[FM Discuss] How is the printed MYOSA selling?

[Adam Hyde]

Hey James. There are no upfront costs for using lulu.  I can explain how it works of you are interested (will have to be nxt week tho). Adam

"James Simmons" <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:

>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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