Op de rand van een fotoboek (On the brink of a photobook)

Last year a discussion was going on on prices of photo books in
the Dutch press. "Too expensive" according photographers and
book-buyers; publishers protested. The author relates of the
making and his publishing of a semi-scientific book, reporting
an Dutch expedition to the Antarctic, illustrated by a.o.
panoramic photographs of Fred Hoogervorst. Some numbers given:
estimated impression 2-3000 ex., no enumeration for the authors,
""a launching customer'' (that bought a fair amount of the book
for their relations), some subventions in a rather irregular
way, making a fair price of 40 Dutch guilders (c. $ 22.50), but
if one would make a real price it would have cost some 70 Dutch
guilders (c. US$ 40).


Citaten:
Wiese, K. a.o.; Op de Rand van Antartica (1992)