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gold medal winners; I could focus on domestic exhibits. Starting with grand award-winning exhibits provided a kind of guarantee that the exhibits are of high quality and worth studying. Exhibits of this caliber meet the two goals I wanted to achieve: Make great exhibits available so that they can be studied and enjoyed at leisure. There is never enough time at a stamp show to study an exhibit to the extent we want to or in the comfort we would prefer. Allow exhibitors the opportunity to study great exhibits from a technical perspective to see how the exhibitor actually prepared the exhibit. Grand Award exhibits provide an opportunity for exhibitors to hone their craft. Once we combined the idea of using CreateSpace with the concept of focusing on Grand Award exhibits, everything else was conceptually simple and primarily a question of implementation. I spoke to several people to refine some ideas and finally found the courage to ask one exhibitor if I could do my first book with his exhibit. After considering my request, he declined. I then approached Ed Andrews, laid out my vision and asked if I could work with him to see if publishing exhibits with high production standards was possible. His willingness to work with me and to allow me to experiment with his exhibit on Hitler Youth made everything that followed possible. The first book came out in March 2017. How does a consumer find these books, costs, website etc. Most of the volumes are available through Amazon. My new website, exhibitorspress.com, has information on all the volumes and links to the Amazon site or other source for ordering copies. Of the six volumes printed so far, prices range from $20 to $35. Can you give us a couple of details on the production. I call the cover glossy, but maybe it’s known as something else? What type of paper is it (it seems to reproduce the images quite well). Who are you using as the printer? The paper is 60-pound coated stock 426 ppi. Sixty-pound is the weight of 500 sheets cut to the basic size. The cover is coated stock with film lamination. These specifications are the default for CreateSpace, the print on demand printer/publisher I am using. How do you feel this project helps philately? Exhibits are some of the most useful examples of philatelic literature. They frequently reflect the most detailed and most current knowledge of their subject and present this knowledge with superb material in an engaging manner. They are the products of hundreds or thousands of hours of study and research, often contain world-class rarities and reflect the highest levels of skill in philatelic presentation. Making these exhibits available preserves portions of our philatelic heritage that would otherwise be lost. Explain how the process works? Do you contact the exhibitor? Have they contacted you? Do they receive any kind of a fee? To date, I have contacted the exhibitors and presented my vision. I am at a point now where a small number of exhibitors are beginning to contact me or I have been given referrals to individuals who are interested and have asked me to contact them. I tell exhibitors two things up front: There is no cost to the exhibitor at any stage of the process, and the book does not go to print unless the exhibitor is completely satisfied. It is their book and unless it meets their expectations we do not continue. Part of the process of publishing a book is setting the sales price and determining royalties. Of the six books published so far, all have a low price and very low royalties. They are all specialized subjects with projections of small numbers of sales. Most have a foreword by you; and some also have some kind of an introduction from the exhibitor. Have you decided on a specific format? Do you plan to try to include a foreword in most of these? Each volume produced has helped me learn more about the opportunities for creating a book that is more than a collection of exhibit pages. I originally thought I would use a template and each book would be the same. As it turns out, each exhibitor and each subject is different so the books reflect these differences. Beyond exhibit pages and a synopsis, there can be a biographical note, an introduction, a history of the exhibit or how the exhibit was constructed or reprints (with permission, of course) of relevant articles that turn a book into a textbook for an issue or subject. One exhibitor with whom I am speaking wants to create a special section addressing the history of the subject that is the focus of the exhibit. For some, I write a foreword. You noted in the Cipolla book showing his C-of-C championship exhibit (2009) that it will be unlikely you will be able to publish very many Champion of Champions exhibits. Why is that? There is only one C-of-C a year. Some exhibits, those prepared on larger size paper or mounting boards, for example, won’t work well. Some exhibits may not excite me. Some exhibitors are not interested in publishing their exhibits. What was the process with Ron Cipolla’s exhibit? He only showed it twice in 2009 and yet now, by philatelic miracle perhaps, we can see it all in print. I showed Ron two of the books that I had published and told him I’d like to publish his exhibit. He is very proud of that exhibit and was eager to participate in a project that would increase the opportunity for others to see his exhibit. There was, I think, about a 10-minute face-to-face discussion and a few followup emails to come to an agreement. After the book was prepared, I sent a proof to him to review (the exhibitor reviewing a proof of the book is a part of the standard process for one of these volumes), we identified changes to be made and I made the changes and the book went to production. So, how does the process work with choosing what exhibits become books? It’s really up to me and my idiosyncratic preferences for what I’d like to do and who I’d like to approach. As for production, do you just hope they have pdfs of the entire exhibit? Or 176 AMERICAN PHILATELIST / FEBRUARY <strong>2018</strong>
do you make arrangements to have it scanned? I prefer to have jpeg scans. I can use pdfs but it’s harder for me and takes more time as I have to convert them to jpegs. Some exhibitors have scans already and that makes the process easy for both of us. Exhibitors who are willing to have their exhibits published, and who do not already have scans, seem willing to undertake the scanning as a necessary step in preparing a book. I do not get involved in the scanning process. There are more than 30 World Series of Philately shows per year that will produce an equal number of grand award winners. Do you have key elements that must be checked off to consider the exhibit for a book? Could a gold award winner be considered for publication? The first consideration is technical; I can’t easily handle exhibits for which all the pages are on 11-by17 paper. I will be experimenting with “full bleed” (where the image goes margin to margin so that two facing pages can reproduce a double size page) but I have not yet done so. For the immediate present, at least, I first consider those exhibits that are printed on 8½-by-11 paper. I can handle a small number of large pages. Then I look for what interests me, what I think will be interesting to others, how significant the material is and how attractive the material will look on the printed page. In addition, for all six of the volumes published to date, I have a personal relationship with the exhibitor. I was frustrated that some of the exhibits I wanted to publish had not (or had not yet) been awarded a grand award. This is the reason I am beginning the Editor’s Choice series. Is there anything else you would like to add? I recently attended INPEX, the Indian National Stamp Show and realized, viscerally, not just intellectually, that there are great exhibits that have never been shown in the U.S. and are worth making available to a U.S. audience. I will be trying to print at least one Indian exhibit, never seen in this country, this Gibraltar 2017 Issues at Face Value Special Bonus: 2017 ISSUES Issue Type Price Year of the Rooster 2v. Set $6.25 Europa 2017 Castle 2v. Set $5.00 Accession 65th Anniversary 6v. Set $8.75 Accession 65th Anniversary M/S $3.75 70th Wedding Anniversary8v. Set $8.75 70th Wedding Anniversary M/S $3.75 HMS Gibraltar 7v. Set $8.75 House of Windsor M/S $5.00 Referendum 50th Anniversary 1v. Set $6.25 Referendum 50th Anniversary M/S $5.00 Gibraltar Military Heritage 9v. Set $8.75 Diana 20th Anniversary 4v. Set $5.00 Upper Rock Nature Reserve 7v. Set $7.50 Christmas 2017 Cupcakes 6v. Set $6.25 WWF Bats of Gibraltar 4v. 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Sam Malamud 2016 ISSUES Scott # Issue Price 1540 Year of the Monkey $5.00 1541-50 Queen Elizabeth 90th Birthday $13.25 1551-2 Europa 2016 Think Green $3.75 1553-57 100th Battle of the Somme $5.45 1558 Fifth Wedding Anniversary S/S $2.50 1559-63 Alemeda Gardens 200th Ann. $6.40 1564-69 Gibraltar Historic Gates $6.70 1570-74 UNESCO Gorham’s Cave Complex $5.45 1575-79 Gibraltar Pillar Boxes $5.45 1580-87 Historic Streets of Gibraltar $7.25 1588-93 Christmas 2016 $5.95 Complete Year Set of 11 different Sets and 1 Souvenir Sheet: Special Price: $72.00 year in the Editor’s Choice series. With hindsight, it seems that publishing exhibits is a natural progression of what I have been doing for the past many years. I began exhibiting, then I was fortunate to have an opportunity to write columns about exhibiting, which culminated in a book about exhibiting. Publishing other peoples’ exhibits is the next step after writing a book about how to exhibit. One is the theory and one is the practice. One exhibitor I approached about publishing her exhibit asked all the appropriate questions about how the book creating process works and how CreateSpace functions. She then decided she wanted to do her exhibit herself. That’s great! More sources for philatelic publications are good. The challenge, and the biggest challenge I have beyond keeping my website updated, is how I make my website one of the ‘go-to’ websites for philatelic exhibits. I’ll be adding content on a regular basis, using social media and working hard to make my site known to the philatelic community. 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