V'dibarta Bam

10:58 AM

@msh210 If you're going for printed and bound, I can say that I've bought two books published through Lulu, and both were physically well made.

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11:59 AM

@msh210 Yadawannaknow.

@TRiG Thanks. If we can manage to get a real publisher to help with the project, they can do a a lot of stuff for us other than binding.

@msh210 Nice

@msh210 Yes. (Just so you don't invoke "shetika kehoda-a" now and then reveal that your family uses some obscure Kenyan nusach.)

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2:37 PM

@TRiG Interesting: 40 results for "haggadah" including a series from a branch of an alma mater of mine. I think I'll contact an author or two ...

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Meta-Man

5:06 PM

Q: Out"date"d/unused tag

Sorry for the pun, but there's an outdated tag, jewish-date-series. Since we're not using meta-tags (and since the series seems to have stopped), it probably ought to be done away with.

5:21 PM

@IsaacMoses Darn. (I do have an obscure nusach. AFAIR I've seen only one hagada that does things my way: we sing "Vay'hi bachatzi halayla" or "Vaamartem zevach pesach" and also the next song ("Ki lo nae" IIRC) before the final bracha of halel and the fourth cup, but the rest of the songs ("Chasal sidur pesach" and IIRC "Adir hu" and "Chad gadya") after.)

@TRiG Thanks.

The last sentence of this question has not really been addressed by the answers, and is the question duplicated at judaism.stackexchange.com/q/27504. Any objection to my removing it from here and reopening that as no longer a duplicate? (Ping also @DoubleAA.) — msh210 2 days ago

Seth J

5:43 PM

@msh210 Huh. Weird. Uh, I mean, how unique!

;-)

Category:Self-publishing companies

6:08 PM

@SethJ :-)

Companies that provide assistance in self-published books.

List of self-publishing companies

The following is a list of companies that provide assistance in self-publishing books, also known as vanity presses. This list includes only some self publishers and is not a complete list of all existing self publishers. * American Biographical Institute * AuthorHouse * Books LLC * BiblioBazaar * Blurb, Inc. * CafePress * CreateSpace * FriesenPress * Famous Poets Society * iUniverse * Kobo Writing Life * Lightning Source * Lulu * Outskirts Press * Poetry.com (also known as the International Library of Poetry) * PublishAmerica * Smashwords * Tate Publishing & Enterprises * Trafford Pu...

@TRiG Yeah. I know next to nothing about any of these, except for what you said about Lulu.

@msh210 @TRiG lifehacker.com/100295/notes-from-self+publishers

@IsaacMoses The only one I know is Lulu. Some of them charge you up-front (avoid that!), but Lulu is print-on-demand. They also assign ISBNs, so that the books can be ordered through normal channels (books can be purchased through Lulu directly, or from any bookseller, online or off, who uses the standard distribution channels (i.e., just about anyone)). I also know an author who set up her own company to self-publish her own book.

You can also buy your own set of ISBNs and assign them yourself, in which case you, rather than Lulu, will be listed as the publisher.

@TRiG Thanks. That sounds like a good situation.

6:21 PM

amazon.com/Jesus-Mo-Volume-Mohammed-Jones/dp/…

I bought that one from my local bookshop (I don't like buying online, because I'm rarely home when the postman comes, and collecting from the delivery office is a pain). They had to order it in, but it arrived fine.

(I'm not trying to push Lulu here, by the way; I'm trying to push getting an ISBN.)

@TRiG Thanks. I'm convinced that producing a bound volume and not getting an ISBN would be a half-measure.

@TRiG Is "delivery office" standard Irish English for the place from which postmen are sent to deliver things? Do you know whether it's British English too?

(We call it a "post office" in the States.)

@msh210 Hmm. I think it might be "sorting office", actually.

@msh210 (I thought @TRiG meant something like an office in an apartment building that received deliveries.)

@TRiG Well, I mean, the usual thing people call it. "I'm going to the...." Not the official name.

@IsaacMoses Oh! Is that what you meant, @TRiG?

6:27 PM

The Post Office is in the centre of town, right near where I work. You can post letters there, and buy stamps, and do various financial transactions. But the work of sorting post and delivering it is done from an out-of-town warehouse: the sorting office. And if you get a parcel too big to fit through your letterbox, you get a slip of paper telling you to come and collect it from the sorting office. And that's a pain when you don't drive (also, it's closed on weekends).

@TRiG I see. Thanks!

@msh210 Buying from bookshops is more fun, anyway. You can browse, and chat to the staff, and they'll order anything in for you, take your phone number, and send you a text when it arrives. Then you can stroll up the road at lunchtime, or on a Saturday, and pick it up.

@TRiG Indeed. Bookstores are always interesting places. I've never picked anything up from one on a Saturday, though.

@msh210 Well, that was the impersonal you. ;)

@TRiG :-)

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8:25 PM

@Dori If you're talking about me, it was a little more complicated than that.

8:45 PM

@TRiG If you're expecting a response from Dori, don't hold your breath.

@IsaacMoses :D

I read backlog. A lot. I don't know why. I have more productive things to do with my time.

@TRiG I hope you're not also proofreading it.