[FM Discuss] the muddle the model

[John Curwood]

So basically you're encouraging anyone to print off copies of the
manuals and then sell them for their own profit?  Thats cool and very
much in keeping with the Free Software philosophy.

John


On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 19:50 +0100, adam hyde wrote:
> 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>
> > 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
> > 
> > 
> > 
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