A question for the crowd

[pecunium]

As Autumn approcahes, I am designing some calendars for sale.


At present I am planning to have three. One flowers, one animals, and one Galapagos. I toyed with the idea of a landscape/architecture calendar, but am not sure about having too many. I may still do it.

1: The Galapagos calendar is a 16 month calendar, how do you feel about that? (I'm a 12 month calendar sort myself. I'd get to June, the next year, and discover I didn't have any way to keep track of things past that, but there are a lot of them, and I had the devil's own time culling the images down to 16)

2: Should the cover art be the same, or different, from the interior images?

3: How much are you willing to pay? Right now the company I'm looking at using seems to be running in the 20 dollar range, for a 12 month calendar. What you get for that, of course, is 12-16 of my photos, and a way to keep track of the date.

4: I am not planning on having holidays included. If that's something a lot of people are interested in, I can change it.

Comments

[jpmassar.livejournal.com]

1. No opinion.

2. Different.

3. $20 would be an upper limit.

4. Holiday labels are good.

[shunra.livejournal.com]

Count me in at the $20-$25 range. I'll be keeping an eye out for it.

[magentamn.livejournal.com]

I prefer 12 month calendars; most are, so 16 month often are 4 wasted pages.

Different would give me an extra picture, but would I be able to display it?

I'm used to paying $15-16 max, but I realize this is a small run and would cost more. I guess I'd still be interested at 20. I really, really like some of your flower photos.

No holidays is fine, I'd prefer to write my own in anyway. Full and new moons are what I use most on a calendar, and the most expensive calendar I get EVERY year has local sunrise, sunset and local weather data.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

I'm torn on the 16 month. I suspect that will be more in the $25 range, but it's hard to choose.

If phases of the moon were an option, I'd put them in. The thing with holidays is they are specific. This one has US/Candadian. Ok, but that means RC Easter, not Orthodox, etc.

So that's why I'm inclined to leave them out (that and the Jewish holidays always seem to be off, because they are usually written as if it were X morning, not X-1 evening, when they begin).

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think you would. It would be the cover, so it wouldn't be on display during the year, but when all was said and done, you would have it to show.

[izzydesan.livejournal.com]

I would definitely be interested in this. I love calendars and often purchase several. As to your questions....

1. I definitely prefer 12 months. I never figured out the rationale for 16 month options. You are either in overlap with other calendars or not using 4 of the 16 pages.

2. Different cover art would be great - certainly a unique way to present the caledar - a bonus!

3. I would certainly pay $20 for a nice calendar. For me I think $25 would be my upper limit.

4. Although holidays are always nice to have it is not an imperitive for me. I like the idea of phases of the moon. If you can at least have when daylight savings ends and begins, that would be great as I can never keep up with that information.

Please keep us updated on this! I hope it works out.

[shunra.livejournal.com]

Indeed - please, no holidays.