Re: Plea to sell Dan's book widely

[Dan Shafer]

On Aug 6, 2004, at 7:19 AM, Dave LeYanna wrote:
Is his book "self-published"?,
Nope. RunREv set up a publishing group to handle it. In a sense, RunRev 
has self-published it. I own the rights to the eBook version and Kevin 
and I have discussed doing a POD deal but such a relationship can 
confuse the issue when you're trying to line up a "real publisher."

if so I can help save some costs because I am
a partner in a Printing On Demand publisher. We do ISBN and everything
including a listing in "Books in Print". I'm sure that I'm cheaper than
anyone else. PLUS we are on demand meaning that he doesn't have to buy 
any
up front inventory.

I publish another self-published book with CafePress and although I'm 
delighted with their service, promotion and marketing remains my 
problem, of course.

BTW how far has he progresses on the three vol. set? I purchased the
"Pre-pub" deal (option C) and haven't heard a thing since the pre-pub 
of
vol. one.

There have been a few posts on the list about this. Kevin Miller and I 
decided some time ago to turn our efforts to finding a "real publisher" 
to handle Vol. 1 and to put together a publishing plan for Vols. 2 and 
3. Meanwhile, I release occasional individual chapters (only two so far 
with a third in draft mode now) free to those who joined my RevPros 
community at the Leader level and $5 each to everyone else who is in a 
hurry for a particular chapter and doesn't want to wait for the other 
volumes to be finished en masse.

I will communicate with you offlist about your membership.

Dave
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Brownell
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 10:11 AM
To: How to use Revolution
Subject: Re: Plea to sell Dan's book widely

On Thursday, August 5, 2004, at 09:33 PM, Troy Rollins wrote:
Convincing a book distributor that Revolution has as much appeal to
the unwashed masses as iTunes?
Good luck with that one.
--
Troy
Amazon.com has a small publisher section that would allow Dan / 
Revolution
to sell his book from the Amazon website. His book would pop up for any
requests for books on Runtime Revolution. Of course Dan would need to 
take a
50% reduction in earnings to ask for that level of exposure and the
percentage of loss to him might even be greater.  It might be better to
advertise the existence of his book and keep selling it direct. What 
you are
really saying is that more Revolution exposure would be nice. 
Advertising
could handle both issues and earn enough from it to pay for the print 
runs.

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