lulu.com- opinions of prices, please.

oh, and I actually think that perfect bound 6x9's are not too terrible expensive, so long as you're printing 100+. It's something I've considered, and at $4 a piece, i don't think it's too bad. But would I pay 15 dollars to read someone else's e book? No way.

Yeah, that price is exactly what I meant. The only mitigation is that they aren't available anywhere else. I'd far prefer people to buy the downloads.

The point is that if people used readers for e-books, authors could do a lot more, and much more cheaply. This is "kill a tree on demand for an exorbitant price" and I can't say I like it.

Nice to know the price isn't totally prohibitive. What is really starting to worry me is that e-readers can and should be LCD quality, running on watch batteries. LCDs don't really use a lot of power. Attaching an entire infrastructure to a reader isn't a good idea, particularly with the battery racket so irritating, and I couldn't agree more that the feel of a book is a very important factor.

That said, I really mean I could provide the equivalent of a book and movie with good portable formatting. For that same ridiculous price you'd get the equivalent of both, with added stuff. No problem for me, because I think the bloodsucking prices for media are absurd, as well as being commercial suicide, and I've got so much material that I could do about ten of those a year. Even with added music.

I was actually thinking of planting a few forests. The middle of Sydney would be one spot. It's getting a bit garish.

I can rthink of a few other cities that would benefit having a forest planted in them.

The five books currently online are:The three Threat-Hamster books. As the name suggests, there isn't a hamster anywhere in the half million words. They're a send up of literature, SF, and the human race. They're also a lot of fun to write, and I don't seem to be able to stop.

"Ads" is a relatively straight novel, which I'd been trying to write for years until I got the characters right, then they wrote it for me.

"Gardening is A State Of Mind" is the sort of book I think would appeal to anyone whose dog has taken over the financial markets and whose cat has founded a religion, while their spouse lives underground and makes sandwiches suitable for exhibition in art galleries. The mentality of gardening should really have its own noun.

The new one, soon to be on lulu, is "Gothic Black", and it's all horror, including the tale of odd doings in the little town of Pithcurdle.

If that explains anything...

I can't wait to read the one's you mentioned, when I get paid from here it's what I'll put some of the money too. Another member of mylot has recently written a bunch of horror stories too, I'm a sucka for the one's based on actual passed on stories.

Keep up the good work!
~Joey

P.s Any chance of getting a signed copy?;)