by Ella at Bob Books
The medium of photography has often become far too disposable, our pictures stored on digital platforms rather than in a format we can hold, pass around and display.
Bob Books was founded in order to solve the problem of the disappearance of this magical art form — allowing you to create your very own photo book. You can bring your memories to life: use your images and tell your story.
My favourite Bob Book this year, which won the Bob Books Photo Book of the Month competition in February, has got to be ‘Travels with My Father’ by Thomas North. Here, a son created a visual diary for his father of their travels to Australia and Japan. Their journey is moving and full of life as he captures both their surroundings and their bond, perfectly.
For the past 10 years Bob Books has established itself as the most well-loved and trusted platform for creating, printing and publishing photo books in the UK. Bob Books is used by countless professional and aspiring photographers, who understand that photographs can easily be transformed into keepsake objects with just a moment of inspiration.
As the UK’s top supplier of photographic paper photo books; our best-selling, lay-flat, photographic paper books are produced using a silver halide photographic process. Images are exposed onto 300gsm photographic paper and then developed through traditional chemical photographic processes. The pages are then bound using our unique lay-flat binding, displaying double page spreads at their best. Our product range includes hardback and paperback books and boasts a wide range of papers and finishes, all of the highest quality. We even offer logo-free printing for free.
Using the easy Bob designer software, PDF to book or simple drag-and-drop app for the iPad, Bob Books gives you the opportunity to make a customized, beautifully crafted photo book (suited to every design ability).
Once ordered, you can then choose for the book to be published in the Bob Bookshop, an exciting platform for people to share and sell their creations.
And now, Bob Books is offering a 15% discount to all fotoLibra customers!
Galloping horse
Make the most of your collections of archival images or family photos and turn them into an object of beauty.
Palmyra, Syria
Krak des Chevaliers
Wherever your passion lies, your pictures can tell a beautiful story.
African Fish Eagle in Flight
Take advantage of this today by visiting www.bobbooks.co.uk/fotolibra to quickly claim your discount and get started!
Picture credits: Selection of Bob Books © Bob Books | Bob Books spread © Bob Books | Galloping horse © Paul Richards / fotoLibra | Palmyra, Syria © Paul Gapper / fotoLibra | Krak des Chevaliers © Bernard O’Kane / fotoLibra | African Fish Eagle in Flight © Linda Wright / fotoLibra
Gwyn writes: Bob Books is owned by an old friend of mine who works to the highest possible standards. Give them a go — you won’t regret it. And if the pictures illustrating this guest blog look familiar, it’s because they’ve been chosen from the fotoLibra archive.
Thanks for this. Will definitely check it out. Ella/Gwyn is a collaboration between FL & BB technically possible?
By which I mean Bob Books could offer their customers the choice of compiling a book from their selection of all the artists available on fotolibra.
Just a thought. ATB, Dave
Like this one: https://www.bobbooks.co.uk/bookshop/photobook/le-petit-parisien-selections
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Great stuff Dave — but isn’t it a little pricey?
Hi Gwyn. I’ve only set a mark up of £5 on mine from Bob Books cost base of £25, so that £5 would be my profit. The rest is their charge which would need to come down a bit if there was any kind of collaboration I’d have thought. Most others on there seem to be setting a mark up of £30+ on theirs which is a bit unrealistic in my opinion.
Let’s put it this way. Like most of the other ways to make money from the photographic industry I’m not expecting to get rich on the proceeds anytime soon 🙂
ATB, Dave
Self publishing is certainly a way – maybe even THE way – forward. So it’s Very interesting to see a British outfit aiding and abetting the process. I’ve recently published four short-run books for business clients via the American outfit BLURB. The results have been highly satisfactory and as a business project, quite reasonably priced – though not cheap were they personal vanity publications. I’ve also recently self-published a much more elaborate picture book with 50,000 words of text entirely myself, bar the actual printing which was handled commercially with excellent results, and in the long run, very much cheaper than BLURB could have done it.
Thus I’m interested in BOBBOOKS but crucially I can find no mention of the numbers of pages they offer with each format, while I note with some dismay that they don’t do text. While a picture may be worth 1,000 words, with the right caption it might be worth 2,000 !
Well you can tell Ella from me Gwyn that I’m certainly impressed with the speed of turnaround as I’ve received my book already. Also the quality is excellent.
I’ll forward a couple of pictures of the book to your e mail Gwyn if you want to share them here. I couldn’t see a way of uploading them to the blog. Cheers, Dave
great! I love it already 😉 I would like to see my “Iceland” in a book. Thank you 😉