PX This.

Finally! Yay!

The Amazon page is currently under construction (and God only knows how long that’s going to take to complete), but PX This – The Revised Edition is finally available for sale in the medium of dead trees. Hooray!

Now, before you go criticizing the insanely exorbitant price tag of $29.99, please bear in mind:

a) Neither Abbe Diaz, Pee Ex This Dot Com, nor any of its subsidiaries/affiliates have any control over said price tag. It was calculated by the publisher and printer, based entirely on page count.

b) The price is a reflection of the print version’s "short run" process. This means, unlike in "traditional" publishing, PX This is printed, distributed, and sold in small batches, contrary to the (previously) conventional practice of mass printing books in the thousands, tens-of-thousands, or hundreds-of-thousands of units and dispersing them widely, nationally or internationally, just so said units can eventually end up on bookstores’ forlorn discount tables at 90% off the "suggested retail price."

In other words, yes, you are paying out the wazoo for the print version of PX This – The Revised Edition so you can save trees— and thus subsequently, the world.
The trees and the world thank you. And likewise, so do we.

c) In an effort to offset this insanely exorbitant price tag, PX This – The Revised Edition is currently being offered for FREE in a digitized e-book Portable Document Format. The PDF is compatible with iPad (with GoodReader), Kindle2+, any Mac/PC, or netbook.

What’s the catch, you ask? No catch. Just iterating the deducible obvious: PX This is not in it for the benjamins, homeslice. We’re fucking artists, goddammit!

d) Eventually, PX This – The Revised Edition (and PX This Too – The Sequel to PX This) will be available via Amazon’s Kindle Store and Apple’s iBookstore as well— as soon as either or both realize it is an author’s inherent right to publish an e-book in the font style of his/her choice.
Sure, go ahead and argue if you want, you indignant fascist font anal control freak— but would daVinci allow a museum to exhibit the Mona Lisa with purple hair?! We think NOT. (Also, e.e.cummings is sooo rolling over in his grave right now over this shit, bitches. Shame on you! For shame, for shame.)

In any case, we anticipate the price of those e-versions will be $8.00 — a reflection of the current cost of e-conversion, the gray hairs and wrinkles accrued from fighting the good fight, and the percentage share for Apple/Amazon who, ya know, could both really use the money, evidently.

The PDF version will remain free of charge— yeah, not so jazzed about the funky "page-turning" and the font choices now, are ya?

** PX This is also proud to present, by popular demand, The Ministry of Speed © by Abbe Diaz (as referenced in PX This) for your curiosity and/or reading pleasure. **

Thank you for your kind encouragement and continuing support.

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