About E-art books from Ramblin/Rose Publications 

HOW E-ART BOOKS ARE PRODUCED: To accomplish my mission of “show & tell art” I format the E-book using Corel Draw™. After approval of the book by way of format, graphic design, color and number of production copies, I then use Acrobat™ to produce a PDF file: the most common acceptable file transfer method employed for Internet transmission of documents and any other printed matter. I enable the PDF file on my Website, as a free download but secured as a “read only” file; locked from print and alteration by the person who downloads the PDF file. The download explains that if you want to print the book your self you must pay a small fee. This fee is collected on Google Checkout™; PayloadZ ™ , which then accomplishes the download. If the buyer prefers to have a full color printed book, spiral bound with many pages suitable for framing, or gifts, they pay another fee and the book is sent from the publisher to the person placing the order.

SPECIFICAIONS OF THE LIMITED EDITION BOOKS: Books printed in Mexico on 200gms of quality coated print paper; images are all in high resolution (300dpi or better); all are 8 ½ X 11 inches, they are spiral bound, allowing for you to open them easily. You may frame any page by simply removing it from the binding. Shipping within the USA is included in the purchase price; other countries may require an additional charge.

ARTIST STATEMENT: As a visual artist I face the well-known problem both of how to get to show my art in proper venues and also how to communicate my creative concerns. I have enjoyed some success in showing my work, but nothing like that of many contemporaries. I write about my work, which largely created in series, and afterward I display the images alongside the written material on my Website: www.salazargallery.com.  I recently found another way to show my art and to communicate the stories behind the images: I am publishing my work as E-art books (electronic books). Far from a new concept, electronic publishing is an increasingly an important medium in which books may be transmitted and read. Art books are notoriously difficult to get published, and even if one self publishes, the cost and problems of marketing become far more difficult than other POD books.  

Up until now, I haven’t any idea how this method will be received. E-books are sometimes free and at other times charges are required.  There are many choices on the Internet: specific sites where one can get books downloaded. With the new hardware offered by Amazon, (Kindle) one can read the e-books offered on any sort of handheld device.  
                  
My new way of communicating is certainly no ‘breakthrough’ in publishing. It is merely one way the ‘little’ folks in the market place may attempt to reach an audience. It would be nice if it were successful and economically rewarding! But as with the process of creating artistic images, the joy is in the mere doing, rather than in their marketing.  

Artists have a voice, yet we often refrain from expressing how our work has been completed and what it means to them in the doing.  We often hang back, saying: “ I do the images, but it’s up to you to express what they mean.” True enough! But this is an age when communication using both sides of the brain might assist us better than casting aside one side, favoring only the other.