Comments on: 45 copies of the Indo-European Grammar sold in the first 30 days, copies sent to members and Dnghu’s new bank account http://dnghu.org/Indo-European/2009/11/45-copies-of-the-indo-european-grammar-sold-in-the-first-30-days-copies-sent-to-members-and-dnghus-new-bank-account/ Proto-Indo-European Language and Europe's Modern Indo-European Language Wed, 05 May 2010 20:55:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: carlos http://dnghu.org/Indo-European/2009/11/45-copies-of-the-indo-european-grammar-sold-in-the-first-30-days-copies-sent-to-members-and-dnghus-new-bank-account/comment-page-1/#comment-1808 carlos Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:37:18 +0000 http://dnghu.org/Indo-European/?p=403#comment-1808 @Olivier: Thank you again. @Kam: Thank you for your comment. I think it's more interesting to have direct (immediate) access to Amazon through CreateSpace, than to earn more royalties with a third party. We would like the book to reach everyone, that's why it is licensed CC-by-sa and GFDL, so that everybody can make their own copies, every publisher or editor can work on their own editions, and so on. Anyway, we still consider Lulu an option for an alternative printed edition, just like we did with the First Edition; and if the cost is in fact lower (with the First Edition it wasn't) then the book sold in Lulu would be cheaper, and we would promote it over CreateSpace's edition, instead of earning more royalties. @Olivier:

Thank you again.

@Kam:

Thank you for your comment. I think it’s more interesting to have direct (immediate) access to Amazon through CreateSpace, than to earn more royalties with a third party. We would like the book to reach everyone, that’s why it is licensed CC-by-sa and GFDL, so that everybody can make their own copies, every publisher or editor can work on their own editions, and so on.

Anyway, we still consider Lulu an option for an alternative printed edition, just like we did with the First Edition; and if the cost is in fact lower (with the First Edition it wasn’t) then the book sold in Lulu would be cheaper, and we would promote it over CreateSpace’s edition, instead of earning more royalties.

]]> By: Kam http://dnghu.org/Indo-European/2009/11/45-copies-of-the-indo-european-grammar-sold-in-the-first-30-days-copies-sent-to-members-and-dnghus-new-bank-account/comment-page-1/#comment-1807 Kam Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:47:11 +0000 http://dnghu.org/Indo-European/?p=403#comment-1807 It is probably due to the fact that such an important work is made available at a reasonable price, unlike many other linguistic works making them financially out of reach for users such as college students. Have you tried distributing the book through Lulu.com, you get to set more of y our royalties than CreateSpace. It is probably due to the fact that such an important work is made available at a reasonable price, unlike many other linguistic works making them financially out of reach for users such as college students.

Have you tried distributing the book through Lulu.com, you get to set more of y our royalties than CreateSpace.

]]> By: Olivier Simon http://dnghu.org/Indo-European/2009/11/45-copies-of-the-indo-european-grammar-sold-in-the-first-30-days-copies-sent-to-members-and-dnghus-new-bank-account/comment-page-1/#comment-1806 Olivier Simon Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:29:52 +0000 http://dnghu.org/Indo-European/?p=403#comment-1806 Congratulations to Carlos and his team ! That's great, considering the facts that the grammar is downloadable at no cost ! Olivier Congratulations to Carlos and his team ! That’s great, considering the facts that the grammar is downloadable at no cost !

Olivier

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