Andrew Davidhazy wrote:
Emily et al,
I was not really worried about recovering 30 dollars. No biggie. At
the beginning I failed to talk about "money". I am perfectly happy to
not assign any royalties. You are correct in assuming I can set the
price of the book at any level beyond the basic printing cost which is
about $18 as I mentioned.
If some kind of royaly would be included, even like 10 cents, Lulu
keeps track of that and sends the "author" a check every so often. If
these would have to be kept track of so as to redistribute to every
contributor that would obviously be too much of a hassle. My school
might benefit if they are directed its way but I think also that the
amounts would be very small and maybe not worth the hassle of the
paperwork associated with depositing a few dollars every 3 months.
So, I am am for no royalties and let the chips fall where they may.
This would ensure that the PDFs of the book are free and that nobody
has to deal with money.
cheerio,
andy
FWIW, I heartily concur. I never anticipated any monetary return and
assumed that was not the purpose of the book. But I am retired from
commercial photo ventures now and I am only speaking for myself. My
preference would be to keep it as simple as possible for you folks at
RIT who have made this possible. That means no royalty bookkeeping I
guess. Let's make this a pure fun project free of venal concerns.
Don
Emily L. Ferguson wrote:
Well, the ISBN # is about 85 cents each, are you figuring on getting
that back from royalties? If you do that the bookkeeping will be
simpler for a while.
Do they let you set the book price? If so, what do you think it will
be to cover the royalties, too.
I think the ISBN number is a good idea. Who knows about the fate of
books. They make it into the most amazing places because someome
tripped over one somewhere.
But I'm not so sure about managing the royalties. What were you
thinking of doing with the royalty money, and will RIT have some
interest in it, us having used their IT services and student gophers
for so long.
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