Re: [Harp-L] Harmonica for Dummies

[Richard Hammersley <rhhammersley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

More pages raise the production costs of the book. Below books that  
will be true mass sellers, publishers have their price brackets and  
marketing finely worked out, so they want to stick to size. Besides,  
for every book written too short the other 100 are written too long  
and could do with a trim.
Richard
On 7 Feb 2009, at 01:54, Joe and Cass Leone wrote:

> On Feb 6, 2009, at 6:02 PM, Winslow Yerxa wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the great review, Richard.
> >
> > I want everyone to know that space was my only reason for not  
> > including a mention of your CD. Late in the editing process we had  
> > to make cuts to keep the book within the required length.
>
> Something I always wondered. Why does a publisher get to determine  
> what is in a book and how thick it should be. Just another way 'tha  
> man' controls our lives. No need to answer. Just fodder for thought.
>
> keyser sosa
>
> > Originally I had two chapters with lists of artists and CDs. I very  
> > much regretted cutting down this information, as I wanted to give  
> > people a broad variety of listening. In the end I was forced to  
> > pare down the list of CDs to only the all-time "greats" while  
> > trying to keep some semblance of stylistic variety and pick CDs  
> > that readers had a good chance of finding in major retail outlets.
> >
> > Winslow
> >
> > Winslow Yerxa
> >
> > Author, Harmonica For Dummies ISBN 978-0-470-33729-5
> >
> >
> >
> >
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