Book 6 (not an actual strip)

[NHJ BV]

<!--QuoteBegin-Gizensha+Jan 6 2006, 05:21 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Gizensha @ Jan 6 2006, 05:21 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> <!--QuoteBegin-NHJ BV+Jan 5 2006, 11:36 AM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (NHJ BV @ Jan 5 2006, 11:36 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> <!--QuoteBegin-Gizensha+Jan 5 2006, 06:31 AM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Gizensha @ Jan 5 2006, 06:31 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Yes, yes I will.<br><br>*rejoices with Bocaj*<br><br>Now... Will Book 6 be released in the US before Book 5 is released in the UK, or will I wind up waiting for Book 6 to be released in the UK to get it?<br><br>...Actually haven't checked that out for a while. Though, if there's an IDT book on the way, I think I'll wait and pickup Books 5, 6 and IDT1 at the same time from the US reguardless of Book 5's European release status. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br>Wait, O&M books are being released in Europe now? Since when? <!--emo&:huh:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... ns/huh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='huh.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br>Since Plan Nine got a European site. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> Oh, I hoped for a real release. Plan9 Europe has been dead for at least a year now, it seems. No news updates, the site still looks unfinished and amateurish, etc.

[Novil Ariandis]

You might find that interesting:<br><br>"We are working on getting the first four books back in print. As for the sixth book, we have not received the materials for that book from David Simpson." - Freitag the Order Troll <orders@plan9publishing.com>

[Richard K Niner]

<a href='http://rain-luong.livejournal.com/156497.html' target='_blank'>This</a> is probably why. In fact, the book is listed right <a href='http://books.lulu.com/content/210586' target='_blank'>here</a>.

[dcsimpson]

As Richard so astutely noticed, I'm actually not putting this one out through Plan Nine.<br><br>I hadn't announced it yet because I haven't had a chance to proof a copy myself (I ordered one when I finished, but these things take a few days). More on that later.

[DesertFoxCat]

8.5" by 11" ?!<br><br>That's huge! <!--emo&:o--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... s/ohmy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ohmy.gif' /><!--endemo-->

[Bernhard]

Huge? Hmm.<br><br>*calculates*<br><br>Oh yes, indeed:<br><br>216 <!--emo&:millie:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... millie.png' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='millie.png' /><!--endemo-->-metres by 279 <!--emo&:millie:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... millie.png' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='millie.png' /><!--endemo-->-metres <br><br>

[Richard K Niner]

*splashes 500 <!--emo&:millie:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... millie.png' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='millie.png' /><!--endemo-->-litres of water at Bernhard for the pun*

[Zaaphod]

Anyone else order one yet? I have. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... iggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--><br>

[DesertFoxCat]

I'm getting my people to make an offer they can't refuse.

[NHJ BV]

<!--QuoteBegin-Zaaphod+Jan 8 2006, 11:46 AM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Zaaphod @ Jan 8 2006, 11:46 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Anyone else order one yet?  I have.  <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... iggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br>I'm ordering now. Can't resist an introduction by <!--emo&:millie:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... millie.png' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='millie.png' /><!--endemo--><br><br>EDIT: $12,88 for international shipping <!--emo&:o--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... s/ohmy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ohmy.gif' /><!--endemo--> Plan9's service may be shoddy (see: book availability) but at least their shipping costs were dirt cheap. Oh well.

[Lissou]

I've just bought both books <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... iggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--><br>Can't wait to read them.<br>I'm still waiting for 4 om books I ordered in early November, by the way. Plan9 is... long. When I got the first one, I had forgotten that I'd ordered it <!--emo&-_---><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /sleep.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sleep.gif' /><!--endemo-->'<br><br>EDIT: by the way, 19.32 for my shipping. I guess it depends on where it's sent? Where do you live, NHJ?

[Gizensha]

<!--QuoteBegin-NHJ BV+Jan 8 2006, 01:39 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (NHJ BV @ Jan 8 2006, 01:39 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> <!--QuoteBegin-Zaaphod+Jan 8 2006, 11:46 AM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Zaaphod @ Jan 8 2006, 11:46 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Anyone else order one yet?  I have.  <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... iggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br>I'm ordering now. Can't resist an introduction by <!--emo&:millie:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... millie.png' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='millie.png' /><!--endemo--><br><br>EDIT: $12,88 for international shipping <!--emo&:o--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... s/ohmy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ohmy.gif' /><!--endemo--> Plan9's service may be shoddy (see: book availability) but at least their shipping costs were dirt cheap. Oh well. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> ...Actually, the plan9 shipping at the moment is the same as the price of the books available from plan9.<br><br>I just ordered book five.

[NHJ BV]

<!--QuoteBegin-Lissou+Jan 9 2006, 03:13 AM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Lissou @ Jan 9 2006, 03:13 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> EDIT: by the way, 19.32 for my shipping. I guess it depends on where it's sent? Where do you live, NHJ? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> The Netherlands. I hoped to save on shipping by ordering book 6 together with 2 and 4, but as Plan9 isn't getting book 6, that kind of really won't work at all. Anyway, I ordered 6 from Lulu and will order 2 and 4 from Plan9 when they get them in again.

[dcsimpson]

Plan 9 is having book-binding issues. To hear them tell it, their binder has bound the books, but won't hand them over. (Anyone else think there HAS to be more to that story?)<br><br>I know most of this second hand, since, well...they don't communicate much with me, or pay me very often (although when they pay me, they pay me in full), and their failure to keep my books in stock over the last two years has been a source of constant frustration. It may, for all I know, not be their fault. (David Allen has always been a fan and I know he wants to keep O&M in print; he's even suggested some new things which, if they get their binding issues sorted out, for all I know could still happen. Who knows?) But at this point intent hardly matters. I need the lost income and you need books. Yes you do. Don't argue with me. <!--emo&B)--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... s/cool.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='cool.gif' /><!--endemo--><br><br>Some other webstrip artists have had luck with Lulu (Brad Guigar of "Greystone Inn," another Plan 9 veteran, helped sell me on the idea, when I asked him about his experience) and, in fact, I had assumed print-on-demand technology would eventually reach this point. But maybe I'm getting ahead of myself.<br><br>Anyway, I will eventually purchase Lulu's global distribution service for both books, which will get me an ISBN number, the ability to sell through sites like Amazon and Borders, and also my books will be "made available in the UK through Bertrams and Gardners, who are wholesalers in the UK market." So those of you who are overseas, particularly in the UK, may see a price drop on shipping there. I'm not sure how that works. Right now I haven't got the $150 for each of the two books to spend on that, but once I've got a little money from this initial run...<br><br>Here's hoping for big things, eh? Or at least quality.

[Glenn565]

That sounds great. Selling through Amazon and making it avaliable overseas would definately increase potential sales(we won't know for sure untill it starts selling). Overseas shipping costs are a bi-...err, "big hastle." Yeah, thats it. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... iggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->