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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