Just some silliness for today. I've been trying to put up one video per day on YouTube, and only some of them are related to writing and fiction.
I'm a little bit behind, but I've got a couple of video book reviews that will soon be posted here. I've gone through First Lensman and On the Beach.
Anyway, today's video about "writing" is actually about the effect that (I think) Amazon print-on-demand is having on the book industry. The old-school 4" x 7" book size seems to be getting less popular, and newer, larger sizes are popping in.
I just did a paperback version of The Chasm of Color, and 5" x 8" was the smallest size they allowed!
At first, I thought maybe it was the market adjusting to people being more used to reading on screens, with their 9x16 aspect ratio (in portrait orientation), but maybe not, after looking at it more closely.
Also worth noting that this video was partly inspired by this episode of The Wordy Pair Podcast.
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