From: Keith Nash <kjn9@citizenearth.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Hi together | a few newbie questions
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 20:53:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021212205339.27924.qmail@mail.dirac.net> (raw)
> and there's always nemo's commentary... that probably should
> become a book :)
> If any of you have a suggestion for a different publisher,
> just let me know.
I have friends who were in small-time publishing about 7 years ago. In those days, a paperback print run was 1000 minimum, with larger runs at low incremental cost. It will be a problem to sell this number of books, or anything like it, whether through mail order or via booksellers. Advertising would be futile.
A different option is for contributed material to be included in the official manuals.
There could be a 3rd volume of "Contributed" material, or the new stuff could be added to the "Documents" volume (which I expect would be the cheaper route).
Alternatively, since the only likely purchasers are subscribers to this list, we could collect pre-orders (e.g. through Vita Nuova, or Scusi's dad's company), and only print the book if there is sufficient interest.
next reply other threads:[~2002-12-12 20:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-12 20:53 Keith Nash [this message]
2002-12-14 13:35 ` Jim Choate
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-12-13 8:54 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-12-12 8:34 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-12-12 17:34 ` Scusi
2002-12-16 9:49 ` Clemens Fischer
2003-01-07 17:58 ` Ralph Corderoy
2002-12-12 7:20 Andrew Simmons
2002-12-12 2:35 Andrew Simmons
2002-12-12 2:46 ` andrey mirtchovski
2002-12-12 17:24 ` Scusi
2002-12-13 2:37 ` Dean Prichard
2002-12-12 17:20 ` Scusi
2002-12-11 19:24 Russ Cox
2002-12-11 19:12 Scusi
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