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2017-10-31 Announcement: Book publishing by h2g2

Post 1

h2g2 Operations

We have news!

We've collected 42 entries about Space, and they can now be purchased as the h2g2 coffee table book "Space and Space Travel vol 1"
at https://www.createspace.com/7667778 or https://www.amazon.com/dp/1978078587/ref=cm_sw_su_dp

Here's a quote from next week's Post(because no way could I write something as snappy as Dmitri can… smiley - biggrin):

"Do you know people who are beginning to do their Christmas shopping? You do? Then give them this link! We want to sell them a book!
Yes, friends: the long-awaited first volume of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition is now Available in Online Stores. Titled Space and Space Travel, Volume 1, this exquisite coffee-table tome features forty-two Entries on space, space travel, ufos, etc, by a variety of Researchers, taken from the Edited Guide. It's profusely illustrated. Tell all your friends, relatives, and acquaintances. What we hope to do, in addition to garnering a few bob to pay for Improvements, is to introduce h2g2 to a wider audience. Okay, and we really, really wanted to see our names on a coffee table. Tell your family to buy you one for Christmas. (We know it's pricey, but look at the quality!)"

We are aware that it isn't a cheap book. This is due to the colour illustrations, and the format, which counts for the majority of the cost. For h2g2.com, the margin is only a few pounds. We would have set the price lower if we could.

All the proceeds will go towards the maintenance and development of the h2g2 site, adding to the revenue from ads.

Share and Enjoy!

Milla smiley - cogs


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Post 2

Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor

Links for Luddites:

http://www.createspace.com/7667778 or http://www.amazon.com/dp/1978078587/ref=cm_sw_su_dp


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Post 3

h2g2 Operations

Ach. I should learn that.
Millasmiley - cogs


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Post 4

Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~

Oh dear, won't we get a lot of copyright problems with the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor? smiley - erm

smiley - pirate


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Post 5

Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor

We have solved that problem with the use of a time machine and a sneaky lawyer. smiley - winkeye


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Post 6

Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~

Ah, good. I should have guessed. smiley - ok

smiley - pirate


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Post 7

minorvogonpoet

It doesn't sound quite as much in pounds - currently about £22.39.


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Post 8

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

smiley - wow

Just in time to put under the smiley - xmastree


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Post 9

There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho

I presume smiley - dontpanic is on the back cover smiley - tongueout


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Post 10

Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor

Buy it and see. smiley - winkeye


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Post 11

ITIWBS

Re: Post 1, you've made a sale. Milla.


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Post 12

Baron Grim

I was disappointed that "42" was not a valid promo code. smiley - winkeyesmiley - towel


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Post 13

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

I'll buy at least one copy, maybe more.


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Post 14

z

I've just purchased it smiley - smiley


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Post 15

Baron Grim

It's been shipped! Arriving tomorrow. smiley - biggrin


I just hope it doesn't get added to my ever increasing Tsundoku. http://www.tofugu.com/japanese/tsundoku/


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Post 16

ChiKiSpirit III

You've written a Hootoo book? That's interesting...


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Post 17

Jackruss a Grand Master of Tea and Toast, Keeper of the comfy chair, who is spending a year dead for tax reasons! DNA!

One hopes its not full of effing poetry smiley - winkeye


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Post 18

Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor

There are no poems. smiley - snork


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Post 19

minorvogonpoet

I woudn't mind poems, but hope there aren't too many Hard Sums. smiley - doh


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Post 20

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

I'll suspend judgment until I see the book.


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