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rob: Good point, Amelia. The hours people spend reading are the greatest cost involved. Given that we sometimes get fooled and buy books we don't enjoy, it's nice to have a low cover price, too--if not for the successes, at least for the rejects.Rob
amelia: You may buy books because they are cheep (so you can fill a bookcase) or because you may or may not want it. But I hope people do not read books because they are cheap. time is to valuable
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Rob: Thanks, Amelia. Still, lots of people seem to think that stupid people doing stupid (embarassing) things is the ultimate in humor.Rob
amelia: I am with you. I do not find people doing stupid things funny. I find that people think I am funniest when I say the truth. Odd.
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Rob: Hi Amelia,Yep, you're right. Paper is okay although I think it's faster to look up words on the computer.--Rob
amelia: I thought Reboubt was some type of fort. So I was close. I looked it up in the dictionnary. Yes paper
Operation: World Wide: Just surfing through to spread a little peace and joy. Have a wonderful week.
Rob: Thanks, Clare. And what a fun site you have.--Rob
Clare: Wonderful work you are doing!! Keep it up! You have my support!
amelia: mom got here safe and sound. She said that I have a lot of food in the frig and was looking forward to stilton cheese. On the way home I will try to get some fig pine nut bread to go with it.
sparkle: Hi I am visiting the neighbourhood today and stopping in to say you have a lovely day
Rob: Hi Amelia,Sorry to hear about Da Vinci. It's possible your reading habits are a bit more sophisticated than the average. Since I get paid for sitting in basements, it's not all bad.rob
amelia: P.S. I got DaVinci code on tape. Listened to it but got annoyed. felt manipulated so stoped also felt like I knew the end already. Finally I think goddess worshipers can be just as bad as any other religion.
amelia: good luck on your classes. What a bad Idea sit in a basement in Hawaii while Karen plays outside.
amelia: Looks like you have a Texas walaby on the cover of your latest book,
Rob: From the spam I get, Lea is probably the only one not e-mailing me. My address is in my tag.--Rob
Lea: Hello Rob, I can't get any of your e-mail addresses to work... I would like to send you new submissions from Spotlight authors. Please let me know where we can reach you with review opportunities. Thanks!
Rob: Hi Amelia,Yes, that thought had crossed my mind as well. The slowest reader controls the remote. --Rob
amelia: group reading. No everyone reads at a different pace. who will be the one that changes the page?
Rob: Hi Amelia,The spammers must have figured out a way to overcome the safeguards. Hope this doens't mean I have to take it down again.Rob
amelia: what is with these odd tags? If we have a nuculr war and any one survives I dont mind if they take all the paper books I leave.
julai: hi,good day!I'm blog hopping to gani more friends since I'm just a newbie in the world of blogging. I like this site, I love to read novels.
Kris: Hello - I really enjoy reading your blog!
Rev. Handy: Just wanted to say hello and God Bless...
Lutchi : nice blog you got here...Visit me at my blog when u have time. TC
amelia: nothing is indistructable and when it wears out you want it to be recycleable. Also I am hearing about electronics being a trash problem.
Rob: Hi Amelia,But why recycleable? Why not just keep using it?Rob
amelia: priced so it will not be stolen, easily adapeted for large print, very light weight, very simple to use, hard to break, recycleable,
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amelia: be carefull of what you wish for.
Rob : Hi Amelia--Thanks for the feedback. Hope all is well with you. Want to hear about Africa.--Rob
amelia: great write up on you site.
amelia: Rob sorry about the horid flight. give my love to Pennie.
Brandon Doyle: Just out blog surfing.
rob: Thanks, Kristina. I appreciate the wishes--and hope that 2007 will be a great year for all of us. Steve, thanks as well. Momi--back at you. And Gentlesnob, I really do understand the appeal of paper. I understand the appeal of vellum, too, but I don't think we're going to see a comeback in that technology. Paper has had its day and its day isn't quite over, but it's on the way out. Hybrid technologies like print on demand machines are cool--but are like adding air conditioning to mulecarts.--Ro
Kristina O'D: Happy New Year, Rob, Karen, and all the BookForABuckers! May peace and goodwill rule forever!
Kristina: Happy anniversary, Rob and Karen! I wish you many many more, happy, lucky, healthy, surrounded by your loved ones.

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Saturday, September 22nd 2007

7:22 PM

Home from Hawaii

After a week in 'paradise' I'm back home in Texas where it's hot. It was hot in Hawaii, so it's not really that big a switch, except it's really quite hot here. After about 12 hours flying in freezing cold airplanes, the heat felt great--for about half an hour. After that, it just felt brutal. So, welcome home to Texas, Rob. I'm not sure I'm going to spend the rest of my life in Texas. The large number of aggressively conservative (as in, if you don't agree with them, you're a traitor) turn me off and the heat gets to me, too. On the other hand, BooksForABuck.com is really going to have to crank up sales if I'm going to buy a house somewhere else.

I posted most of my reviews today once we got home. I've got reviews of THE COWBOY'S CHRISTMAS PROPOSAL by Judy Christenberry (www.booksforabuck.com/rompages/rom_2007/cowboy_christmas_proposal.html ), BECAUSE OF A BOY by Anna DeStefano (www.booksforabuck.com/rompages/rom_2007/because_of_a_boy.html), A HIGHLANDER FOR CHRISTMAS by Sandy Blair (www.booksforabuck.com/rompages/rom_2007/highlander_christmas.html ) and THE ELVES OF CINTRA by Terry Brooks (www.booksforabuck.com/sfpages/sf_07/elves_cintra.html). I'm happy to recommend any of these. Tomorrow I'll post a review of the excellent HAUNTING MELODY by Flo Fitzpatrick. Now I'm reading AGNES AND THE HITMAN by Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer. Because we caught the red-eye back, I didn't get much reading done on the plane--finished the DeStefano book and did some more work on submissions.

I got the new proof copy for FINDING FUNBOY by Matt Golec and it looks great so I gave it the go-ahead. It should show up on Amazon soon. The good news is, we'll actually make a few pennies on Amazon vs. the old approach where I actually lost money every time someone bought one of our paperback books (even before paying royalties). Clearly that's no way to run a business.

Karen and I are doing our best to stay up to a reasonable hour so we can go to bed and get re-adjusted to Texas time. We never adjusted to Hawaii time but it would be unfortunate to be stuck in the middle now that we're back.

I'm going to make THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA by Karen Leabo the www.BooksForABuck.com book of the day. An FBI agent goes way over the line when he thinks a Mafia leader will get away with murder. Still, kidnapping the leader's sister is bound to cause trouble--and when he starts feeling the attraction, he knows trouble is the understatement of the year. Only $1 for this complete eNovel. Learn more, read the excerpt, or buy the eNovel here: www.booksforabuck.com/rompages/devilsea.html. (HTML, Adobe PDF, Palm DOC, and zipped Microsoft Reader formats). Here's the cover (cover design by Karen Leabo):

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