Well, yes, I am. "Abandoning Paradise" is well underway and most of the material from the blog, except for pictures, has already been merged into it. Getting an ISBN is about $40 so that will wait for a couple of weeks but that should be plenty of time to get the book put together for publication. It will be released as an iBook to the iBookstore and I'll price it at $1.99. You can tell the iBookstore the countries into which the iBook should be released and it will convert the price to the appropriate currency.
The only question about the book is how much to extend the text that's already there. All of that was written very close to the moment so it could be quite easy to sterilise it by modifying it too much after coming off the road with no worry whether Haximoto will start in the morning.
An iBook doesn't do you much good if you don't have an iPad so the next plan after the iBook is to also release the book as an ePub as well. Technically, that would require another ISBN as the content would not be identical to the iBook version even if the difference is only due to image placement, etc.
Another plan beyond that is to get a hardcopy at a little print shop near here. With that in-hand I can get it duplicated. It's not a formal print run but it would get a copy to those who wouldn't be able to read it any other way. That could be expensive so more to be discovered on doing that.
A PDF is possible but they're pretty horrible. Regardless of the horribleness of PDF, I'll get a version of the book to you one way or the other.
The only question about the book is how much to extend the text that's already there. All of that was written very close to the moment so it could be quite easy to sterilise it by modifying it too much after coming off the road with no worry whether Haximoto will start in the morning.
An iBook doesn't do you much good if you don't have an iPad so the next plan after the iBook is to also release the book as an ePub as well. Technically, that would require another ISBN as the content would not be identical to the iBook version even if the difference is only due to image placement, etc.
Another plan beyond that is to get a hardcopy at a little print shop near here. With that in-hand I can get it duplicated. It's not a formal print run but it would get a copy to those who wouldn't be able to read it any other way. That could be expensive so more to be discovered on doing that.
A PDF is possible but they're pretty horrible. Regardless of the horribleness of PDF, I'll get a version of the book to you one way or the other.
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