Re: [Repoze-dev] BFG book available from Amazon.com (better shipping rates?)
Speaking for United States customers, the FREE with Super Saver Shipping, which your book qualifies for, is better than anything offered on CreateSpace (even though they they are owned by Amazon). I wish I would have known Amazon was going to be an option, so I wouldn't have had to set up a new account at CreateSpace and give out credit card info again. On the other hand, maybe I am now one step closer to writing my own book one day :-) I'm not sure what you had to do to get the book on Amazon, but it was probably time well spent. Recommending a book to someone by emailing a link to it's listing at Amazon, is fairly standard. If customer reviews are going to be found somewhere, most of them will be at Amazon.com due to the size of their customer base. Plus, they have the whole wish-list system which works out nice if you have a birthday approaching and are hoping to convince someone else to buy the book for you. ;-) Steve --- On Sat, 2/6/10, Chris McDonough chr...@plope.com wrote: From: Chris McDonough chr...@plope.com Subject: [Repoze-dev] BFG book available from Amazon.com (better shipping rates?) To: repoze-dev repoze-dev@lists.repoze.org Date: Saturday, February 6, 2010, 9:27 PM A number of folks in Europe indicated that the shipping rates for the repoze.bfg Web Application Framework book from Createspace to Europe were prohibitive. The book is now available from Amazon.com. I don't really know what the Amazon shipping rates to Europe *are*, but hopefully they're better: http://www.amazon.com/repoze-bfg-Web-Application-Framework-Version/dp/0615345379/ref=sr_1_5 - C ___ Repoze-dev mailing list Repoze-dev@lists.repoze.org http://lists.repoze.org/listinfo/repoze-dev ___ Repoze-dev mailing list Repoze-dev@lists.repoze.org http://lists.repoze.org/listinfo/repoze-dev
Re: [Repoze-dev] BFG book available from Amazon.com (better shipping rates?)
On 2010-2-7 04:27, Chris McDonough wrote: A number of folks in Europe indicated that the shipping rates for the repoze.bfg Web Application Framework book from Createspace to Europe were prohibitive. The book is now available from Amazon.com. I don't really know what the Amazon shipping rates to Europe *are*, but hopefully they're better: From memory Amazon.com is still expensive with shipping. If the book lands on something like amazon.co.uk or amazon.de things should improve. Of course people could also just order it at their local bookstore :) Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman wich...@wiggy.net It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple. ___ Repoze-dev mailing list Repoze-dev@lists.repoze.org http://lists.repoze.org/listinfo/repoze-dev
Re: [Repoze-dev] BFG book available from Amazon.com (better shipping rates?)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wichert Akkerman wrote: On 2010-2-7 04:27, Chris McDonough wrote: A number of folks in Europe indicated that the shipping rates for the repoze.bfg Web Application Framework book from Createspace to Europe were prohibitive. The book is now available from Amazon.com. I don't really know what the Amazon shipping rates to Europe *are*, but hopefully they're better: From memory Amazon.com is still expensive with shipping. If the book lands on something like amazon.co.uk or amazon.de things should improve. Of course people could also just order it at their local bookstore :) - From memory, asking for the book at your local store is actually one of the best things you can do to promote a book: the distributors notice / aggregate those events all out of proportion to pure website sales. Last time I knew that to be true was a while back, though. Tres. - -- === Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software Excellence by Designhttp://palladion.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAktu5gsACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ4dyACg1Zv4L1c7dGamGlxXXTGud2R1 4IMAniVdVSXYDR1vxu8tYE6KlMypPmba =Myma -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Repoze-dev mailing list Repoze-dev@lists.repoze.org http://lists.repoze.org/listinfo/repoze-dev
Re: [Repoze-dev] BFG book available from Amazon.com (better shipping rates?)
On 2/7/10 9:34 AM, Steve Schmechel wrote: Speaking for United States customers, the FREE with Super Saver Shipping, which your book qualifies for, is better than anything offered on CreateSpace (even though they they are owned by Amazon). Yes. Apparently that doesn't help European folks though. :-( I wish I would have known Amazon was going to be an option, so I wouldn't have had to set up a new account at CreateSpace and give out credit card info again. On the other hand, maybe I am now one step closer to writing my own book one day :-) For the record, Agendaless makes about 30% more on every book purchased via Createspace.com than they do books purchased via Amazon.com. So apologies that you had to enter your credit card info into there, but if it makes you feel any better, you did help us 30% more. ;-) I'm not sure what you had to do to get the book on Amazon, but it was probably time well spent. Recommending a book to someone by emailing a link to it's listing at Amazon, is fairly standard. If customer reviews are going to be found somewhere, most of them will be at Amazon.com due to the size of their customer base. Plus, they have the whole wish-list system which works out nice if you have a birthday approaching and are hoping to convince someone else to buy the book for you. ;-) Having an easy Amazon.com listing was the main reason I chose Createspace over Lulu. Although it's pretty much a toss-up; I think Lulu also makes sure you get an Amazon listing, it just may take a bit longer to get listed. As it was, even with Createspace, it took 5 days or so for it to show up on Amazon after it was published. - C ___ Repoze-dev mailing list Repoze-dev@lists.repoze.org http://lists.repoze.org/listinfo/repoze-dev
