On Mon, 1 Aug 2016 16:03:56 +0000, you wrote: >On 01/08/2016 00:54, brian wrote: > >> is published via Amazon's 'print on demand' services. We send Amazon >> the book as a PDF, they print a copy when somebody buys one. > >Have you looked at the price difference between B&W and 4 colour >printing? For this specific usage --- hearts and diamonds in red --- is >it worth the roughly six cents per page price difference? >
That decision wasn't mine to make. The first two books in the series had a LOT of hand diagrams and the person who was overseeing the entire project decided that the cost of colour was justified. As merely the author of most of one volume, I had no grounds on which to dispute that decision. >For ebook formats (PDF, epub, mobi, fb2, etc) the major issue with >colour is that most e-ink screens don't display them properly. For >non-e-ink devices, colour is rendered correctly. As such, colouring >hearts and diamonds in red is a non-issue. > Left to my own devices, I would have distributed them in purely electronic format, but see above. The decision to go with physical books wasn't mine to make. >> No conventional publisher would touch it with a barge pole. > >The organization that hired you to write the material is the publisher. Hired me? :) I wish... This is a volunteer project. What I meant by the sentence you quoted is that the circulation of these books will never be anything like large enough to publish via the conventional route. >As such, what is needed is a printer, not a publisher. > >Personally, for POD I'd rather go with Ingram Spark for non-Amazon >sales, holding off on CreateSpace until Amazon's non-stocking policy >makes using it imperative. On the flipside, IngramSpark mandates that >one knows exactly what one is doing, whilst CreateSpace mandates that >one be utterly clueless. > Yet again, not my decision. All I've undertaken to do is to document that part of the system where I'm the one who knows it best and send it as an Open Office file to the person running the entire project. I have had no part whatsoever in producing the first two volumes, and am putting in about 75% of the effort required to write the third (much smaller) volume. I've no grounds on which to dispute decision which have already been taken, I implicitly accepted them when I agreed to do the work. But thank you for your suggestions about the colour changes, I'm not sure I fully understand them as yet, but I will have a bit of a play with a test file and see what I can work out. Brian. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
