TromboneAl
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Well, I've got another book out.
"Whoa, Dude, pace yourself!"
Click here to see it.
This book is different. It only took a few weeks to write. It's for authors who are creating a paperback version of their book. Here's a blurb about it (CreateSpace is the Print-on-Demand publisher affiliated with Amazon):
Was I right that people will need this and buy it? Early indications are: No
It's been out for five days, and no one has purchased it yet. So, we'll see.
If it doesn't sell, I won't mind. It was an interesting exercise, and if I hadn't written it, I'd always wonder.
"Whoa, Dude, pace yourself!"
Click here to see it.
This book is different. It only took a few weeks to write. It's for authors who are creating a paperback version of their book. Here's a blurb about it (CreateSpace is the Print-on-Demand publisher affiliated with Amazon):
When I was formatting a CreateSpace version of my book Drive, Ride, Repeat, I had to decide on margins, headers, footers, font face, font size, and paragraph style (block or indented). I could go with smaller margins and/or smaller fonts to reduce the page count. I could have blank lines between paragraphs, or use indented paragraphs. Wow, what a lot of decisions I had to make!
My problem was that without holding a physical book in my hand, I couldn't get a good feeling for how these options would affect the appearance of my creation. Sure, I could get representations on my computer screen, but the book was going to be hardcopy, so I wanted to see the examples in hardcopy. On your computer screen there's no way to know, for example, whether the text will be lost in the inner margins, or whether it will be big enough to read comfortably. I wanted to open a real book, and see what combinations of these specs made it readable. I looked, but couldn't find a physical book with samples of different layouts.
I was so sure that people would want this, that I quickly put it together. It was easy to do, but required a lot of attention to detail to get everything right.My problem was that without holding a physical book in my hand, I couldn't get a good feeling for how these options would affect the appearance of my creation. Sure, I could get representations on my computer screen, but the book was going to be hardcopy, so I wanted to see the examples in hardcopy. On your computer screen there's no way to know, for example, whether the text will be lost in the inner margins, or whether it will be big enough to read comfortably. I wanted to open a real book, and see what combinations of these specs made it readable. I looked, but couldn't find a physical book with samples of different layouts.
Was I right that people will need this and buy it? Early indications are: No
It's been out for five days, and no one has purchased it yet. So, we'll see.
If it doesn't sell, I won't mind. It was an interesting exercise, and if I hadn't written it, I'd always wonder.