On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 03:55:17PM -0600, Ian Weller wrote: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 09:29:18PM -0800, Doug Berry wrote: > > When I mentioned using Wal-mart or Amazon as vendors, that > > is of course one way we could go. We will have that > > automatically when we register with LSI. But the most profitable > > way to go would be to sell any books ourselves. If a vendor > > sells the book, they are going to add 15%, that is deducted > > out of our profit, not from LSI. > > > > Setting up a web page and taking orders ourselves would mean > > we would make the most profit from our book. > The only real reason I would want to do this is if we decreased the > purchase price accordingly. I think the less hassle we put on us (have > distributors do the work for us), the better, and the extra bit in the > price pays for itself. From what I understand, we're setting the > wholesale price, not the retail price though. > > That's not to say I'm completely against doing the shipping ourselves. Agreed about letting the distributors take up some of the work if it's possible and not too cost prohibitive. > > I am not sure what you mean with the four different books. > > Is that four books at once, or one at a time? Book sales > > are almost impossible to predict. But I think that the first > > book will sell. It may well pay for the other four. > > > The first set would be four books at once, aligning with the four > foundations. We need a *lot* more marketing collateral on these and this > is just another way to push that during this release cycle. Agreed again. It would be great to integrate Mo's graphics with the cover design, the endpapers, and/or some part of the interior page design: http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/collateral/fourfs/ > > One way to gage this: at this upcoming FUDCON, if we are going > > to be passing out release forms, maybe we could take a legal > > pad or pledge cards and ask people "would you like to pre-order > > the book your picture will be in?" If the people whose pictures > > and names are going to be in the book, won't commit to buying > > it, we might as well quit right now. > > > Great idea! I'll put those on the release forms we make up. > > > Then again, we are not even bound, no pun intended, to producing > > a bound book. We could go magazine style: folded pages, stapled > > in the middle, the cheapest type of book. We could do any amount > > of pages, 20, 40, 80, 160. > > > I was thinking that the idea would be that we have a nice, high-quality > physical book. Quite frankly, paperback would be the least I would go in > quality. I *really* would prefer hardbacks. That's a much more lasting item, whether we give as gifts or buy for ourselves. But again, if the cost makes them so expensive no one will buy them, that would be a silly requirement. I just hope they're not *that* costly. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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