Thanks Robert!
I actually started it in 2004 and taught out of it for a few years, making changes every once in a while. My wife ran across Lulu.com (on marthastewart.com of all places) and I figured I would give it a try. So far things are going pretty well.
I basically tried to include everything I would need a beginning student to work on in the first several months worth of lessons, and some sample music for examples. I will probably do a book 2 next year...I'm sick of working on this one
I can't offer a CD included with the book through Lulu. I have thought of two options, one is offering the CD as a different product on Lulu (that is possible) or even better is just having the sound files hosted on my website and putting a password in the book for a special section on my website with "Foundations" supplements.
I need to fix a few small mistakes and then re-upload the book to get my ISBN number and bar code...then I can sell it on Amazon.com. After that, I address the sound file issue. I'm also getting a new computer in the next month or so and I should be better equipped to make quality sound recordings.
Thanks again for the kind words about the book, I really appreciate it. It represents a huge amount of work and it isn't a "sexy" kind of book like a lead guitar book or something of that nature that people would actively seek out. It is more along the lines of "eating your musical vegetables"....