On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Thorsten Jolitz <[email protected]>wrote:
Laurent Artaud <[email protected]> writes: > > > Le 21/07/2012 20:05, Thorsten Jolitz a écrit : > > >> Terry Palfrey <[email protected]> writes: > > >> BTW > >> I just found out that there is an upper limit for book size (at > >> Amazon some 870 pages or so) in self-publishing, so if I include the > >> function reference (some 200 pages) and the rosettacode examples (huge), > >> what I really would like to do, there might be no other choice than > >> making it two books (i.e. there might be two different covers ;) > > > I fear that the price tag for a book this size would be outside of > > what I would pay for. > > > I would suggest that you consider PDF or ePub: it would both remove > > the maximum size limit and reduce your publication costs. > > With the 2 volume solution, Vol.1 with all the docs, references and > articles would probably have some 330 to 350 pages, and might be still > affordable. Vol. 2 with the function reference and the rosettacode > examples might be twice as big. I think ebooks are often included in > self-publishing offers. Adding limitations where none exist is not a good practise. There are many people who wish to have and to hold a print version of a book. They will pay for their preference or not. A PDF and a ePub and any other electronic version is not mutually exclusive
