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Of Russell Standish
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I self-published Theory of Nothing after the first 10 publishers turned it
down for economic reasons
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Gary Schiltz g...@naturesvisualarts.comwrote:
Here is the core dump of the recently defunct Code Quarterly magazine
(FRIAM connection: this was started by Peter Seibel, who is Fred Seibel's
son). Of course, the target audience and contributers are geeks rather
Dear Russel
This may be somewhat Odd-Topic for this list. (apologies)
Thanks for mentioning your book, I've located the PDF.
Chapter 2 starts with Gospel John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the
Word was God.
I wonder if this would compare with a verse from
[mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On
Behalf Of Russell Standish
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 3:14 PM
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Self publishing
I self-published Theory of Nothing after the first 10 publishers
turned it down for economic reasons
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:22:02PM +0530, Sarbajit Roy wrote:
Dear Russel
This may be somewhat Odd-Topic for this list. (apologies)
Thanks for mentioning your book, I've located the PDF.
Chapter 2 starts with Gospel John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
into the weeds about.
Nick
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: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 10:14 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
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See this NYT article and sign up here.
-- Russ Abbott
_
Professor, Computer Science
California State University
We've just finished a website to sell an eBook (Kindle or EPUB) for an
author in town, Josh Gonze, see the streetsofsantafe.com
http://streetsofsantafe.com. Visitors buy the ebook ($11.95) via
PayPal and automatically receive an email with a digital download link
that's good for 2 days. This
Any watermark or copy protection on this format?
Thanks,
Tory
On Feb 15, 2012, at 8:16 AM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote:
We've just finished a website to sell an eBook (Kindle or EPUB) for
an author in town, Josh Gonze, see the streetsofsantafe.com.
Visitors buy the ebook ($11.95) via
Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Self publishing
See this NYT article
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/science/researchers-boycott-elsevier-jour
nal-publisher.html and sign up here http://thecostofknowledge.com/ .
-- Russ Abbott
+1!
While in Silicon Valley, I asked about a Union for tech folks because we
have a high turnover rate .. we find interesting jobs or start startups. My
argument wasn't pay scale, striking, or that sort of thing .. but just a
professional organization that would help centralize benefits and so
Interesting, Sarbajit. Thanks. N
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Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 9:20 AM
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I have
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Victoria Hughes
victo...@toryhughes.com wrote:
Any watermark or copy protection on this format?
Tory,
Don't sweat it. DRM never works anyway.
If anyone has (legal) access to the content, and there is a demand for
it, it will end up stripped of whatever DRM or
Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Self publishing
I have interests in a niche family publishing business in history / social
sciences in India..
But we mainly publish European authors (the Romance langages) in excellent
quality in small runs (ie. low thousands) which nobody
Thanks all, this is quite helpful. I particularly like envisaging my
readers secretly copying my book so others can read it and ultimately
generate financial success à la Rowling. Nice visuals. I'll share,
when it happens.
Tory
On Feb 15, 2012, at 12:17 PM, James Steiner wrote:
On Wed,
re my last note-
Financial success for me.
Success for my readers in whatever category they choose.
( For those of you who want to query my vague pronoun references...)
On Feb 15, 2012, at 1:04 PM, Victoria Hughes wrote:
Thanks all, this is quite helpful. I particularly like envisaging my
I self-published Theory of Nothing after the first 10 publishers
turned it down for economic reasons through BookSurge, which was
later bought by Amazon.
It has sold somewhere in the region 550 copies to date.
I made my costs back within a year - but the ebook version hardly sold
at all, even
Here is the core dump of the recently defunct Code Quarterly magazine (FRIAM
connection: this was started by Peter Seibel, who is Fred Seibel's son). Of
course, the target audience and contributers are geeks rather than scientists,
so I'm not sure if there is much to learn for science
: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 3:14 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Self publishing
I self-published Theory of Nothing after the first 10 publishers turned it
down for economic reasons through BookSurge, which was later bought by
Amazon.
It has sold
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From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
Of Greg Sonnenfeld
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 11:37 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
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I had also surveyed about organizing when I
Hi, everybody,
I have signed perhaps a dozen Publishers Agreements over my life time and
each one was more onerous, self-serving, and stupid than the one before. My
favorite was the publisher who asked me to hold the Publisher harmless for
anything that might occur as a consequence of the
See this NYT
articlehttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/science/researchers-boycott-elsevier-journal-publisher.htmland
sign up
here http://thecostofknowledge.com/.
*-- Russ Abbott*
*_*
*** Professor, Computer Science*
* California State University, Los
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Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 10:14 PM
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See this NYT article
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