Re the format, just wanted to say that typically Abu Ali's name would be on the front and details like acknowledgements or copy editors would be, if at all present, in the inside cover. It's convention, and it's neater, and I think for this particular book you need to give it as much of a polished appearance as possible to get it taken seriously by a more skeptical audience, and yes--that does include usernames and CEMB stuffed somewhere inconspicuous if mentioned in the first place. Just my opinion, doubter_seeker.
I think that's a good idea, just have Abbas Abdul Nour's name and Abu Ali's on the title page, and then the rest could go on some other page. The acknowledgments, should be mentioned as far in the book as possible, like you said. Thanks for the suggestion!
Yep, I agree - an acknowledgement of the efforts of all here on CEMB.
See above.
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It's probably better just to stick with nick names, just to be on the safe side. If this goes viral, God knows what could happen.... I have to keep reminding myself that before I post the final PDF/eBook/whatever versions, I have to manually inspect the meta-data in the files and make sure that there's nothing in there that could identify me....
And Abu Ali is so insanely humble that he may not even want the spotlight, but I would be remiss if I didn't mention that he should be getting all of the credit for this project, and he's been working on it for so long. Acknowledgements and editors should be somewhere separate and less conspicuous, as is the case for most any book, no matter how many people supported the author/translator along the way.
He did all the work, especially the really hard part which is actually translating this beast. We owe him quite the debt. All I did was some copy/pasting and some formatting!
I've started reading. I would be suprised if it doesn't go viral.
Get the popcorn ready then!
I am more worried about how to have Muslims discover it in the first place.
We could go all trolling on Facebook/Twitter/[insert social media website here] and spamming links, but that probably wouldn't be very respectful. We could probably figure out a means to get it featured somewhere, and let other people make it go viral! Anyone here is good with this marketing stuff?
I'm going to go with what you guys suggested here and push other contributors' names (including mine) far back in the book. Will make the effort look more polished and professional, and hopefully people will take it seriously.
Topic: Discussion about "My Ordeal with the Qur'an"