{"id":430,"date":"2007-01-09T12:04:17","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T19:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/2007\/01\/09\/lulu-book\/"},"modified":"2009-03-17T06:39:15","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T13:39:15","slug":"lulu-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/lulu-book\/","title":{"rendered":"lulu book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got my first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/\">lulu.com<\/a> published book in the mail yesterday. This is simply a test-work, an artist proof of sorts, so you won&#8217;t be able to find it in their database just yet.<\/p>\n<p>The proof is only 40 pages. I mostly wanted to get an idea of their colors, but also wanted to be aware of the texture of the paper, and overall format, before I move towards the final work, which will be somewhere between 400-700 pages. (Yeah, big book and also big window for size) Mostly because I haven&#8217;t yet compiled all the scans for the book, so I don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m working with yet. The first piece will sort of operate like a &#8216;volume one&#8217;, but will be unlabeled as such, in a series of continuing works.<\/p>\n<p>This is all a bit obtuse. Just you know that I think it&#8217;s great and that I highly recommend &#8211; as I had a talk last night with another artist &#8211; that artists use these <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Print_on_demand\">print-on-demand<\/a> (POD) services. With basic computer knowledge, and the ability to generate simple PDFs (a format that if it isn&#8217;t already is becoming more and more ubiquitous) means artists can &#8216;print&#8217; copies of their works without needing major financial investment (there is no &#8216;minimum print run&#8217; with PODs). These approaches are somewhat an extension of zine culture and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/2006\/11\/16\/art-and-zines\/\">artists are well-familiar with that medium<\/a>; essentially, there&#8217;s no reason <em>not to use<\/em> POD services for artists books!<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got my first lulu.com published book in the mail yesterday. This is simply a test-work, an artist proof of sorts, so you won&#8217;t be able to find it in their database just yet. The proof is only 40 pages. I mostly wanted to get an idea of their colors, but also wanted to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[413,414,1225],"series":[],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","tag-lulu","tag-pod-service","tag-work-in-progress"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-6W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3039,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/3039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}