The proof copy of Such Words As These arrived today and Lightning Source have done an excellent job with it. Despite worries over colour management and icc profiles, the cover has turned out exactly as expected.

The final proof read of the book is now under way before we sign off and begin printing. At the same time the mobi format version is almost ready. A few teething troubles with mobi creator have now been resolved. We were experiencing a large number of crashes while trying to undertake simple actions such as adding a table of contents. Eventually this article pointed to the answer. Windows XP has been reinstalled and mobi creator is happy again.