Re: Re: Fooled again! eBooks and truth in labelling

Joseph Harris
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  Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 3:36 PM
  Subject: Re: [ebook-community] Re: Fooled again! eBooks and truth in labelling


  From: Kent S. Larsen II 

  At 2:09 PM +0000 2/11/08, you wrote:
  >From: Kent S. Larsen II
  >......
  >
  >Sometimes publishers ask book designers to tighten up the book to reduce the page count as a money saving measure. Other times, .
  >.........
  >Kent
  >
  >Oh Kent, what a cynical man you are! ;-)
  >
  >Book designers actually design; the purposes are manifold. Of course they include what you suspect. But probably not as much as you think.
  .............>
  >Joseph Harris
  >

  Uh, Joseph, I think we are saying the same thing.

  Just so its clear, I've worked in book publishing for almost 20 years now. I publish books myself and do a little designing of the low-end books I publish in order to make them viable.

  I didn't think I was being that cynical. 

  ...............

  Yes, the designer has made the book look "attractive and easy to read." But I'm also quite sure that the designer was asked to bulk up the book. BTW, the list price (in approx 1990) is 17.95. Perhaps reasonable for a book of 160 pages in hardcover. But really hard to justify for a hardcover of a book that is just 25,000 words.

  Again, I don't claim this happens all the time. Its the exception, not the rule. But it does happen.

  Kent



  Oops!   I had taken the extract from your post of about 15 hours ago, but obviously had not noted the post you were responding to.   And then I saw your later post which did say almost the same as I wrote.

  For some reason my post left here before I read that later one though!   Clearly my remarks should have been directed to Daniel ;-).

  My apologies;  I'll try to stay more alert ;-).

  Joseph Harris



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