[INDEXED]PURE (DELUXE LIMITED SPECIAL EDITION) by Julianna Baggott

[Brian James Freeman]

So it looks like the Big Boys don't like to play nice. Do they not get a cut of the limited sales and that is why they do that? It would seem to me that the author would have a little bit more control of there art.

When it comes to books that are licensed from a New York publisher, the New York publisher is paid the advance and royalties for the Limited Edition and that money is put toward "earning out" the advance the author was paid by the New York publisher.

In general, the New York publishers have gotten kind of twitchy about "protecting" their own trade sales. They seem to think our little edition is going to "steal" sales of their editions, which is silly thinking to me when you're talking about books that are hitting the bestseller lists. A diehard fan of the author is going to buy both editions. A collector who buys our edition and then reads it and becomes a fan of the author is now more likely to buy future trade editions by that author. At least that's how I see it.

Brian

[bookworm 1]

So it looks like the Big Boys don't like to play nice. Do they not get a cut of the limited sales and that is why they do that? It would seem to me that the author would have a little bit more control of there art.

Proofreading just finished up on this one, so it's now on the "ready for the printer" list. I'll have a better idea when it'll be sent when Richard starts sending the spring titles next week.

We're noticing a trend lately with the books we buy from New York, by the way. They're not sending us text files until after the trade edition has been published and in many cases the text files are in a format that can't be easily used, so we end up having to OCR a brand new book like it's a 30 year old reprint, which means a lot of copyediting and cross-checking and extra steps. It's really slowing down production...

Brian

[srboone]

Thanks, Brian.

[Brian James Freeman]

Any updates on this? The second part of the trilogy comes out in trade HC on 19Feb.

Proofreading just finished up on this one, so it's now on the "ready for the printer" list. I'll have a better idea when it'll be sent when Richard starts sending the spring titles next week.

We're noticing a trend lately with the books we buy from New York, by the way. They're not sending us text files until after the trade edition has been published and in many cases the text files are in a format that can't be easily used, so we end up having to OCR a brand new book like it's a 30 year old reprint, which means a lot of copyediting and cross-checking and extra steps. It's really slowing down production...

Brian

[srboone]

Any updates on this? The second part of the trilogy comes out in trade HC on 19Feb.

[RJK1981]

Congrats!

[bookworm 1]

This is great news.Congatulations again CD.

This one is now sold out pre-publication.

[srboone]

Great to hear! Congratz!

[Brian James Freeman]

This one is now sold out pre-publication.

[Brian James Freeman]

I see you did update it to being proofread but you didn't put the lil green UPDATED thingy next to it. Maybe you did it on purpose I dunno but I thought you forgot to update it then I looked for it and you did but no green updated with it.

Oops, done now! Thanks!

[Teriw]

I see you did update it to being proofread but you didn't put the lil green UPDATED thingy next to it. Maybe you did it on purpose I dunno but I thought you forgot to update it then I looked for it and you did but no green updated with it.

[Brian James Freeman]

This book has been with the designer for a long time

It's being proofread. I'll change that in the next update.

[Teriw]

This book has been with the designer for a long time

[srboone]

I have a lot of trouble signing signature sheets. After about 10 sheets, my hand starts to cramp up and the signature becomes junk. I've had to switch to just signing my initials, and a 750 copy run might still take me a couple of days.

Brian

I know what you mean, Brian. I stopped signing anything "Squire" years ago. It's "SRBoone" now, or just "SR"; turns out, it's really confusing to people who have known me all my life--Whydidn'tSquiresigntheXmascard?Whydidn'tSquiresign this?Whydidn'tSquiresignthat? If only they knew...

[Teriw]

Depends on what I am signging sometimes Its initials. I dont exactly do around signing 750 copies of something I wrote but when I sign paperwork its TWeatherbee at work its TLW. Its Just easier.