Good morning all First of all let me thank all of you for your advice and the encouraging feedback on my book. Given that many of you tried to assist I think it is only fair that I provide some feedback.
About 90% of all respondents chose to reply off line and I must say that their input turned out especially valuable and highly enlightening indeed. The overwhelming majority has encouraged me to embark on another print run and several glider pilots have recommended to stay well clear of e-book publishing. Multiple warnings about cyber piracy were received with one fellow author advising that - for exactly this reason - he will never publish an e-book again. Obviously it is all too easy to copy an e-book illegally and make it available on line. One well meaning fellow pilot wrote: I am yet to find a safe eBook version, in fact I have friends who pride themselves on having hundreds of eBooks, having never paid for one. Although the prime motivation for writing this book was to combat the high drop out rate in our sport I’m very reluctant to open the door for unscrupulous cyber thieves. The other side of the coin is the need to finance the high cost of printing. The most recent print run returned almost six tons of books and given that we seem to get close to market saturation it might take quite a few years to offload such quantities again. Unfortunately significantly smaller print runs result in a much higher cost per book but then again, self publishing was never meant to be easy! Once again, many thanks to all respondents. I really appreciate your input and your attempt to help me make the right decision. Bernard > On 13 Mar 2015, at 7:49 am, Future Aviation Pty. Ltd. > <ec...@internode.on.net> wrote: > > Good morning all > > Our overseas distribution centre has just advised that they will soon run out > of stock on my book: “Advanced > Soaring Made Easy”. > > This raises the question whether we should commit to another print run or > revert to e-book publishing in future. > To make the right decision I need all the assistance I can get and it would > help greatly if members of this forum > could provide advice on e-book publishing preferably based on first hand > experience. > > I would also appreciate a bit of general feedback on whether my fellow > aviators would prefer traditional printed > literature or whether they would rather read an e-book. > > Many thanks for your trouble and kind regards to all of you. > > Bernard > > PS: Off line replies are also most welcome! (ec...@internode.on.net > <mailto:ec...@internode.on.net>) > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
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