Re: coloring book...

On 5/11/2024 11:13 AM, John wrote:

On Fri, 10 May 2024 23:11:29 -0700, "Chris M. Thomasson"
<chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> wrote:
 

Hello everybody. Well, I just managed to publish my first book called
“Fractal Life 247 Coloring Book”. A coloring book of all things! Lol.
:^) Well, it's 99 pages of some of my algorithms that I managed to
render in a way that are able to be colored by others. Mostly vector
fields, escape time fractals, some triangle and circle work, ect... I
actually coded up a C++ program that generates the book. So, its rather
interesting. It was a pain in the you know where to get the margins,
trim and full bleed factors right, but it finally passed verification. I
set the price at 7.42$. I was thinking about 11.42$ but chose the
previous prime from 11 at 7. Then, after I submitted it, I noticed that
7.42$ is 247 in “Fractal Life 247” in reverse! Strange. 742 is a fun
number! Well, is the price okay? Too expensive? This is my first book
and setting the price is harder for me than creating a new algorithm.
Very strange indeed. Oh well.
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Any thoughts?
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Thanks everybody. :^)
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Here is a link, it just went live. Can you get to it on your end?
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D3WHP7RZ?ref_=pe_93986420_774957520

   Oh, good advert! Well crafted.
   Okay, so I went there, mostly because I like you. :)
   First, Amazon presented me with a CAPTCHA. That bugged the fuck out
of me. It is yet another reason for me to avoid the company.
   Next, you say "7.42, they say "9.99". Inflation? Greed? Amazon's cut
of the profits? Whichever way, it's false advertising.
   Last, no sample pages? There's a "read a sample" clicky but it
doesn't respond.
   Oh, and it's "$11.42" not "11.42$". Even us UKlanders know this. Not
that I'm thinking of buying it, not when shipping to merry, old UKland
is $7.77 for the slow path.
   See, *I* can get the currency symbol in the right place and I've
never even *been* to USAlia. :)
   Hmm, is this a book for children? Or 50-year-olds who are still sort
of like children? "Colouring Book" is going to get it put into the
Children's section of many bookstores. Lots of till-girls don't read
news-groups and don't do Maths. :)

Some of them might be too complex for children, too many places to color. Although some pages are easier than others. Perhaps a way to get children involved with math through interesting means? About the price. Shit. I was advised to increase the price to 9.99$ by many people as soon as possible. Inflation was actually a little part of it... They said 7.42$ is too cheap for my work.
Fwiw, I am starting a companion book that shows some of my algorithms and how to implement them in C++.
https://i.ibb.co/GMy2h0j/image.png
My whole book is in a program called ct_color_book.
At $9.99 I make $3.15 per book. At $7.42 I make $1.61 per book. So Amazon KDP takes a nice chunk...