<div>Thanks SO much for doing this legwork David. Good stuff. </div>
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<div>One disconnect in the process still exists for me, and maybe someone can explain it to me. </div>
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<div>How does FM get a book get stocked and sold by Amazon? </div>
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<div>Even if FM is publisher, a publisher still needs printed copies and a method of sending those to people who order them. In other words, the work flow as I know it currently is:<br>1. FM/SL booksprint to create the content<br>
2. FM publishes the content to a PDF file. </div>
<div>3. FM uploads the PDF file to a place that prints books. Currently FM uses <a href="http://www.lulu.com/">http://www.lulu.com/</a> for this step.<br>4. Lulu (not FM) makes the content more widely available via resellers such as Amazon.<br>
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<div>Step 4 is the one that's black magic to me. :)</div>
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<div>Anne</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Andy Oram <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andyo@oreilly.com">andyo@oreilly.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">In commercial publishing, it's clear what a new edition is. We can go on for years fixing typos or slipping in minor updates without releasing a new edition, just new printings. But when we decide the volume of changes are enough for a new edition, we go through the long, heavy-weight process of making a book:<br>
<br>* A proposal to management<br><br>* A new contract (or an addendum)<br><br>* A new sales sheet and sales pitches by sales reps<br><br>None of this is relevant to FLOSS Manuals. So you're free to call something a new edition when, say, the software goes from version 1.0 to 2.0, but the decision is more arbitrary.<br>
<br>There are two other features of new editions that are irrelevant in a POD situation:<br><br>* Reprints change selected pages (as few as you can get away with) whereas a new edition sends a whole new file to the printer for an entire book.<br>
<br>* Bookstores send back the earlier edition when they stock the new one.<br><font color="#888888"><br>Andy<br></font>
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