After some time and lots of efforts by the authors and - I dare to claim that - the editors the third BlogTalks book will hit the (virtual) shelves in a month or even faster.
I can tell you all those self-publishing services are time bandits. First it took me two months to figure out that Booksurge (an Amazon company) is supposedly run by inverse mechanical turks. Either my sales agent didn’t reply for weeks or was not capable to answer my questions and sometimes after some time she (or it) sent me commodified marketing mails about their service. That really drove me nuts. She would have failed the Turing-test in any case.
Eventually I decided to cancel my engagement with Booksurge for the sake of making the book public before the turn of the decade. It’s a pity though because - and that was my interest in the first place - I wanted the book to be part of the Amazon.com directory and not only the Amazon.de one. I have no clue how to achieve that - I’m grateful for any help on that.
In the end I decided to go with Books On Demand (German) again: Another pain in the ass (ask Jan) to get the files the way their publishing engine can accept it. 
And we haven’t seen any results yet.
For your information here is the cover and the link to my (very personal) intro to the book.
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Tags: BlogTalk, Books, Conferences, Customer-Experience, Research, Writing
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A good intro Thomas. The personal style of it is, I think, precisely the point to make. Like the bookcover as well (and not just because it has my name on it
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LG
Ton
Thank you Ton.
The drawing on the cover is from my little daughter
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