Apple releases $300 book containing 450 photos of Apple products

[suicidalfranco]

the best thing to happen to photo albums since the photography album 

[Masada02]

It's art, and high quality printings are freaking expensive. Thus, the high price. 

 

Also, not sure why everyone complains when a company wants to make money. People will buy this book, Apple will make money, and thus the cycle will continue. Clearly they are doing something right when they have billions of dollars just sitting around.

 

The way everyone reacts, you'd think that Apple was supposed to be a charity or something. 

[Poofu]

2 hours ago, RKRiley said:

How can a book be that expensive lmao.

They must be making about 2000% profit on that thing

you forgot a couple zeros

[Mira Yurizaki]

33 minutes ago, Masada02 said:

It's art, and high quality printings are freaking expensive. Thus, the high price. 

 

Also, not sure why everyone complains when a company wants to make money. People will buy this book, Apple will make money, and thus the cycle will continue. Clearly they are doing something right when they have billions of dollars just sitting around.

 

The way everyone reacts, you'd think that Apple was supposed to be a charity or something. 

See I would be inclined to agree here, but you can buy The Farside Collection and The Calvin and Hobbes Collection for $200. And they're freakin' tomes that look like they can stand the test of time.

[TidaLWaveZ]

4 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

See I would be inclined to agree here, but you can buy The Farside Collection and The Calvin and Hobbes Collection for $200. And they're freakin' tomes that look like they can stand the test of time.

I may have agreed at first glance, but after some thought and a quick search anyone can see that the price on this book is nowhere close to justifiable.

[Guest MrE]

2 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

Stop ass kissing.

Its expensive for a book.

Oh dear, did you even read what I wrote? You really need to get your head out of your bubble sometime..

[79wjd]

12 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

See I would be inclined to agree here, but you can buy The Farside Collection and The Calvin and Hobbes Collection for $200. And they're freakin' tomes that look like they can stand the test of time.

Both of those sets are also mostly text or black/white comics though.

[Bensemus]

2 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

Stop ass kissing.

Its expensive for a book.

Any low volume book can be quite expensive to print. Assuming high quality paper and print and what he said isn't wrong. 

[NumLock21]

Just now, MrE said:

Oh dear, did you even read what I wrote? You really need to get your head out of your bubble sometime..

Apple pricing on their macbooks I'm fine with that. But a book for $300, even some Apple lovers will have some sense and say that's expensive. Only the most extreme isheep will try to find any way to justified that insane price tag.

[Mira Yurizaki]

4 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

Both of those sets are also mostly text or black/white comics though.

The cost of color ink doesn't justify a $200+ asking price above either of those series.  I can probably find other books that are full color of high quality images that still aren't as expensive.

 

I mean the only justification is it's probably going to be a low volume limited production item. But that doesn't mean it's worth $300 to most people.

[79wjd]

1 minute ago, M.Yurizaki said:

The cost of color ink doesn't justify a $200+ asking price above either of those series.  I can probably find other books that are full color of high quality images that still aren't as expensive.

 

I mean the only justification is it's probably going to be a low volume limited production item. But that doesn't mean it's worth $300 to most people.

And those people won't buy it. But for those who want to buy it, $300 isn't that bad of a price considering the cost of printing. 

[Guest MrE]

Just now, NumLock21 said:

Apple pricing on their macbooks I'm fine with that. But a book for $300, even some Apple lovers will have some sense and say that's expensive. Only the most extreme isheep will try to find any way to justified that insane price tag.

I never said that 300 usd for that book was not expensive. What I was saying is that its a matter of perspective. Also you can easily find books well into that price category just for education (like university).

[NumLock21]

Just now, MrE said:

I never said that 300 usd for that book was not expensive. What I was saying is that its a matter of perspective. Also you can easily find books well into that price category just for education (like university).

My college text book for Art History class didn't cost $300, has more pages and it's also high quality. Got it brand new too.

[Mira Yurizaki]

Just now, djdwosk97 said:

And those people won't buy it. But for those who want to buy it, $300 isn't that bad of a price considering the cost of printing. 

This is where I'm inclined to say what is the cost of printing this?

 

Well going back to Calvin and Hobbes, it had a run of a little over 10 years. 1/7 of that were color Sunday strips at the very least (there are also a few full color side stories from the books Watterson included). That comes out to about 520 color pages. Granted they're not as colorful as a photograph, but printing presses either charge by color or they don't.

[Guest MrE]

4 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

My college text book for Art History class didn't cost $300, has more pages and it's also high quality. Got it brand new too.

No, of cause not. No offence, but that is Arts History (I want to make it absolutely celar - NO offence). Look at economist, doctor and that, in some countries they can cost up multiple 1000 of usd (in total, granted).

[TidaLWaveZ]

8 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

This is where I'm inclined to say what is the cost of printing this?

 

Well going back to Calvin and Hobbes, it had a run of a little over 10 years. 1/7 of that were color Sunday strips at the very least (there are also a few full color side stories from the books Watterson included). That comes out to about 520 color pages. Granted they're not as colorful as a photograph, but printing presses either charge by color or they don't.

Just look at comic book compilations.

 

Spider-man Omnibus vol. 1 hardcover 1065 pages $100 upon release

[spartaman64]

300 dollars for a photo book WTF 

[spartaman64]

1 hour ago, Masada02 said:

It's art, and high quality printings are freaking expensive. Thus, the high price. 

 

Also, not sure why everyone complains when a company wants to make money. People will buy this book, Apple will make money, and thus the cycle will continue. Clearly they are doing something right when they have billions of dollars just sitting around.

 

The way everyone reacts, you'd think that Apple was supposed to be a charity or something. 

lol we have wildly different ideas of what art is then. art needs thought to be put into it not mindless photos of what looks like a product catalog  

[spartaman64]

3 hours ago, Sauron said:

Nah, large paperback books are actually quite expensive, it's probably closer to 100-120% margin.

its probably around 500% actually. i dont know any large paperback books that cost 150

[Sauron]

Just now, spartaman64 said:

its probably around 500% actually. i dont know any large paperback books that cost 150

Oh I do. University books are hella expensive.

[spartaman64]

Just now, Sauron said:

Oh I do. University books are hella expensive.

textbooks? those are made with long years of Ph.D professors working together. this isnt really comparable to that

[Mira Yurizaki]

Well here's the other thing

 

iFixit has a ton of pictures of Apple's products and they've officially done tear downs of most of Apple's major products from 2009 on. Users have contributed a lot of high quality photos, albeit of obviously used products, of Apple's older products to the site as well.

 

So... unless you really want a fancy book by Apple, you can get all of the technology porn of Apple's products you want from iFixit.

[Sauron]

16 minutes ago, spartaman64 said:

textbooks? those are made with long years of Ph.D professors working together. this isnt really comparable to that

I'm sure someone spent a lot of time on it. It's also high quality colour print. It's still too expensive from a pure value perspective, but not 6 times as expensive as it should be.

[Masada02]

1 hour ago, M.Yurizaki said:

See I would be inclined to agree here, but you can buy The Farside Collection and The Calvin and Hobbes Collection for $200. And they're freakin' tomes that look like they can stand the test of time.

 

22 minutes ago, spartaman64 said:

lol we have wildly different ideas of what art is then. art needs thought to be put into it not mindless photos of what looks like a product catalog  

Art is purely subjective so its hard to put a value on it in the first place. Hell, have you seen those plain white paintings that sold for something close to 100 million dollars? Art doesn't make sense.

[atrash]

You should check out Architecture books. anything up to $300 is still normal. even more so if it's of a high quality limited edition