[FM Discuss] How is the printed MYOSA selling?

[adam]

ok

i will do this today and send them. for everyones notice: I am not going
to send out any more statistics. it is not set up well for this and i
just dont have the time. there is plenty else to do! ;)

adam




On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 09:01 -0600, James Simmons wrote:
> 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
>         
>          
>         
>         Anne Gentle 
>         my blog | my book | LinkedIn | Delicious | Twitter
>         
>         
>         
>         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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