PellucidWombat



Mountain climber Draperderr, by Bangerter, Utah Nov 8, 2011 - 08:58pm PT 5)Incremental Releases:



Finish enough of the web project so that you can roll it into a nice e-book to get started. You can easily add photos & illustrations and fine-tune the book easily from user feedback (maybe you could have a paid web portal or something like that first? This would be a more complete & formal version of what you already have going on with the free sections). Once the fine tuning is done and you've done the slower part of making enough photos & illustrations to get readers by without videos, release a printed version for people who like pulp to carry to the crag & write on.





One thought it is that after you have a collection of videos and still photos, you can probably more easily determine what needs to be illustrated and what style would work well. This has been helpful to me in making graphics to illustrate concepts.



Illustrations are great for close study of the physical arrangement of things, but they fail to show movement, which is really key in climbing! You can also show and demonstrate a lot of little things much more expediently in one well planned video rather than making lots of drawings or a lot of descriptive text that might be hard to visualize. I've found your videos extremely helpful and unique from what I have read in print books. You could even include the videos on a CD to ship with the book, and reference the videos within the text.



So I think you should have some illustrations (or better yet, photos in most cases), but use videos extensively. I've really liked the PDF versions of SuperTopo and they allow more unique ways of making a books with hyperlinks & embedded videos. Exploit that niche!