[FM Discuss] the muddle the model

[adam hyde]

huh?

On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 13:42 -0500, Andy Oram wrote:
> 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.

im talking about anyone organising the printing locally and selling the
copies and keeping what they make...thats a risk, but i think its an
interesting opportunity...i dont see the need for fm to underwrite
this...

adam




> 
> Andy
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "adam hyde" <adam at flossmanuals.net>
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> 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
> 
> 
> 
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