What's involved with a book?

Many people who have viewed my macro pictures have said that they are really good and have said that I should publish a book of some of my best. So after hearing this for some time now, I'm looking into it now. I'm sure many forums subscribers have their own books, so this question is directed towards you; what's involved with creating a photography book and getting it published? Thanks for your responses

Are you thinking of self publishing one for your self... Hardcover Books

Or will you get a publisher to print thousands of them?

Maybe not thousands, but yea, I wanted it to be publicly available.

Blurb will allow you to make it available for sale, but the prices for single books are more that most people will want to pay. Even your Mother!
See the book link in my Sig.

Wow, that does seem pretty expensive, hardly making back what you paid to have it made. What route did you go to do your car book?

mknabster wrote in post #14484361
Wow, that does seem pretty expensive, hardly making back what you paid to have it made. What route did you go to do your car book?

As I said, "Blurb... See the book link in my Sig."

The toughest part about book publishing is that you will need to print 1000+ to get reasonable pricing, plus you will always give a cut to the distributor/order processor. For a personal project Blurb, Lulu, Brio, and a few others offer print on demand where the book is only printed when ordered, but the pricing leaves very little profit.