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That Ken Whitman that posted about his uber great pricing is the same Ken Whitman that completely flaked out on my printing Wish3. He is a very nice guy, but completely and utterly unreliable. Last I'd heard, Larry Elmore had fired him, though perhaps he's back in favor - I'd ask Stephanie Law if you really want to know. I *don't* know, but I would not do business with this man unless you do not need to meet a deadline, don't mind being left in the dark for a month in a row and then spammed, and don't actually need any follow-through. His prices were competitive, but not worth the hassle. He has left me hanging since - literally - May of last year, and the books that he DID send me were not nearly the quality that I got from Bookmobile - 6 or so of the books out of 48 were miscut so badly that I wouldn't sell them at full price, and several of the bindings were slightly crumpled/badly connected. Also, they weren't of a perfectly uniform size - line 'em up together and some of them were off by 1/8-1/4 inch from copy to copy. I later found out that one of the books he sent was the wrong volume for the cover it had, and I had to replace it for a customer. Bookmobile, in comparison, had three bent corners (from shipping), *one* mangled spine and one book printed completely backwards out of 250 absolutely otherwise flawless ones.

I don't feel up to posting to the list at the moment, but wanted to give you folks on the list (or running into him anywhere else) a headsup. Let me stress, he's a super nice guy - I feel really bad having to say this, but I also don't want anyone to get burned by actually depending on him.