Preview Problem With Color Photographs

I am converting my full color Driving & Discovering Hawaii photo guidebooks  to PDF for sale online. Since the books were originally published as print books on paper, all of its hundreds of photos were originally saved as CMYK. When I go to assemble the PDF files in Preview, a message appears: "Use of an output color space which differs from the transparency color space may cause color shifts in the resulting PDF."
I assume this means the photos have to all be converted to RGB in order for Preview to retain the original vibrant color? When I view the current result in Preview, the colors have gone dull. Is there any way to avoid countless hours of reconverting the photos to RGB?

What is the original file format?   Perhaps saving them as JPEG instead of PDF would work better.
http://www.lemkesoft.com/ GraphicConverter is a much better image editor than any PDF editor.

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