Chockstone Forum

      Sponsored By
      ROCK
   HARDWARE

Chockstone Photography

Australian Landscape Prints

Chockstone Forum - Crag & Route Beta

Crag & Route Beta

Area	Location	Sub Location	Crag	Links
VIC Arapiles	(General)	(General)	(General)	[ Arapiles Guide \| Arapiles Images ]

Topic Date User

New Arapiles Select Guide 11-Apr-2006 At 3:32:58 PM gtempest

Message

On 29/03/2006 Dr Box wrote:
>Hey simey, what sort of price do you think the guide will be??
>or is it too early to ask?
>coz as a poor uni student, cheaper would be good,
>but, if the price is lower (say$20-30) will it hinder the making of another
>quality quide?

Thanks Dr Box. This is a good question. At Open Spaces Books (the publishers of the Arapiles and Grampians Selected Climbs guides) we avoid printing our books outside of Australia. We could save around 20% on our printing costs by going to China but I like to keep entire print projects within Australia. This is not just because of any technical or quality issues, I also feel quite strongly about keeping Aussies in printing jobs. Producing a guide (especially ones as labor intensive as ours) is not cheap. The guides are printed on very high quality paper (partly recycled stock) and are all stitch bound. The new Arapiles guide will also be printed in full colour - another increase in costs. The other issue is that we print only a limited number. Obviously this will not be a Dan Brown best seller and our unit costs tend to be fairly high (and our profit margin fairly low). I suspect that the guide will sell for around $49. Considering that the VCC Mt Buffalo guide is retailing for $60.00 I feel this to be reasonable price. Perhaps Simey and I can provide Chockstone Forum members with a special pre-release price. Then again, maybe Simey will want to keep the cash to put towards his Nati Cafe.

Glenn