[FM Discuss] How is the printed MYOSA selling?

[James Simmons]

Anne,

I greatly appreciated all your work on the cover of MYOSA. Since I
would be depending on you to do the same for the other book, I'm
especially interested in your opinion on whether there are enough
printed copies of the first book out in the world to justify that much
work.

There would not be that much work for me.  I already have a pretty
good style sheet worked out and it looks like changes to Booki will
eliminate much of the page-break fixing I had to do last time.

I know there are up-front costs the site paid to get the book on Lulu
too, and I'm wondering if the book actually paid for itself, or is
likely to.

Thanks,

James Simmons


On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Anne Gentle <annegentle at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi James -
> It can be a race between Adam and I. :) I can get that information for you
> but not from this computer, so give me the weekend to look it up.
>
> The E-Book Enlightenment full-color was beautiful. Really enjoyed getting
> that as a result of the Kickstarter donation.
>
> Anne
>
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:37 AM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm thinking that I might be getting close to the point where I could
>> prepare "E-Book Enlightenment" for publication by Lulu.  The Rural
>> Design Collective did a printing of about 25 copies of that book some
>> months ago, and they did a beautiful job on what I considered to be an
>> unfinished (but still useful) book.  If I did a printing with Lulu I'd
>> want it to look more like a regular FLOSS Manual, with a white
>> wraparound cover, etc.
>>
>> The thing that makes me wonder if doing the work required for this is
>> worthwhile is that I have no idea of how many copies of the printed
>> book "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" have been sold.  Since the FM
>> website gets what profits there may (or not) be I'm thinking you would
>> be able to give me a count.  Obviously it was fun for me to have a
>> printed book available but I do have to wonder if doing the same thing
>> for the second book would be worth the effort.  I can always just make
>> an e-book out of it and post it to the Internet Archive.  (MYOSA got
>> 67 downloads from there so far).
>>
>> The RDC might want to do another limited printing too.  Their printing
>> was in full color and really showed off the great artwork done for the
>> book in a way that the normal FM printing would not.  If only a small
>> number were interested in getting a printed copy that might be a
>> better way to go.
>>
>> James Simmons
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