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May 5, 2009
I'm increasingly coming to see Flickr and its diverse groups as an digital archive composed of various photo streams. At the end of the day all you
have to show for their extensive work is a huge file of images.
How then do you move beyond the archive and the photo stream and the photoblog? How do you build on the community of photographers that gather around the different groups.
Gary Sauer-Thompson, painted twigs, Melbourne CBD, 2009
There are several pathways out from the digital archive of images. The most popular is the online magazine that is based on submissions. Another is online exhibitions done by the altfotnet.org group. The third is the digital book using Blurb or other self-publishing software such as Lulu. A review of the photobook publishers that one can use.
The publishers have software you can use, the books are professionally produced, and they give people the opportunity to create extremely small runs as the books are printed to order. Lulu, VioVio and Blurb offer you the option of selling your book creations online. With Blurb once you publish your book you only need to order one copy within the first 15 days for it to stay in the bookshop.
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