Bowerbird, Color images would have been nice, but the economics of print-on-demand mean that color interior pages cost four times as much as B/W pages, and if you have one color page the whole book needs to be printed that way. The book would be much more expensive than comparable books sold in a bookstore. There is no extra charge for color on the cover, and that cover has some very nice art by a young woman mentoring at the Rural Design collective. I'm pleased with how it turned out, even with B/W interior pages. I'm still working on Bhagavata Purana and I plan to do a print-on-demand version of that with an extra introduction by myself. Designing a print on demand book is pleasant, much more so than creating an e-book. I wrote a blog post about doing books on CreateSpace if anyone is interested: http://blog.booki.cc/2012/03/using-booki-with-createspace/ Glad you liked the book, James Simmons On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:46 PM, <Bowerbird@aol.com> wrote:
i received my print-on-demand of "e-book enlightenment" -- the book by james -- so now i have the paperwork that i am officially enlightened. the book looks great, james... i expected color images, because that's what's in the .pdf, but they're black-and-white in the p-book. still, that's ok.
and in other news, jeroen hellingman over at d.p. has now post-processed 500 books for p.g., a big accomplishment, especially considering that some of the projects he tackles are far more complicated to digitize than the average book. as he points out, 500 books is a book a week for 10 years, so that gives you an idea of the degree of dedication there. congratulations, jeroen.
-bowerbird
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