Great Auk in the works
The next reprint I'm currently working on: The Great Auk, by S. Grieve. Fascinating book for natural history buffs and anyone interested in extinct species. Lots of information on where bones have been found, along with early accounts of sighting (and in many cases, eating) Great Auks.
I scanned it in on Monday, started checking the OCR Wednesday, and took a couple days off for the holiday. Hope to begin formating sometime next week. This will be a standard black-and-white reprint (non-facsimile), probably at the 8 x 11 size. There are two color plates of the Auk's egg, which will be reprinted inside as b-w, but will probably add them to the back cover so the color scheme can be seen. (Since the auk itself was black and white, I guess you could technically say the inside sketches of it are in "living color.") The only difficulty will be the large folded map that is included in the book, as it is in color. It should reproduce OK in black and white (I've played around with it in Photoshop), and I think I may add a free downloadable pdf copy of it on CoachwhipBooks.com so it can be seen in color.
I may wait until after Christmas to put the book out, not sure there's enough of a market to warrant pushing it through too quickly. (Plus, folks need something to spend their Christmas Amazon gift cards on after the holiday...)
I scanned it in on Monday, started checking the OCR Wednesday, and took a couple days off for the holiday. Hope to begin formating sometime next week. This will be a standard black-and-white reprint (non-facsimile), probably at the 8 x 11 size. There are two color plates of the Auk's egg, which will be reprinted inside as b-w, but will probably add them to the back cover so the color scheme can be seen. (Since the auk itself was black and white, I guess you could technically say the inside sketches of it are in "living color.") The only difficulty will be the large folded map that is included in the book, as it is in color. It should reproduce OK in black and white (I've played around with it in Photoshop), and I think I may add a free downloadable pdf copy of it on CoachwhipBooks.com so it can be seen in color.
I may wait until after Christmas to put the book out, not sure there's enough of a market to warrant pushing it through too quickly. (Plus, folks need something to spend their Christmas Amazon gift cards on after the holiday...)
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