<div dir="ltr">This is a potentially very dangerous question. There is a history of issues being caused between profit-making and pure-volunteers in a massive volunteering project. I'm not saying that it's an insurmountable problem, but just potentially issue-causing.<br>
<br>My suggestion is to do #3, and ultimately to provide tools, widgets and other support for other retailers. And *ideally* we would work to find a single benevolent dictator of a retailer that would give money back on a case-to-case basis.<br>
<br>Another interesting consideration is that I'm getting paid (hypothetically) for organizing work on the OLPC manual, and I am technically the final responsibility on the project but Anne is very much the one who has the most edits so far.<br>
<br>It's a complicated question.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Joshua Facemyer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jfacemyer@gmail.com">jfacemyer@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">adam hyde wrote:<br>
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The second question I have is whether we couldn't do something of a combination, such as 1&3.<br>
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We can mix it up anyway we want. What do you like about those options?<br>
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Well, I think #3 is a given, seeing as it's GPL - unless of course you're referring to the ready-for-print data, in which case it might be a better idea to do something like sell larger quantities at wholesale prices, then they can be resold for profit.<br>
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However, I think that, no matter what, the bottom line is that FM makes a profit from every book sold for profit. Cuz Adam needs to feed himself too, otherwise we don't have FM.<br>
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So, I think the best idea is an FM book shop which offers book sales for a profit, profits are apportioned to both FM and the maintainers/their projects (however that will be decided), and wholesale book prices are offered in quantity which still allow for some profit for FM and the book teams. Seems fairly simple and easy enough to manage.<br>
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Also, as regards ISBNs, etc, I think you should just ignore them. It's really too much hassle. However, it might be a good idea to code books with an FM code to maintain order. This way, if a book shop wants to sell FM books, they can do so, but if they simply cannot live without an ISBN on each book they sell, oh well. (Besides, don't shops all offer other items apart from books, which also don't have ISBNs? They'll figure it out if they really want to. And if they really want to, then it's likely that they're a smaller book shop which can actually handle that sort of thing :)<br>
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