Kazu (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} boltcity) wrote,@ 2006-06-06 22:56:00 |
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I have seen Flight 3 and it is beautiful. Sitting in my living room with the warm afternoon glow, I had a nice time reading through the book in its paper form for the very first time. I had read all of the stories many, many times already in their digital form, but I was surprised at how different they all felt reading them like this. It was great. I had so much fun.
I'm so proud of everyone involved in this project, and I have to thank the fine folks at Ballantine Books for their dedication to the book, and for really opening my eyes to the level of professionalism afforded by the big trade book publishers. We already have ten times as many pre-orders for Flight 3 than we did for either 1 or 2, and the quality of the production is impeccable.
The first thing Amy and I noticed was that the satin finish of the cover felt really, REALLY good. It's the kind of finish that you feel on really nice trade books. The second thing we noticed was that despite being 80 pages shorter, Flight 3 was actually THICKER than Flight 2, because of the nicer paper stock. In any case, the book is a very nice package, and its contents continues the high quality set by the first two volumes.
