Re: PicoLisp Book
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Thorsten Jolitz tjol...@googlemail.com wrote: BTW I just found out that there is an upper limit for book size (at Amazon some 870 pages or so) in self-publishing, so if I include the function reference (some 200 pages) and the rosettacode examples (huge), what I really would like to do, there might be no other choice than making it two books (i.e. there might be two different covers ;) Do you know about Lulu: http://www.lulu.com/ I guess Amazon is bigger so it must have some nicer stuff, do you know how they compare? chri -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
Re: PicoLisp Book
Le 21/07/2012 20:05, Thorsten Jolitz a écrit : Terry Palfrey terrypalfrey...@gmail.com writes: BTW I just found out that there is an upper limit for book size (at Amazon some 870 pages or so) in self-publishing, so if I include the function reference (some 200 pages) and the rosettacode examples (huge), what I really would like to do, there might be no other choice than making it two books (i.e. there might be two different covers ;) I fear that the price tag for a book this size would be outside of what I would pay for. I would suggest that you consider PDF or ePub: it would both remove the maximum size limit and reduce your publication costs. On a side note, I personally consider that a function reference MUST have a search engine, and as such, if you don't intend to expand on the online one (more examples, reasons for the use of one rather than the other in case of similar functionality, ...), then I don't think you should include the reference in a paper book. Regards, -- Laurent ARTAUD -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
Re: PicoLisp Book
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Thorsten Jolitz tjol...@googlemail.comwrote: Terry Palfrey terrypalfrey...@gmail.com writes: I was thinking of some sort of graphic to imply works like a waterworks or something that was Cover design is definitely a topic where I would love to get input from the community, since I'm not a designer. I was thinking of a hopper feed for ideas and code coming out in bundles or something clever like that. It seems the name of the book has more or less converged to PicoLisp Works, so the cover design should be based on that name. It's so appropriate. Your graphic looks really nice - I like it, thanks. I hope there are no copyright on any of the parts? I bought this package and rendered the image and then modified it in paint.net.
Re: PicoLisp Book
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Thorsten Jolitz tjol...@googlemail.comwrote: Laurent Artaud laurent.art...@free.fr writes: Le 21/07/2012 20:05, Thorsten Jolitz a écrit : Terry Palfrey terrypalfrey...@gmail.com writes: BTW I just found out that there is an upper limit for book size (at Amazon some 870 pages or so) in self-publishing, so if I include the function reference (some 200 pages) and the rosettacode examples (huge), what I really would like to do, there might be no other choice than making it two books (i.e. there might be two different covers ;) I fear that the price tag for a book this size would be outside of what I would pay for. I would suggest that you consider PDF or ePub: it would both remove the maximum size limit and reduce your publication costs. With the 2 volume solution, Vol.1 with all the docs, references and articles would probably have some 330 to 350 pages, and might be still affordable. Vol. 2 with the function reference and the rosettacode examples might be twice as big. I think ebooks are often included in self-publishing offers. Adding limitations where none exist is not a good practise. There are many people who wish to have and to hold a print version of a book. They will pay for their preference or not. A PDF and a ePub and any other electronic version is not mutually exclusive
