Spring Is Calling
Get up for some spring photographs
Landscape, Nature, Flowers. Spring is on the go providing great opportunities for outdoor photographs.
The Anonymous Book Buyer
Book sales on blurb could afford more transparency
I recently published my first photo book with blurb. I really like their service, it is easy to use and features true print on demand for everyone. These two features along with the good book and photo print quality convinced me particularly to use blurb for photo books.
There is one thing missing though: It is not possible to determine who ordered a photo book. I can imagine that many authors are on blurb who sell tons of books. For such an author it might not be that much of interest to find out who actually bought a book.
In my case however it was merely a gimmick to have the opportunity to sell a photo book to others than the thought to create the next best seller. So, in other words, there are not many sales but for those few I can not determine whether or not I know some of the buyers :-(
blurb support confirmed that this is not possible which is a little strange as technically to buy a book a customer needs to provide his or her name, so it should be on record. Anyway, not a big deal but hopefully blurb will offer that information to authors in future.
I still like the service a lot and will produce more photo books with them.
There is one thing missing though: It is not possible to determine who ordered a photo book. I can imagine that many authors are on blurb who sell tons of books. For such an author it might not be that much of interest to find out who actually bought a book.
In my case however it was merely a gimmick to have the opportunity to sell a photo book to others than the thought to create the next best seller. So, in other words, there are not many sales but for those few I can not determine whether or not I know some of the buyers :-(
blurb support confirmed that this is not possible which is a little strange as technically to buy a book a customer needs to provide his or her name, so it should be on record. Anyway, not a big deal but hopefully blurb will offer that information to authors in future.
I still like the service a lot and will produce more photo books with them.
The home for my photography just got better.Idyllic Sunday
A day at the local oasis
The first real spring day this year brought us to Liederbachtal
No Party Tonight
Not the weather for a spring festival
I was planning to go down to the spring festival in town this weekend for fun and photographs.
Waiting For Time
The shop to get it at when time is needed
A moment in time while life moves on around.
Matching The Real Colour
The way to proper monitor calibration
To produce identical output of photographs on different media a colorimeter is essential.
It Never Rains In...
Out in the rainy streets of Frankfurt
For a while already I wanted to make photographs in the city during rain.
Google Analytics Recommended
Powerful web site statistics made easy
Just a short blog entry to recommend Google Analytics. I was reminded by an entry at Thomas Hawks blog that I heard about it already a while ago and always wanted to try it.
I finally installed what is needed, a short script call and now it works. Great tool to find out about the activities on your website. And the stat script entry does not influence load times in a noticeable manner.
Give it a try!
I finally installed what is needed, a short script call and now it works. Great tool to find out about the activities on your website. And the stat script entry does not influence load times in a noticeable manner.
Give it a try!