http://www.LeanPub.com would be a great avenue for a Pharo book in terms of exposure.
The format to use is Markdown I guess. And then it delivers the book in a ton of formats. You can even print them with one of their partners. Pretty good revenue. A friend of mine wrote this one: https://leanpub.com/entarch and is very happy w/ the results. --- Philippe Back Dramatic Performance Improvements Mob: +32(0) 478 650 140 | Fax: +32 (0) 70 408 027 Mail:[email protected] | Web: http://philippeback.eu Blog: http://philippeback.be | Twitter: @philippeback Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/philippeback/videos High Octane SPRL rue cour Boisacq 101 | 1301 Bierges | Belgium Pharo Consortium Member - http://consortium.pharo.org/ Featured on the Software Process and Measurement Cast - http://spamcast.libsyn.com Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and Ability Engineering EADocX Value Added Reseller On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Paul DeBruicker <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Stef, > > On 09/16/2013 10:47 AM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > > > > On Sep 16, 2013, at 6:55 PM, Paul DeBruicker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> I don't have time to make an ebook ecommerce site for free for you guys > >> right now. > > > > this is not a ecommerce > > This is a web page with a secure ecard + a following page with a pdf to > download. > > > > > > What you've described sounds like eCommerce to me. Collect money for a > product via the web. Deliver the product via the web or post. > > > For your page & download links you need an account at a payment > processor. If you set it up with stripe.com (they have a beta program > for France) you could use the Stripe-Seaside example form in the repo on > smalltalkhub. The charge something like 3% + $0.30 per transaction to > process a credit card. It all works in Pharo2. > > > >> How about using gumroad.com where its just a 5% cut for now until you > >> can find a student and some budget to implement something? > > > > We do not have students for such kind of task. > > > > Oh OK. I was just guessing that there would be at least one person who > would like to earn some small amount of euro to spend a part of a > saturday making a simple form + download page (ebook platform) that runs > on your infrastructure for your ebook sales to maybe go take someone > special to them on dates or a concert or something fun. > > > >> Seems like you'd need to commit to raising your prices beyond 6 euro to > >> justify any development time on your own custom ebook platform. > > > > Why would we do so? our goal is not to develop ebook platform. > > > > Stef > > > > I agree that with your current pricing structure anything custom > developed is nonsensical as you'd only be saving 2% on the sales price > over just switching to gumroad.com. My original argument was A) raise > your prices and then B) stop using lulu for ebooks. Unless you raise > prices, use gumroad.com. Or don't. At 6 euro you only earn 0.67 euro > more per sale if you switch to Gumroad (5% + $0.30) vs staying with lulu. > > I think you misinterpret me saying "platform". I do not mean something > with tons of inventory management capabilities or other features. I > mean custom software that integrates with the current consortium site > that allows you to sell eBooks through that site. E.g. the order form > page you mention above + credit card processing back end and download > link generator (if you want a different one for each person to track how > often it gets downloaded by each customer), and then download link page > plus an email sent to the customer so they can get another copy (e.g. > after their hard drive dies). > > > Thanks > > Paul > > > > > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On 09/16/2013 09:22 AM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > >>> > >>> On Sep 16, 2013, at 6:04 PM, Damien Cassou <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> > >>>> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Paul DeBruicker <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>>>> 2. Why give lulu 20% to control access to a zero marginal cost > download > >>>>> that you have to do all the promotion for? At this point are you > >>>>> contractually obligated or is there some flexibility? Can that be > >>>>> switched over right now to just email you when someone orders the PDF > >>>>> and you manually email them the PDF until you get a system in place > to > >>>>> automatically respond to their orders? > >>>> > >>>> I don't think we are obligated to do anything. So, if you want to > >>>> build a little app that would do that, we would really like it. > >>> > >>> Oh YES!!! > >>> We would love to have that. > >>> > >>> Stef > >>> > >>> > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> Damien Cassou > >>>> http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st > >>>> > >>>> "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without > >>>> losing enthusiasm." > >>>> Winston Churchill > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > > > > > > > >
