Digital BW, The Print

I'm a bit of a lurker, but this thread has recently interested me. So I 
decided to join and participate. Hello everyone!

Sean, Lenswork magazine is printed at Hemlock in Vancouver, Canada. 
They're an offset printer that is very, very expensive. They're good, 
but not cost effecient. As a photographer who is also seeking out to do 
a book of my own photography, I've been seeking my own book for the 
past couple of months. I've received quotes from Hemlock, Double 
Graphics, Meridian... even Stinehour. I finally decided I was going to 
go with Stinehour, but then they closed last month... 

I was on my way home from a bookstore two weeks ago and I picked up a 
copy of Focus Magazine (www.focusmag.info) and WOW was I impressed. 
Great quality, excellent articles, fantastic reproduction. As I was 
looking through this magazine, I found that they were offering 
photographers a service to help them streamline the process of getting 
their photography book published. I called them up and it seems that 
this is a brand new publishing company that's really hungry for their 
first book. They quoted me $20/book for a softcover 9 x 12, 96 page 
book in quadtone and I just received a sample of their work that their 
printer does... AMAZING.

In addition to printing my book, they're offering me a full year of 
advertising inside of their magazine, plus they'll market my book to 
distributors and to bookstores.

Not only are they the least expensive option, but the best quality and 
they offer marketing and advertising as part of the package that's 
$20/book!

Anyway.. you guys should check it out. www.focuspublishing.net