[OT] Re: Thoughs after discussions at OSCON
От | Tom Copeland |
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Тема | [OT] Re: Thoughs after discussions at OSCON |
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Msg-id | 1123583893.712.96.camel@hal обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Re: Thoughs after discussions at OSCON ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>) |
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Re: [OT] Re: Thoughs after discussions at OSCON
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On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 21:50 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Well don't let that fool you though. That could mean they bothered to > sell 5k+ books. Pratical > PostgreSQL's first run was only 5k we had to go to second printing the > first month it was out. > > 5k copies sold will NOT make up the money lost in the development of the > book. You need > at least 10-15k copies sold for that. Just a thought on this. Self-publishing is another route to take; if you print 5000 softcover books for about $10K and then sell them for $29.99 each, well, do the math :-) Of course, there's a huge downside - you have to do a ton of work. You have to provide a camera-ready PDF file, set up a web site to take orders, do all the marketing and promo, have a place to keep 10 cubic feet of books, handle order fulfillment (i.e., lugging 10-20 copies a day down to the post office), and so on. But it's a thought... Yours, Tom
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