To Begin, the Gods - Amazon, Lulu, CreateSpace, Kindle, and free!

I’ve been experimenting with the ways to publish on the web. I took my Genesis version and tweaked it, restoring the literal translations of the names of God, using “Yahu” for YHWH and “the gods” for Elohim. Then I made a 102-page 6″x 9″ book that looks like this:

It’s available at Lulu: steeldragon @ lulu

And CreateSpace, who should be making it available through Amazon in a couple of weeks. I’m not providing CreateSpace’s link, because Lulu does nicer work.

To continue the experiment, I made the text available for the Kindle:

To Begin, the Gods (Kindle Edition)

There’s a free .pdf that should download if you click: ToBegintheGodsfree.pdf

Or you can read it on the web here.

I hope to do a proper blog post about what I’ve learned later—the quick version is Lulu’s finished books win for two reasons: Lulu will print on the spines of thinner books than CreateSpace, and CreateSpace’s bindings feel a little lumpy, while Lulu’s are nicely squared. But Lulu and CreateSpace both create acceptable books.

More book news tomorrow, most likely.