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book [2017/11/04 09:38]
bpaddock Try to fix photo formatting. | book [2018/10/15 13:11]
bpaddock Got rid of red and green cover editions. |
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| "//Karen's first-hand account of her illness gave an honest, heart-wrenching depiction of what it is like to live with debilitating pain day-to-day.//" - Reporter Savannah Barr, September 8th 2014 cover story of The Derrick Newspaper. | "//Karen's first-hand account of her illness gave an honest, heart-wrenching depiction of what it is like to live with debilitating pain day-to-day.//" - Reporter Savannah Barr, September 8th 2014 cover story of The Derrick Newspaper. |
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| [[https://www.createspace.com/Preview/1173100|Book Preview]]. | |
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| The contents of all the books listed below are exactly the same, only the cover colors and title vary. | |
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| **The cost of the physical paper book is $14.25, the cost of the Kindle version is $2.99.** | **The cost of the physical paper book is $14.25, the cost of the Kindle version is $2.99.** |
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| {{:kpaddock:karenbookred20150704.jpg?350 }} //INVISIBLE: Karen's Journey with Invisible Disability: How debilitating head pain and Levaquin (Levofloxacin) Killed Me// is to support those with Hidden Disables or Rare Diseases. Pricing is same as the foundation version above. This version has world wide distribution via all possible channels available from the publisher. | |
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| Unless this is the title or world wide distribution that you need buy the purple one above. | |
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| [[http://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0110HOPHU|Kindle Edition $2.99]] // | |
| [[http://smile.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1511504137|Amazon $14.25]] | |
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| {{:kpaddock:karenbookblue20150704.jpg?350 }} Color edition. I really don't expect anyone to buy this at this price. See below as to why this costs so much. :-( | |
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| [[http://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0110GAUQ6|Kindle Edition $2.99]] // | |
| [[http://smile.amazon.com/Karens-Journal-Leak-Headaches-Chronic/dp/1508654301|Amazon $42]] | |
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| **The Publisher Create Space //no longer sells directly//. Sadly must now always pay the Amazon markup. :-( If you do want buy a quantity of five or more to give away to your doctors and/or family [[bobpspam@gmail.com|contact me]] to discuss now to get at lower price.** | **The Publisher Create Space //no longer sells directly//. Sadly must now always pay the Amazon markup. :-( If you do want buy a quantity of five or more to give away to your doctors and/or family [[bobpspam@gmail.com|contact me]] to discuss now to get at lower price.** |
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| {{:kpaddock:karenbookgreen20150704.jpg?350 }} If you need to buy in bulk to give away many copies to Friends, relatives and //doctors//, a version is available. | If you need to buy in bulk to give away many copies to Friends, relatives and //doctors//, a version is available. |
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| ====== Why so many books that are the same? ====== | |
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| Why are there //four// books that look seem the same?: | |
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| When I first got the idea to turn //Karen's Journal// into a book I figured publish one nice color version for $7.99 and distribute it worldwide then be done with it. Sadly I did not know anything about book publishing at that time. I've learned a lot since then. | |
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| Color books are //significantly// more expensive than Black&White books. :-( Distributing world wide also adds to the cost. :-( I had wanted the book to be cheap enough that people would want to buy an extra copy or two and give to their family or doctor. | |
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| So to do want I wanted I had to split the book in to a full color version that costs so much few will buy it and a low cost version that I hope is low enough to buy extra copies to give to family and doctors that "don't get it". | |
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| Someone then told me that the book would reach a wider audience with a different title which is the red book cover. This book is available on Amazon and has every possible distribution channel, world wide. | |
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| I had wanted the royalties to go to the Spinal CSF Leak Foundation. Sadly the IRS would not allow that. A separate account was setup by the Foundation to keep the IRS happy which sells only the purple cover book. | |
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| I see people are selling the books at a discount, I do not know anything about that. Find it a bit annoying actually. | |
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| ====== Book ====== | ====== Book ====== |
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| The books started out as Karen's: **//[[:kpaddock:my_story|My Story]]//** found here on the web site. | The books started out as Karen's: **//[[:kpaddock:my_story|My Story]]//** found here on the web site. The web site is the original draft of the book. The actual book |
| | The book has been heavily edited and refined since that was written and has //now been professionally edited and formatted//. |
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| The book has been heavily edited and refined since that was written. | |
| Sometime in the future, Real Soon Now, the book contents will be back ported to replace that so they are both the same. | Sometime in the future, Real Soon Now, the book contents will be back ported to replace that so they are both the same. |
| | I have not been able to muster the emotional energy this requires from me to do it yet. :-( |
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