Carla Calvi wrote:
> Here's a slightly silly question. But it occurred to me that there > were quite a few authors amongst us (including our list mom), plus the > book in question is fiber related :-). Lets say I want to order a > book. I can order it from the author or from a distributor. Would the > author get more money for the book if I ordered directly from her/him, > or am I only giving them more work? I've published a couple books about dog training, not fibre interests, so my experience may not be relevant. I make more money if someone buys a book from me. If they buy it from the distributor, I get a small portion of that money which is figured into the wholesale cost of that book. If I sell the book myself, I pay the wholesale price (which also covers the cost of printing and all that stuff) and sell at the retail price, which is usually at least twice as much as the wholesale price. I am, however, extremely grateful whenever anyone buys one of my books no matter who they purchase it from. The advantage of having a distributor versus selling it myself is that the distributor reaches a much greater number of customers than I can myself. If 100 people who have never heard of my web site buy my book from the distributor I make more money because those people would never have bought the book from me. Additionally, the more copies of my books that are out there, the more well known I become, which leads to good things like more seminar invitations and more people coming to me for instruction. Plus the number of copies sold is a real ego boost, which I enjoy (I'm pathetic, I know it! <G>). Things may work differently in the fibre world. Shirley To stop mail temporarily mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: set nomail To restore send: set mail
