Submission + - Infinite Jeffs (amazon.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Ben Deeb says:
I wrote a book and you can buy it on Amazon!
1) With the assistance of a Python script that replaced every one of the ~550,000 words in Infinite Jest with "Jeff," while preserving punctuation, line breaks, etc.
2) I did not technically write every word, but I did teach myself Adobe InDesign to recreate the Infinite Jest cover and interior layout.
3) Though it is evident to me that this is, in fact, a book, Kindle Direct Publishing initially rejected it as "low-content." After hours of back and forth with Amazon representatives about the semantic substance of Infinite Jeffs, they agreed it qualified as Literary Fiction. I spent many more hours emailing with different representatives arguing that the title needed to bleed off the cover to mirror the original work, but this battle was lost.
4) While you can buy it, you probably don't need to. I have too many copies (as evidenced in fig. 2) and will almost certainly give you one for free.
5) I don't feel good about publishing on Amazon, but it was by far the cheapest way to print even one custom book, and I'd already spent too much time and money on this incredibly dumb bit.
I wrote a book and you can buy it on Amazon!
1) With the assistance of a Python script that replaced every one of the ~550,000 words in Infinite Jest with "Jeff," while preserving punctuation, line breaks, etc.
2) I did not technically write every word, but I did teach myself Adobe InDesign to recreate the Infinite Jest cover and interior layout.
3) Though it is evident to me that this is, in fact, a book, Kindle Direct Publishing initially rejected it as "low-content." After hours of back and forth with Amazon representatives about the semantic substance of Infinite Jeffs, they agreed it qualified as Literary Fiction. I spent many more hours emailing with different representatives arguing that the title needed to bleed off the cover to mirror the original work, but this battle was lost.
4) While you can buy it, you probably don't need to. I have too many copies (as evidenced in fig. 2) and will almost certainly give you one for free.
5) I don't feel good about publishing on Amazon, but it was by far the cheapest way to print even one custom book, and I'd already spent too much time and money on this incredibly dumb bit.
