[FM Discuss] How is the printed MYOSA selling?

[James Simmons]

Adam,

No need to explain.  I'll find out for myself eventually.  I'm working
on a book (not a computer manual) that I intend to publish on Lulu
and/or Amazon.  I just assumed that there were some setup costs.  If
there aren't, and Anne has already done much of the work of creating
the cover (which I believe she has) then that makes the decision to
create a book for Lulu easier.

I'm still interested in the sales figures, but there's no hurry.

Thanks,

James Simmons


On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Adam Hyde <adam at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 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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