Publishing Poll

[labricoleuse]

It's not generally my practice to conduct polls, but i figured that this would be the best place to get relevant feedback regarding a few textbooks i have in the pipeline, which i'll be publishing by 2008. Please forgive my blatant market research, but it's in the interest of putting out the best possible textbook. The first two titles will focus on parasols and straw hats (which, if you have ever researched those topics at all, you know that it's particularly hard to find decent resources that cover them in-depth; i want to change that). I know what I like in a textbook, but i don't know that my preferences are everybody's preferences.

I've made the poll with boxes instead of buttons so you can choose more than one option.

[Poll #1035127]

Comments

[labricoleuse.livejournal.com]

That is exactly why i am planning to offer the book in more than one format (how many and what formats are the real questions here, i guess)--because i know that what's good for the career costumer isn't necessarily what's good for the hobby costumer. I like the idea that someone forming a professional library could get a durable print copy, but someone wanting to cover a single parasol for a Victorian costume party could choose the PDF instead.

Re the price, bear in mind that $35 is not getting a giant 500-page encyclopedic reference book, but that i'm talking like workbooky-sized technical production manuals.

Thanks for your input!

[naeelah.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I figured it was probably a smaller workbook. I still think $35 is definitely reasonable for a durable, hardcover book with plenty of color illustrations.