velotel
02-11-2015, 09:46 AM
Guess I'll give it a go again and see if the result is any different. Seems the edit a post doesn't allow adding a poll to it so I have to start over again. Maybe this time I'll be smarter than the program. No guarantees there.
I’m in the final stages of publishing my book on riding in France and am figuring out what size a run I want to do, or perhaps I should say how small a run I want to do. So I thought a poll here on the forum could be interesting. Just so you know before responding to the poll, the book won’t be cheap, around 35$ probably. The profusion of color photos printed on good quality, large format paper is mostly behind that. I think around 90% of the pages, maybe more, have color on them. A small run size isn’t conducive to driving the price down either.
The book is only going to be sold on-line via Vecchio’s and in any other bike shops that contact me with a desire to sell it. You won’t find it on Amazon or in any book shops, unless there’s some small shop somewhere who contacts me and orders a few because the owner loves riding and has exceptionally good taste in literature.
The book will be printed in China by an underage labor force of course. Okay, okay, just kidding, the printer’s in Colorado, kind of the equivalent of the smaller, professional local bike shop mentality with a passion for what they do, in this case printing books.
I have no intention of doing an e-book version. I like books, I like their weight, I like turning the pages, I like propping them up in front of me while I eat, I like seeing them lined up on shelves, I like reading and re-reading and re-reading books. E-books just don’t do much for me so since it’s my book, no e-book version.
I hope you don’t mind but from time to time I’ll probably bump this post up since not all the members are on the site every day. Thanks.
So, the poll :
The chance of you NOT buying the book is slim to non-existent.
You’ll probably buy it but first want to hear what others say about it.
You might buy it if it isn’t too expensive.
You could go either way, all depends on what you hear, the phase of the moon, the results of the next election, which component group you’re riding.
The chance of you buying is the book is slim at best but who knows, miracles do happen.
The chance of you buying the book is non-existent, no matter how high on the NY Times best selling list it is.
A book! Is this a serious question or did the first of April arrive early.
I’m in the final stages of publishing my book on riding in France and am figuring out what size a run I want to do, or perhaps I should say how small a run I want to do. So I thought a poll here on the forum could be interesting. Just so you know before responding to the poll, the book won’t be cheap, around 35$ probably. The profusion of color photos printed on good quality, large format paper is mostly behind that. I think around 90% of the pages, maybe more, have color on them. A small run size isn’t conducive to driving the price down either.
The book is only going to be sold on-line via Vecchio’s and in any other bike shops that contact me with a desire to sell it. You won’t find it on Amazon or in any book shops, unless there’s some small shop somewhere who contacts me and orders a few because the owner loves riding and has exceptionally good taste in literature.
The book will be printed in China by an underage labor force of course. Okay, okay, just kidding, the printer’s in Colorado, kind of the equivalent of the smaller, professional local bike shop mentality with a passion for what they do, in this case printing books.
I have no intention of doing an e-book version. I like books, I like their weight, I like turning the pages, I like propping them up in front of me while I eat, I like seeing them lined up on shelves, I like reading and re-reading and re-reading books. E-books just don’t do much for me so since it’s my book, no e-book version.
I hope you don’t mind but from time to time I’ll probably bump this post up since not all the members are on the site every day. Thanks.
So, the poll :
The chance of you NOT buying the book is slim to non-existent.
You’ll probably buy it but first want to hear what others say about it.
You might buy it if it isn’t too expensive.
You could go either way, all depends on what you hear, the phase of the moon, the results of the next election, which component group you’re riding.
The chance of you buying is the book is slim at best but who knows, miracles do happen.
The chance of you buying the book is non-existent, no matter how high on the NY Times best selling list it is.
A book! Is this a serious question or did the first of April arrive early.