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The duration of the contract ... good point. In fact, if the book is a great success we have the idea of making such a book each year. So the duration is in fact the timelaps during which the book is available ( it's written in the contract and it express that, even if the way it's written is not really clear in fact. We had to follow French law rules here ). So the duration is the lifetime of the availability of the book.
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Another point. The rights : you concede rights on images for this book or for promotion of this book and only and those only 2 cases. Some people didn't read accurately the contract and it doesn't allow us to use your pictures for any other stuff than the "book" or "book promotion".

Not exclusive of course

No, Kolor has only 2 rights : to create the book with your picture or use some pictures to make advertisements for the book ( I would found that really hard to make a leaflet for the panorama book without having the right to use some pictures to illustrate that ). Beside that, we don't have any right. We cannot for example make any print of any pictures.

Thanks for clarification, Alexandre.
After reading the contract I was under impression that images can be printed for the exhibitions/etc.
I could colloborate with you on that by I would need a very controlled environment, to have a full track on what is printed.

The image preview takes usually a few minutes to generate. You simply reload the page in a few minutes and should see the preview.

There is a small issue with the image previews, but if you can see the image name/location, then your image has been correctly uploaded.

Thanks for your contributions,
Rami

Thank you, Rami. I've refreshed the page, but it still hasn't appeared, so this information is very welcome!

What is the size of the book and how many pages?

I mean how many panos can be placed on a single page, so what is the best aspect ratio.
I guess that panos on 1 by 4 ratio are going to be very small!

Last edited by beeloba (2008-08-31 15:57:48)

bazaar wrote:

... on peut au moins modifier nos notes, je n'ai pas tout rempli les champs...

Kolor est resté très vague sur le contenu des champs, je fais confiance à Alexandre/Rami qu'une fois fait le choix des contributions, il y aura moyen en ligne ou par mail de modifier les champs informatifs pour donner un peu d'uniformité sur les infos : que veux-t-on ?

Des infos sur les techniques de prise de vue et de stitching (cela ne va pas beaucoup intéresser les non-panoramistes) ? Des infos sur le lieu ou le sujet (je pense que c'est plus attirant pour un livre qui ne devrait pas être réservé à quelques spécialistes, même si 2500 utilisateurs enregistrés ici, cela fait plus que 'quelques' ).

Closing date is the "End of August", could I ask for one extra day? I'm busy rendering a panorama I'd like to upload...

Yes sir! Busy with it all the time...

No, everything will be closed this evening. Some details about how we will proceed :
- Tomorrow, I will wrote some script to help us to make the editing ( choosing images ). Our estimation is to keep around 400 images. Due to the success of the panobook,  it will be 1 image per use but some user will probably have 2 images.
- Everything will be checked by us in the next 2 days before sending everything to the guy that will make the book. We'll have 2, 3 pages done to check the layout, text, etc.
- Have the 180, 200 pages layout done for end of September.
- October is reserved for finishing layout and printing.
- November on our website for ordering and shipping.