Someone want to compile a little nice coffee table book of great dama moments in last 10 years? Would love to have something like this... I'm coming up now on about 9 years of dama and I know there were some before me so I'm sure the photo journalism runs about 10 years deep in the contemporary dama scene and of course older in the original japan scene.
We could collect from the community and make it available for purchase in the soon-to-be-launched DS store @BallardKROM
This sounds like a great idea. I'm imagining it being like the hard back books my Gran used to have under the coffee table, usually of Scotland! It would be cool to show the year, say 2005, then players at this time in USA,Europe, Japan and photos of the current at the time damas they were using. Then move it along through the years to the present day with the multitudes of players around the world and damas etc
What would you guys pay for a classic coffee-table book? I promise DS will put one together by years end.
To be completely honest. 15$ like max. If it's crazy high quality than maybe more. But at that point I probably wouldn't be as interested.
I did some e-shopping and it seems like most "coffee table" quality books run around $30-35 to make. That's 12" x 9", or slightly larger than standard printer paper. Now if you bought in bulk, I bet you could get it down to $15-20 or so. But then shipping. Thinking like a limited run of maybe 50-100 could be wise.
Again, this would last longer than any dama. Take preorders first to get a good base number of members that are more than interested.
Hmm yea, @Cheech_Sander with those sort of numbers for production cost, pre-orders might be a decent way to gauge interest (though people are usually sheepish on buying in to pre-orders, unless its something they really want). Even then... I'm not very confident you'll sell 50 of them for that price (on my end, $40 USD + ship = ~$65-70 CAD). Maybe 10-20 pieces, but even then I doubt they'll move fast. I think that an established team or brand could maaybe swing this (like, if KUSA released a photobook celebrating 10 years of business, with epic shots of the team, damas, travels, behind-the-scenes, etc), but I think it'll be harder for a purely community-driven version of the project to bring in sales. Realistically... what are the DIY options?