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inhuien wrote:Do you offer tick?

Ummm . . . ?

bassduke49 wrote:Thanks, folks.

In order to ensure a sellout of the book, I hereby reveal that it was actually penned by J. K. Rowling.

Well, the book does have a lot of magic in it...

bassduke49 wrote:

inhuien wrote:Do you offer tick?

Ummm . . . ?

Scottish vernacular for an informal credit arrangement.

Ah. No, sorry.

inhuien wrote:

bassduke49 wrote:

inhuien wrote:Do you offer tick?

Ummm . . . ?

Scottish vernacular for an informal credit arrangement.

You Scots do speak a different language...

Paul's book got written up by Bass Player!... bit of a pleasant shock to me as they almost went out of their way to ignore Rics in the past. The write-up is light but clearly favorable.

http://www.bassplayer.com/article/the-r ... tom/152062

Wow! Extremely cool!

bassduke49 wrote:John Hall saw the book in pdf format as he was kind enough to do a fact check.

I don't expect plaudits. John has already stated that he will not carry the book in the Boutique as he has issues with the publisher.

Indeed, I have not yet seen the finished product. What I did see during fact check was excellent, well presented, concise information.

The fact that we don't think much of the publisher's business practices is no reflection on Paul's great work.

I still wish for a book, not only about basses but also guitars, similar to Jim Elyea's or Brian Kehew's or Rittor Publishing that has more tech spec, but that would be a very significant project.

cassius987 wrote:Paul's book got written up by Bass Player!... bit of a pleasant shock to me as they almost went out of their way to ignore Rics in the past. The write-up is light but clearly favorable.

http://www.bassplayer.com/article/the-r ... tom/152062

While it is nice to see mention of the book on various websites, many of these will read the same. The publisher utilizes a PR firm who sends out a canned press release. And that's it. I was really hoping some mag would do an actual review of the book, but it's likely too early for that.

johnhall wrote:Indeed, I have not yet seen the finished product. What I did see during fact check was excellent, well presented, concise information.

The fact that we don't think much of the publisher's business practices is no reflection on Paul's great work.

Thank you, John!

the book is great!
very nice and great pictures!
will the book ever be available in digital format?

Press release or not, the BP article was a great piece that will wet the mouths of many musicians for the book.

Regarding digital editions: I presumed that digital editions were automatic these days, but not so. Turns out the publisher is still not settled on a system for electronically publishing graphic-heavy books such as mine. My contract with them covers my compensation for digital-book sales, but that doesn't mean that they will happen any time soon, apparently. For right now, paper is the only medium.

As far as I care, paper medium is just fine!

Just got mine in the mail tonight! I will share my thoughts once i have had the chance to read it... The graphic layout is lovely though!