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Old 28th August 2012, 05:06
Jukka Juutinen Jukka Juutinen is offline
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Re: JG 2 - Volume Three

Lagarto, I consider Ospreys for $15 poor value for money as you can buy many Stackpole reprints 3-4 times the length for the same price.

Erik, I for one appreciate those details like the letter you quoted. I have heavily criticised a certain Finnish author's unit histories for lacking these kind of details, most of the text being in the style "...on 1854 hrs 12 planes took off...returned to base one hour later without losses".

As for "fancy" font, the fact is that for JG4/1 and JG/1 you chose Arial, a sans-serif font that is totally out of place in an expensive premium book. Arial is in fact often used for bloody school reports! I surely won't like to spend my entire monthly book budget on any book looking like a bloody school report, no way. Plus the largish font with largish spacing means that you are using more pages than necessary, and this hikes up production costs, storage costs (more space and weight) and shipping costs. By a quick estimate by a better layout the page count could have been easily shaved down by some 15-20 % with not insignificant cost savings.
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