[FM Discuss] How is the printed MYOSA selling?

[James Simmons]

Anne (and everyone),

I neglected to bug you last week about getting sales numbers, but this week
I'm interested again.  Can you get the current sales of MYOSA for me?

Thanks,

James Simmons


On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Anne Gentle <annegentle at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi James - just a note to say, I am still working on getting the numbers
> for you. I did also want to echo the point Adam made that there's no setup
> cost for Lulu. You may be thinking of Amazon's setup costs, which are around
> $40.
>
> Thanks,
> Anne
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> 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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