From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Choate To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Hi together | a few newbie questions In-Reply-To: <20021212205339.27924.qmail@mail.dirac.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 07:35:33 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 33885976-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On 12 Dec 2002, Keith Nash wrote: > > 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. > Project Gutenberg -- ____________________________________________________________________ We don't see things as they are, ravage@ssz.com we see them as we are. www.ssz.com jchoate@open-forge.org Anais Nin www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------