John Kane wrote:
OOoAuthors has a balance of AUD 1,276.49 (USD 956.50 or EUR 757
at today's exchange rate) from sales of our books through
Lulu.com. (Visit the store at http://www.lulu.com/opendocument )
We're rich!!!
Great work Jean.
Sales have been falling off. June sales were down from May, and
July so far is dismal. I hope that just means that people are
using the free PDFs, rather than not using our books at all.
Let's keep promoting the printed books as well as the PDFs. The
important thing is for people to get the info; selling books is
distinctly secondary.
I am still looking into getting the books on Amazon.com. I know
how, but there are some hassle factors. The biggest one is that
Lightning Source, the on-demand printer that produces the books
for Amazon.com, requires PDFs produced by Adobe Acrobat! They
won't accept PDFs produced by OOo or any other PDF-creation
program, like the printer Lulu uses for books sold through their
own website. I have not had time to work out the best (or least
awful) way to comply with this requirement. (I do have Adobe
Acrobat, but it can't handle .odt files, so there will have to be
an intermediate step. Print to PostScript from OOo, perhaps; then
use Acrobat to create the PDF... and hope Lightning Source
accepts the result.)
--Jean
