The Future Of Foreign Coin Album Manufacturing...?

How about we start it from scratch? The market may need some competition to spice things up.

Design can be done as quickly from a week to a couple of months. I'm certain if I had time, I can redo the entire 7070 (my style) in under a month - I've already taken time to do the research and did a rough plan of how the layout should look like.

I'm curious - how can one look up information for manufacturing process for such albums? (We'll leave the marketing on the other side for now) Since some of the coin albums that I have are more than 50 years old - I really cannot imagine that this is rocket science...

The album companies need to sell a good deal of albums to recoup the expense of making it. How many albums would they sell for say, the Japan type set shown above? In Japan, probably a good many. World wide, not very many more would add to the total sold in Japan. Same would hold for say, Argentine silver coins, or Sub-Saharan Francs of Africa, that kind of thing. It could take them twenty years to recoup the cost of printing and storing a certain run of albums while waiting for them to sell.

I think if you want a custom page layout, buy some slab holders, put your coins in them, and then put the slabs on a special album page.

Sorry, didn't notice replies to this thread.

I guess what I am trying to say is that it's always easy to look at the negative aspects. Bear in mind that technology is always advancing and so is cost of manufacturing. If you look at just printing technology alone - guess how far color printing have come. I remember the time when dot matrix printer became portable and owning one at home was the envy. All that changed in a matter of 20 (?) years. Now it's the era of 3D printer.

I speculate that when such albums were first made more than fifty years ago, they were manually measured, cut, glued etc. Now with digital designing and newer machinery - I find it hard to comprehend that this is difficult to replicate. Of course, cost is always an issue but at this point of time, I do not know how to find out the cost of such manufacturing.

Isn't it a bit too early to throw the towel without doing any business analysis and potential market demand?