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Marketing Loft [Public] / Amazon no longer does the "heavy lifting"?
« Last post by Gregg Bell on March 27, 2025, 05:30:57 AM »
A while back in the forum here I mentioned that if you run a great launch promo, Amazon will take over and do "the heavy lifting." Someone replied: 'Amazon no longer does the heavy lifting.' Well, I was about to launch my promo and either didn't believe it or didn't want to believe it. Now I've run my promo and the results are dreadful. So--say it ain't so!--it's true that Amazon no longer does the heavy lifting?
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Bar & Grill [Public] / Re: Silly Spammers
« Last post by Jan Hurst-Nicholson on March 27, 2025, 12:48:33 AM »
Quote from: LilyBLily on March 24, 2025, 12:29:31 PM
You do realize that no one wants pianos these days and mostly one has to pay to have them hauled away to the dump? The innards of a piano that is old have to be completely replaced, so the value of an antique piano is usually in its case only. Nice wood, special wood, interesting design, etc. We have one in the family: a grand piano, although thank god not a concert grand, which runs even larger nearly 100 years old. It takes up a lot of space in a modest living room in the kind of modest house that doesn't have a "great room" or a "family room." The problem is, the person it was willed to has such serious tinnitus that it is never played anymore. So it is rotting from the inside, and meanwhile there's too much sentimental value attached to it to let it go. We know someone who ended up chopping up a piano to get rid of it economically. It may come to that.

So, no, you do not want a piano. It is the modern equivalent of a white elephant--the original white elephant, that is.

They've been targeting retirement homes in SA. My friend's retirement home was scammed. They thought a piano would be a lovely addition to their entertainment. The committee even discussed where it would go.  :icon_rolleyes:
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Bar & Grill [Public] / Re: The Garden Thread that two people wanted
« Last post by Jan Hurst-Nicholson on March 26, 2025, 01:07:39 AM »
We've got lots of the purple flowering cacti, but this is the first time I've seen a green one.  :)
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Formatter's Forge [Public] / Re: Spine paperback problem
« Last post by Bill Hiatt on March 25, 2025, 10:54:03 PM »
Try to choke an answer out of Amazon support. If that doesn't work, can you approach your cover designer? Maybe the designer will do a revised version for a fee that would be worth it just to not have to keep dealing with the problem.
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Formatter's Forge [Public] / Re: Another Size Poll
« Last post by Post-Crisis D on March 25, 2025, 08:38:09 AM »
Quote from: Lorri Moulton on March 25, 2025, 08:30:27 AM
Ebooks Palatino 12 pt...

Do you specify a font size for eBooks?

I just let them default to the device preferences so it doesn't override whatever specifications the reader has their device set at with regard to their preferred body text size.
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Formatter's Forge [Public] / Re: Another Size Poll
« Last post by Lorri Moulton on March 25, 2025, 08:30:27 AM »
Ebooks Palatino 12 pt...paperbacks Palatino 10 pt.  :)
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Formatter's Forge [Public] / Re: Another Size Poll
« Last post by Post-Crisis D on March 25, 2025, 07:08:04 AM »
To throw another wrinkle in there for you, not all fonts will appear to be the same size at the same point size.

That is, one font may be fine for a particular person at 12 pt but a different font at 12 pt may appear too small for that same person.
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Formatter's Forge [Public] / NOT Another Size Poll
« Last post by R. C. on March 25, 2025, 07:02:22 AM »
This is NOT "Which font..." or "Which point size..." is best...

For fiction, this poll is to gauge preference amongst this cohort.

Why? I am trying to talk myself into changing fonts. Of course, some fonts are easier on the eyes when larger. Others can be smaller but may not have a nice aesthetic.

The hive mind will have an opinion that I can factor into my decision.

TYIA
R.C.
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Formatter's Forge [Public] / Re: Spine paperback problem
« Last post by alhawke on March 25, 2025, 05:22:35 AM »
No, I meant that I was changing the font of the internal text for the entire book. My idea was to shrink the entire book by page length to see if that would work. It didn't.
I don't know how to adjust the spine on the cover. The typography on the spine was created by my cover designer.
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Formatter's Forge [Public] / Re: Spine paperback problem
« Last post by Post-Crisis D on March 25, 2025, 02:58:18 AM »
Quote from: alhawke on March 25, 2025, 01:02:17 AM
I've tried to shrink the font . . .

How are you adjusting the font size?  Is the text still editable?  Or has the text been rasterized and you're just adjusting the rasterized text image?

If the text on the spine is still editable and not rasterized, try rasterizing it and see if that makes a difference.  That is, make sure the text is no longer in an editable font but that it's been turned into a vector or bitmap or whatever format the cover is in.  Flatten it, merge layers, whatever.  Just make sure the text is no longer editable.  Then see if it accepts it.

If Amazon's system is able to detect text, even rasterized, then that won't work.  But, if Amazon's system is only able to recognize editable text, then rasterizing the text may work.
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