On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 11:36:54 GMT, John Paquay
brought forth from the murky depths:

Thanks for the heads up, Larry.
There should be six total sheets in the sample pdf, although one of
those will be blank. The manual page numbers will not match the pdf
sheet numbers, but the pdf sheet #4 is the one that should be blank.
It's not like that in the actual manual, only in the pdf sample. I
just checked it and it came up as expected for me.

Huh? "I made a sample file and left a page intentionally blank"?!?
I expect to see an occasional blank page in a book but not in
someone's advertising "brochure". Your mileage obviously varies.


Just for the record, I don't publish this manual for the money -- my
time probably would be more profitably spent panhandling or collecting
aluminum foil and bits of string. By the time I pay for copying and
printing, binding, envelopes, postage, labels, and the like, I
sometimes wonder if I'm actually paying people to take the thing off
my hands.

It's good that you're doing it. Kudos. Speaking of panhandling,
I could always trade you one of my "Will Work For Food" kits for
one of your books.


I've long considered publishing the whole manual in a downloadable
electronic (pdf) format, but I haven't yet made that jump due to
considerations of the whole copyright/ intellectual property (and I
use that term loosely) issue -- but that option remains a definite
possibility. If anybody has thoughts on that issue, please feel free
to email me (it's almost certainly too far off-topic for the
newsgroup).

If you did that and just put up a donation button, you'd stop
incurring the printing costs and rack up pure profit, plus it
wouldn't be a time burden on you. People are now copying entire
books on their scanners and selling them, so a small one (31pgs?)
like yours has certainly already been snatched. Perhaps you should
jump in there and get your share before the bad guys do.

G'luck either way.


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