Spent the last 48 hours wrestling with the proofs of Otorongo.

The good news is I got the list price down from $28.99 to $18.99. Just when I thought I was grasping the logic of iUniverse's pricing decisions -- i.e., studying their online bookstore, checking out the pricing of different length books and concluding that the list price was set at approximately .065 cents a page, followed by figuring out a way of shrinking down the size of Otorongo from their projected 416 pages to my own Word file of 280 pages -- I was simply told that, without changing anything, it could be lowered to $18.99. So I am totally baffled. Why DID they want to price it at $28.99? No one would ever buy it at that price! There's no way it would make them more money! If they could just as well have priced it at $18.99? (Weird is what it is.)

However, there's no point in continuing to worry about it, since I got the price I wanted. Well, not exactly. 99 cents? I'd prefer $18.95 to $18.99. 99 cents just seems more like a clothing store or a grocery store than a book store. But, I'm not going to press my luck. I'll take $18.99.

So I finished the proofs and sent them in. Nervously awaiting the result.

Wowie! It might not be all that long until for $18.99 (or $3.95 ebook) you guys can order a copy of Otorongo and check it out for yourselves. (Not that any of you would. But you could. :) Is this real?

I guess we'll find out.