tantramar, 5 months ago

@mattgemmell this is very exciting news! congrats!

dzamir, 5 months ago

@mattgemmell, how dare you produce something with a consumption device?

Grampa Simpson Meme GIF by MOODMAN

DJDarren, 5 months ago

@mattgemmell Absolutely correct.

mattgemmell, 5 months ago

@DJDarren Must be the time of day I always use it (late morning), but I didn’t even know that Ferrite had a dark theme.

DJDarren, 5 months ago

@mattgemmell iPadOS light mode is like staring into the depths of the sun. Dark mode 4 lyf.

ctietze, 5 months ago

@mattgemmell :)

Which printing service do you use? the annotations below the crop sound suspiciously useful!

mattgemmell, 5 months ago

@ctietze Ingram these days. The way it works is that you specify the trim size, paper stock, page count etc, and it produces a custom template with suitable guides, in the right colour-space and at the appropriate DPI. Also generates the barcode from your ISBN. You can try it here: https://myaccount.ingramspark.com/Portal/Tools/CoverTemplateGenerator

ctietze, 5 months ago

@mattgemmell Thank you! Never heard of Ingram. Will check out how they perform and what people printing from Germany think 👍

mattgemmell, 5 months ago

@ctietze They’re good. They have print services locally in the EU, UK, and US (the old LightningSource facilities). The main benefit of Ingram is that they’ll also handle catalogue-insertion so that regular bookstores know about the book, and also handle Amazon, both in terms of the catalogue and supplying copies for warehousing.

ctietze, 5 months ago

@mattgemmell Thank you! KDP royalties are higher, so that requires some convincing, but at least it's not playing into Amazon's market dominance in all things web shops and books.

Was that a motivator for you to look for alternatives, too?