[FM Discuss] the muddle the model

[Andy Oram]

Maybe you could find funds to reimburse some of the price, because 1) if I buy 5 or 10 copies there should be a modest discount for bulk orders (which FM would effectively provide) and 2) I'm taking a risk because I might not sell them all. I could call it a donation, but it would be easier to do if FM shared some of the risk.

Andy

----- Original Message -----
From: "adam hyde" <adam at flossmanuals.net>
To: discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 1:24:56 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [FM Discuss] the muddle the model

hey

just a few thoughts about print on demand. we just finished the
Collaborative Futures Book Sprint. Its licensed CC-BY-SA and the
festival (transmediale) that funded it is printing 300 copies with a
local print on demand service...the cost is about 3 euro per (144 page)
book...

this makes me think a little about the fact we have all these cool books
in fm and i would like to encourage anyone on this list to get some
copies made using print on demand and sell them at conferences etc...if
u can get 300 printed a 3 euro each and sell each for 10 bucks that 7
euro per piece that will help pay your rent...

we should really encourage this model since it helps gets the books out
their and is something of an diy economic model...thats part of the
point right?

adam



-- 
Adam Hyde
Founder FLOSS Manuals
German mobile : + 49 177 4935122
Email : adam at flossmanuals.net
irc: irc.freenode.net #flossmanuals

"Free manuals for free software"
http://www.flossmanuals.net/about

_______________________________________________
Discuss mailing list
Discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
http://lists.flossmanuals.net/listinfo.cgi/discuss-flossmanuals.net

-- 
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Andy Oram  O'Reilly Media                     email: andyo at oreilly.com
Editor     10 Fawcett Street, Fourth Floor         voice: 617-499-7479
           Cambridge, MA 02138-1175, USA             fax: 617-661-1116
           identi.ca/twitter:praxagora http://www.praxagora.com/andyo/
----------------------------------------------------------------------