0
Mike & Rene, thanks for the effort. I think a lot people don't know how much time you spent on it. To bad it went wrong in the last yard.
- and Marko and Uncle and Timdigdre
- I put a lot of time into my entry and was really looking forward to this. I think a lot of people did. QBNers worked hard on this.monospaced
- this, not just the people compiling and trying to strike a deal with publishers. I still donated $monospaced
- you were not in it anyway.digdre
- I had emails stating the contrary, digdre. My name was also on the preliminary cover.monospaced
- we deleted you after some internal discussions. version3 aswell.digdre
- why? why didn't you let me know?monospaced
- we just didn't felt like itdigdre
- i'm fucking with you. nothing what I said was true.digdre
- lolok_not_ok
- monospaced0
le sigh
- previous0
Mike pulled a rasko
- digdre0
fuck it.
just donate to pof
- neue75_bold0
not huge but it wasn't proportionate, so enough to change the grid radically, all text would've needed to be re-typeset, full bleed images were cropped badly, etc...
- jaylarson0
how extreme was the resizing?
- neue75_bold0
I have no idea what's happening anymore, haven't heard from Rene in ages, he had a lot of shit going down...
I've been flat out, since I relocated last November and when things were pretty much done we were asked to resize the book, I said no, we couldn't as it was all pretty much finished at the original size and to resize would have meant going back to people to resupply files and it was hard enough making everything look good the first time around...
I've also been pretty much done with this place and after putting so many hours into this thing already, I can honestly say that I'm done with it..
Last I heard the publisher may do the resize for us, but there were some other things that needed decided upon first, that was about 3 – 4 months ago..
It was a great idea/gesture and we've almost seen it through, but at this stage, I'd be a happy to hand over the files at some point when I have the time and headspace to get it all together and someone else can deal with it...
- Are you really gone?MrOneHundred
- I was never really here/there...neue75_bold
- hope you stay here at least... you're a quality chap ;)OSFA
- utopian0
DIGRE, CREATE AN ONLINE VERSION WITH A DONATIONS FEATURE FOR THE PATRICK OBRIEN FOUNDATION.
- < it could get a lot of traffic and hopefully people would donate. etc.akrokdesign
- i don't have the book..digdre
- jaylarson0
One month bump. Good morning. Anyone on this? Wasn't iDN in the mix because Gestalten was too expensive?