On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 00:13 +0000, toki wrote: > On 28/06/2011 21:47, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > > > T It's what Lulu passes on to us. > > Why are you using Lulu? > > It doesn't cost that much more to setup an account with LSI, which will > give the material far more credibility.
There is no cost involved in publishing books through Lulu. There is a per-page setup cost for LSI (Lightning Soucre) for each book and for each update to a book. Considering how often the books need to be updated, this cost could be significant. Whether any increased sales would offset this extra cost, I don't know. I already have an account with LSI and have considered publishing OOo and LibO books using that account, but so far I have not thought the extra expense worth it. However, sales of the OOo books have now built up a large enough profit margin (around $8,000), I could use some of that for publishing through LSI. Of course, that's OOo, not LibO, unless the ODFAuthors group agrees to use the money for that purpose. > > >I suspect this number will increase as more people discover them. > > Not with Lulu as your publisher. The OOo books are now bringing in approx. $150 a month. I forget how many copies are being sold, but of course there are more OOo books at this point than there are LibO books. The numbers will increase. > Brick and mortar book stores will not stock books from Lulu. > > > It's a service for those who want printed copies. > > The only place they will find it, is on the Lulu website. > Amazon does not list it. They can find out through the LibO website, through mentions in blogs, mailing lists, the users forum, and other places, from which they can click through to Lulu. Being listed on Amazon etc would be even better, but is it worth the extra expense? I don't know. If someone else wants to do the printed-copy publishing, through LSI or anywhere else, they are welcome to do it. I have more than enough other things to do. --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
