Well much to my own chagrin, I just want to let everyone know that I am still working with the print vendor (Lulu.com) on completing Aether's initial test run. I had submitted my order on March 1, and here on March 24 I am still waiting on my order... or for that matter, any communication on said order.

Everything has gone through, PDFs complete, credit card billed, order processed, but after these many days I have no product. Three days or so after my order I received an email from their production department telling me that the file was too large and they could not rip (process) the file but not to do anything because they were sorting it out. My file was 400 meg's smaller than their 2 gigabyte limitation, so I responded saying as much and asking for next steps.

I have sent that request now three times and I have received only one response, stating they were going to forward my question to another department.

So as I stand here a bit embarrassed, particularly to those people who questioned my Lulu choice (which, despite my story still has a very high rate of satisfaction and success), it never fails to be the case that I am always the exception to the rule.

I can only imagine that this scenario is just a matter of misunderstanding, so I am still aiming for a May release. More to follow.

Moving ahead, however, I would like to research other POD printers; A few people have recommended a few already. Anyone want to add to the list?

-Kross