Doesn't Malcolm Bull still publish books? -----Original Message----- From: Tony Gravagno [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 11:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [U2] RE: books
Charles Barouch wrote: > If you want books, we need to commit to publishers. I'm about to self-publish a book called Using DesignBais. Printing the 300 page book with good quality paper, images, nice binding, etc, costs about $50 per copy. I have to pay for many books to be shipped to me, and I will ship to anyone who orders so my cost of business goes up a little there. The end-user cost of the book will be $200 per copy, which is further weighted to account for the lack of volume in our community. I originally apologized for the price but given the specialized content I've not heard a single complaint about the price. In fact I'm pleasantly overwhelmed at the excitement this offering has generated and I'm encouraged to do more. So, we don't really need publishers who need guarantees of much larger volumes. I share this experience in the hope that some other author might be interested in following the same path to write and self-publish user-friendly books or booklets on U2-related topics. This is specialized info we're after and I don't think there are many people here who would see this as anything other than a normal and necessary business expense, so from my recent experience I think such an effort would be rewarded. Getting advance orders should (arguably) be a standard operating procedure for some, maybe with some third-party taking orders/cash "in escrow" so to speak. With so many people saying they want something and then not ordering after extended development (been there, done that), the "trust but verify" strategy is hardly unjustified. Writing material like this takes months out of someone's life, and if material doesn't sell after that much effort, it's doubtful that this community will get many more chances to dangle the same carrot. HTH TG@ scribblescribblescribbleNebula-RnD.com ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
