ho_co Posted October 18, 2011 Share #1  Posted October 18, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) Blog  There is such a demand for my Leica Compendium book that a third printing is necessary. It will become available end November 2011 and is printed in very limited numbers.   Not much information there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted October 18, 2011 Posted October 18, 2011 Hi ho_co, Take a look here Third printing of Puts' Compendium announced. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
wilfredo Posted October 18, 2011 Share #2 Â Posted October 18, 2011 Tao of Leica? Is this another attempt to turn sales into a spiritual experience? The "Tao of Leica" is to recognize the "decisive moment" and snap the shutter. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
*j-w-m* Posted October 19, 2011 Share #3 Â Posted October 19, 2011 With "such a demand," why print in "very limited numbers???" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrism Posted October 19, 2011 Share #4 Â Posted October 19, 2011 I imagine it costs an arm and a leg to print - it's big and stuffed full of pictures. Mr Puts will have to pay for each print run then recoup the money, so I can understand he wouldn't want to have to pay for more copies than he can sell. It's an excellent resource, but I wish he had used an English-speaking proofreader before going to press. Â Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbretteville Posted October 19, 2011 Share #5 Â Posted October 19, 2011 Printing it is one thing, storing unsold copies is another challenge. He is doing this more or less as a one man operation. Carl Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
k-hawinkler Posted October 19, 2011 Share #6 Â Posted October 19, 2011 I am interested in buying a digital version. I don't need more paper. Â K-H. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest #12 Posted October 19, 2011 Share #7 Â Posted October 19, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) All three printings have been the "last." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roydonian Posted October 19, 2011 Share #8 Â Posted October 19, 2011 I imagine it costs an arm and a leg to print - it's big and stuffed full of pictures. Mr Puts will have to pay for each print run then recoup the money, so I can understand he wouldn't want to have to pay for more copies than he can sell. Â And he has to keep in mind that the number he can sell will shrink to near-zero if someone scans the book and puts the resulting file on the internet for anyone to download. That's what happended to one of my books. Â There is very little that a small publishing house can do once this has happened. For a self-published book, the author is left with a pile of expensive copies that are unlikely to sell. Â Best regards, Â Doug Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico Posted October 19, 2011 Share #9  Posted October 19, 2011 I imagine it costs an arm and a leg to print - it's big and stuffed full of pictures. Mr Puts will have to pay for each print run then recoup the money, so I can understand he wouldn't want to have to pay for more copies than he can sell. It's an excellent resource, but I wish he had used an English-speaking proofreader before going to press. Chris  He could e-publish it. Corrections could be issued easily. Puts should be reminded that even Leica has gone digital. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith (M) Posted November 23, 2011 Share #10 Â Posted November 23, 2011 Having missed out on the first two print-runs, I ordered one on the 27th Oct. Out of curiosity, I emailed Erwin Puts yesterday, enquiring if there was news of a likely shipping date. Opening my emails this morning, there in my inbox is one from Erwin telling me it was shipped yesterday! Â Well, with that and yesterday's arrival of Magnum Contact Sheets, my winter reading is certainly well taken care of. I shall surface again in Spring... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted November 23, 2011 Share #11 Â Posted November 23, 2011 With "such a demand," why print in "very limited numbers???" Â Because he's having to pay for the printing up front himself. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Messsucherkamera Posted November 23, 2011 Share #12 Â Posted November 23, 2011 I'm glad to hear that there's going to be a third printing. I've been intending to get this book but somehow always got sidetracked. Â I hope that he will keep printing it as long as there's a demand for it, which there seems to be. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith (M) Posted November 24, 2011 Share #13 Â Posted November 24, 2011 Having missed out on the first two print-runs, I ordered one on the 27th Oct. Out of curiosity, I emailed Erwin Puts yesterday, enquiring if there was news of a likely shipping date. Opening my emails this morning, there in my inbox is one from Erwin telling me it was shipped yesterday! Â Well, with that and yesterday's arrival of Magnum Contact Sheets, my winter reading is certainly well taken care of. I shall surface again in Spring... Â Much to my surprise, the book arrived this morning. I have never received a book that was so well-packaged! The cardboard carton has clearly been sized to be a bespoke fit and the book further protected by being sealed in bubble-wrap (how do you seal bubble-wrap?). Amazon could certainly learn from this... (see 'Magnum Contact Sheets' book thread). Â A sizeable tome, 35 x 22cm and >600 pages and well-bound. Again, Amazon take note! The layout, print quality, font, line-drawings and photographs are all of a very high standard and the book is something Erwin Puts can be justly proud of. I just hope I can do justice to the contents! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkP Posted November 24, 2011 Share #14 Â Posted November 24, 2011 I ordered one tody. I'm keen on having one Leica reference book and I'm interested to see what all the fuss is about with the Compendium. Â I emailed Irwin Puts yesterday evening and received a reply within a few hours advising how to pay via PayPal and that there were only a few left. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedaes Posted November 24, 2011 Share #15 Â Posted November 24, 2011 Does anyone know if this is a straight reprint of the 2nd Edition or if there have been some updates/text corrections? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevelap Posted November 24, 2011 Share #16 Â Posted November 24, 2011 Tried to order from Herr Puts this evening but he's sold out. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedaes Posted November 25, 2011 Share #17 Â Posted November 25, 2011 Tried to order from Herr Puts this evening but he's sold out. Â Try Lindemanns in Stuttgart. Easy through their website and very efficient service to UK. I got my 2nd Edition from them fairly late in the day when they were supposedly difficult to obtain. LFI also carried the earlier print runs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wda Posted November 25, 2011 Share #18  Posted November 25, 2011 And he has to keep in mind that the number he can sell will shrink to near-zero if someone scans the book and puts the resulting file on the internet for anyone to download. That's what happended to one of my books. ... Best regards,  Doug Did you take any legal action, Doug? If so, what was the outcome? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wda Posted November 25, 2011 Share #19 Â Posted November 25, 2011 He could e-publish it. Corrections could be issued easily. Puts should be reminded that even Leica has gone digital. When I met the author at a recent Leica Fellowship meeting, I put that question to him. He had considered it seriously, but concluded it was not financially viable for him. Â For anyone who has a current copy will know, the author has invested heavily in time and production costs producing a worthy volume which represents a prodigious amount of research and writing. It is easy to understand his decision, even if it does not please those who place a rather lesser value on the tome. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith (M) Posted November 25, 2011 Share #20 Â Posted November 25, 2011 Does anyone know if this is a straight reprint of the 2nd Edition or if there have been some updates/text corrections? Â Somewhat academic now that the 3rd edition seems to sold out, but in the Introduction to the 3rd edition, Erwin notes:- Â 2nd Edition - two paragraphs added Super-Elmar 21mm added to the lens reports chapter and a new appendix for serial numbers and production numbers. Also more pictures and graphs; several text sections expanded/updated. 3rd Edition - Limited to 600 books. Several minor textual changes have been made to improve clarity of meaning. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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