Now Available: The Fresh Loaf Pocket Book of Bread Baking
The Fresh Loaf Pocket Book of Bread Baking e-book is now available for Kindle on Amazon.com for $4.99 [1].
A Nook edition is available on Barnes & Noble's website [2] for the same price.
I'm having a hard time writing much more about it because I really don't enjoy tooting my own horn. I'll just say I'm proud of what we've put together and hope it will a worthy expression of our shared passion for bread baking.
Originally I thought this e-book was just going to be an aggregation of the content and lessons I've already posted here, but in the end Dorota and I put a great deal of work into this. The community feedback on the first draft [3] was tremendously helpful and many adjustments and additions were made in response. We also found that once we read through the entire text there were a number of inconsistencies and omissions that are no big deal on a website where you can instantly search, ask a question, and interact with other bakers, but that are a larger problem in a work that is meant to stand on its own. These past few weeks we've tried hard to remedy those shortcomings and, with the help of friends and family members in publishing, to achieve the level of editorial polish that you would expect from professionally-produced content. In the end, this became a fairly substantial work, one that I hope readers will find an economical yet still high-quality introduction to bread baking.
I would love TFL community members' help kicking this off. A few positive reviews on Amazon and enough sales that non-TFL members notice it when browsing the e-book charts will make a tremendous difference in the ultimate success of this project.
Again, thank you all again for your feedback, words of encouragement, and on-going support.
Humbly,
Floyd