John Fairbairn wrote:
Is there a quality issue we should know about, or is it just anti-Amazonism - or even just snobbery?
I've bought quite a lot of POD books from Amazon and been delighted with the quality (though the books' lives are admittedly still in the short term). I bought Aji's Quest via Amazon and noticed nothing better or worse than any other books from Amazon, except delivery took a lot longer.
For my own books I choose the best quality paper, which adds to the price. Maybe other people go with inferior paper?
As to Aji's Quest itself, I admire the artist immensely and got a smile on every page. The only niggle is that the publishing name is Board N'Stones. It was like a mote in my sensitive eye. It should be Board 'n Stones (also as per the OED, incidentally, and as in fish 'n chips). On the other hand, it uses 'board' instead of 'goban', so all is forgiven.
Dear John,
Thanks for the questions. I try to answer.
Well, there are some hassles with Amazon's CreateSpace, but none you may exposed to or have to worry about.
Indeed, your books have a good quality and there is nothing to complain about. I have a long relation ship with my printing company, knowing the good and bad, and stay happily with them.
BOARD N'STONES, well, you may argue where the apostrophe has to be. There are arguments to have even two of them, but that doesn't look nice at all and so it was no option for me. By the way, Wikipedia claims fish and chips to be fish 'n' chips... (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_and_chips).
However, as I am not a native English speaker I took reference from another example of probably improper usage:
Have a look.... Sorry about that. I guess, you may already have had several times motes in your sensitive eyes...
Thank you for forgiving. Gunnar