Good News, Bad News
The biggest (good) news first: The FLEX Book will go to press this Sunday.
I have finally decided on a print shop, after a long, agonizing search.
I should receive the finished books by the end of November.
The bad news is, this printer does not offer hardcover binding yet.
So it will be a softcover once again, but at least there should be huge improvements in binding quality over the previous books.
I discussed this problem with them at length, and they convinced me that they had a much better and more reliable way of binding and would take extra care to keep this book from falling apart. They sent me some samples and despite attempts to bend open the book really wide the pages didn’t come out unless I really ripped them out. So that should be a lot better.
The huge advantage of a softcover edition of course is the lower price, both in printing and in shipping. It’s obviously not 1999 anymore, so Volume 3 of the book will be more expensive than the previous one, but it’s at least in the same price range, and not double or triple of that price (I had a lot of offers in that price range, too, and a hardcover edition would have been even more expensive.).
I will send out an email tomorrow to all the people who pre-ordered, with price, postage and payment info.
If you haven’t received this mail by Friday please order again, your order possibly was lost in my PC crash earlier this year.
I will also update the Book web site at
http://flexbook3.googlepages.com/
soon so you can just order online.
Oh, and the last good news for today: The printer is able to print the first batch of copies with an alternate sleeve, so there will be a limited and numbered edition again for the first prepaid orders. This time it’s called the „Hell“ edition, by the way.
I have finally decided on a print shop, after a long, agonizing search.
I should receive the finished books by the end of November.
The bad news is, this printer does not offer hardcover binding yet.
So it will be a softcover once again, but at least there should be huge improvements in binding quality over the previous books.
I discussed this problem with them at length, and they convinced me that they had a much better and more reliable way of binding and would take extra care to keep this book from falling apart. They sent me some samples and despite attempts to bend open the book really wide the pages didn’t come out unless I really ripped them out. So that should be a lot better.
The huge advantage of a softcover edition of course is the lower price, both in printing and in shipping. It’s obviously not 1999 anymore, so Volume 3 of the book will be more expensive than the previous one, but it’s at least in the same price range, and not double or triple of that price (I had a lot of offers in that price range, too, and a hardcover edition would have been even more expensive.).
I will send out an email tomorrow to all the people who pre-ordered, with price, postage and payment info.
If you haven’t received this mail by Friday please order again, your order possibly was lost in my PC crash earlier this year.
I will also update the Book web site at
http://flexbook3.googlepages.com/
soon so you can just order online.
Oh, and the last good news for today: The printer is able to print the first batch of copies with an alternate sleeve, so there will be a limited and numbered edition again for the first prepaid orders. This time it’s called the „Hell“ edition, by the way.
flex - Nov 1, 14:55
