Horace Heffner wrote: It might be worthwhile to produce a Stanza readable format too, although a > Mobipocket reading version of Stanza (a free iPhone app with 1,000,000 > distribution currently) . . . >
If you and Stephen Lawrence would advise me on how to go about doing that, I will. I doubt that the formatting will be a challenge, now that I have the book in Kindle's HTML. I do not which of these formats you two describe is which, having no experience with these electronic gadgets. If you would contact me via private e-mail with the page to upload the file, the formatting information and so on, I would appreciate it. After I upload the book, you should download a copy and let me know if there are any formatting problems. As you noted the price ($0.80) is not going to prevent many readers from downloading. It costs at least $8 to print the book in lots of 100, so I cannot distribute it on paper without causing price resistance. This illustrates the immense advantage of the Internet and electronic documents for people advocating unpopular causes on a shoestring, not to mention long-shot political candidates with odd names such as Obama. If I sold only printed copies of the book, the way Hal Fox used to sell his book, I doubt that I could have sold more than a few hundred copies so far. Most would have gone to my friends and relatives, and the people here, which would be preaching to the choir. This would have had no effect whatever. I cannot tell whether the book has had an effect, but it may have because I have given away 21,000 copies from LENR-CANR.org, and similar numbers of other popular papers. Regarding Obama's strange-sounding name, here is a thought provoking video from 2005: http://www.motherjones.com/riff_blog/archives/2009/01/11781_the_first_obama.html QUOTE: ". . . [this was ]was Obama's first mention by a stand-up comic on the network . . . The jokes are, in fact, rather tame, imagining how Obama's name might strike people as a little "too black" if he were to run for president, but for that reason they're actually kind of cute—that was *us*, just a few years ago!" This goes to show how quickly things can change when the need arises and the situation allows change. This should give us hope for cold fusion. - Jed
