Anybody still read dead-tree books? · 7:42pm Apr 7th, 2019
They're like FiMfiction, only you can still read them after your laptop's battery has died, or when somebody's thrown your phone in a lake!
So yeah. Aquaman's Bronycon Bookstore project is going apace (even though we're not allowed to call it that). And, as a result, I've started fiddling around with formatting The Flash Sentry papers (or at least the first four stories) into a single, dead-tree volume. Like, I just went through and reformatted the footnotes just this afternoon. And I dare say footnotes are even funnier on paper, but that's just me. Exciting, no?
Perhaps MORE exciting is the super-rad cover art iisaw hooked me up with. Check this out!
Now, BronyCon's not 'til August, and the deadline for the bookstore is in July, but I fully intend to get my order in for the actual dead-tree versions in well before that. Which leads to the question ... just how many of these should I print? Which is an obtuse way of saying 'who would actually want this?' My plan's to keep costs as low as possible, so these'll just be fun little paperbacks rather than big fancy hardback tomes.
And heck, even if you can't make it to Bronycon, I'd be happy to mail hardcopies out as well. But before we get into the nitty gritty of shipping (and not the fun Rarijack kind), I'd just like to know how many copies I should plan on having printed. I mean, it'd just be embarrassing if everything at the BronyCon Bookstore (which will be named something different, eventually) sold out of everything BUT my book, which is something I fully expect to see happen.
Man, inventory juggling is weird. That's Capitalism, folks!
I'm going to have to arrange two different Bronycon budgets, one for the bookstore and one for everything else.
I'm in
Will there be an exclusive promotion in it? Like a short side-story as a bonus for those who buys it at the con?
I won’t be at Bronycon but would certainly be interested in getting a copy :-)
I definitely want a copy!
I'd buy it
Suggestion: after Bronycon, toss it up on Lulu for people to buy.
I have been trying to get back into those, recently.