Photographers wanted for book project

Specs for Lone Wolf/WPO Wow! Photo Book
The is NO COST to PHOTOGRAPHERS
Note: All Terms and Conditions Herein Are Subject to Change.

Nuts and Bolts
The following with give you a nuts-and-bolts overview of what we have in mind for the WOW book:

The book will be 8.5 x 8.5.
It will be full, four color.
It will have a perfect bound paperback cover.
Photos used for actual inclusion should be CMYK, 300DPI, and 9x9. All photos must be digital, high-resolution files.
Featured photos will be given a full page for display. Photos that are not featured will be assigned roughly 50% of a page for display. In other words, some pages will have two photos on them and some will have only one. There will be a “Centerfold Section” for “Super Photos” where a page will contain a photograph and the opposing page will show a bio of the photographer. These will be limited in number.
On average, photographers will be allowed to have up to four photos in the book. More are not allowed because I want to give people who haven’t been published a fair shot of being in a real book, published by a real publisher, and marketed nationally and internationally.
Photos will be selected by the editorial board of Lone Wolf Enterprises, Ltd. and World Photographers Organization. Selections are final once photos pass quality control measures.
Price is to be determined.
Page count is estimated at around 300 pages. We may go as high as 400 pages, but full-color books are extremely expensive to publish and I want to keep the retail price at a viable point based on competitive research.
Book will be printed by Lightning Source
A partial list of US distributors includes Ingram, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Baker & Taylor. There are others and there are distributors set up for international sales. L L Bean is taking Maine Unseen to sell in their retail location and they have agreed to consider taking this book as well.
Contributors WILL NOT be paid. They will, however, be given full credit in captions below their photos and allowed to list their business, url, email address, and phone number. (Great advertising and terrific for credibility.)
Photographers retain copyright and all other rights, except those licensed for the use of their photos in this book, advertising material, and website display as marketing for the book.
If Photographers wish to buy copies of the book, they will be given a 25% discount off of the retail price and photographers may buy and resell books for their own purposes.

Subject Matter
Subject matter is limited, but not by much. We are not looking for wedding shots, advertising photos, or nude images. What we do want are OUTSTANDING photographs taken in the USA. This book will be somewhat of a where-to-go travel guide. Studio photos will be very limited. Otherwise, the images can be landscapes, nature, wildlife, macro, street photography, architectural photography, travel photography, lifestyle photography, and so forth.
The WOW fact is not limited to beautifully photos. It could be a photo similar to photo journalism work that has nothing to do with beauty, but it has to be awe inspiring.
Typical tourist photos will be rejected. Use your creative eye and mind to show us something special.

Deadline
There is no set deadline. Once we have enough suitable images the submissions will be halted and we will move toward production. This entire process is likely to take 6-12 months.

Property Releases
Property releases will have to be signed by photographers prior to publication of their work.

Advertisements and Advertorials
Paid advertisements and advertorials are not anticipated to be included. If they are used at all, they will be limited to appropriate topics, such as photographic services or lodging. The decision on advertising will be made once final production figures come into focus better. If used, ads will not look like ads, they will appear as interviews so that the book value is not cheapened.
An Example
To see an example of the type of book we are talking about, got to www.wpomembers.com. Click on the shopping button near the top right portion of the home pages. When the next page appears, click on bound books and you will see Maine Unseen. You can also see it at Amazon and many other places, but the descriptive text was not yet up on Amazon the last time I looked. We just published the book last month.

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