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Wait, you have two readers? -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com mcgra...@mac.com On Mar 4, 2013, at 12:27 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > Yes, my expectation was that hopefully both readers would like the book. I > think it helps when you're the only book in the field. > > > On Mar 4,

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Yes, my expectation was that hopefully both readers would like the book. I think it helps when you're the only book in the field. On Mar 4, 2013, at 12:02 PM, Rod McCall wrote: > >Well done Colin, we will probably buy another copy for our lab. Actually > your sales are pretty good given the ov

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Well done Colin, we will probably buy another copy for our lab. Actually your sales are pretty good given the overall size of the LiveCode community. Cheers, rod On 4 March 2013 17:28, Colin Holgate wrote: > I received the royalty statement for October, November, and December. The > book still

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I received the royalty statement for October, November, and December. The book still did well, and now I think there are nearly 200 print copies and over 400 ebook copies out there. The income is still low for the amount of time it took to write the book, but it's a lot more than I thought it wo

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Congrats, Colin. I continue to find your book very helpful. I recommend it to the LiveCode community. -- Tom Bodine -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/how-my-book-is-doing-tp4657757p4657815.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive

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On Sunday, December 2, 2012, Bill Vlahos wrote: > Keep the Mac. > http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac > I've had it for years :). In fact, it's on most of not all of my macs. but these days, it's mostly legal writing, much of which has to be shared with other lawyers. And no equations. LyX really can

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On Sunday, December 2, 2012, Peter Alcibiades wrote: > > -- Lyx - a real writing tool, generates proper professionally typeset > LaTex > and Postscript. It also will generate RTF. > > If you haven't used Lyx, its not at all like any other writing tool, in > particular its not WYSIWYG, but peopl

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I am doing the last two chapters, should not take long (famous last words)... On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > Packt have a very precise structure to their books, and they get authors > to follow that by using a set of Word templates. Even with those templates > it's possi

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Packt have a very precise structure to their books, and they get authors to follow that by using a set of Word templates. Even with those templates it's possible to go wrong, but I just feel sure that they wouldn't be able to cope with a document from any other tool, unless they had someone on s

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and delight. > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/how-my-book-is-doing-tp4657757p4657786.html > Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >

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ement and delight. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/how-my-book-is-doing-tp4657757p4657786.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-liv

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Before writing the book for Packt I had been a reviewer on two previous books for them, both about SketchUp. For those I did use Pages, and managed to get away with it, as I was only adding comments. I did at the time get the latest upgrade for Pages, which was able to export Word documents, but

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iPages works great for publishing and will export in most of the populat eBook formats. Pete lcSQL Software On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote: > I used to fully publish books in Word. Works better than desktop > publishing, if you are happy with their

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I used to fully publish books in Word. Works better than desktop publishing, if you are happy with their footnote options and a few other restrictions, but their footnoting is as good or better than any other desktop publishing app I have worked with. It gets dicey with images though. You can ru

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Packt authors work in Word, and submit that. There's another team that takes the Word document and formats it for print and ebooks. On Dec 1, 2012, at 2:51 PM, stephen barncard wrote: > > In Colin's case, I'm sure he did most, if not all of the production as well > as writing. _

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not sure that's a good comparison considering the production expenses in the creation of the product. In movies, the script is a small portion of the budget. In Colin's case, I'm sure he did most, if not all of the production as well as writing. On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Jim Lambert wrot

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Colin has done well with 14%. That's better than your working screenwriter here in Hollywood, who may get 5% of net, which is sometimes 5% of nothing! Jim Lambert ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to sub

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I know from working with Packt that they do active marketing for the first few months, after which it's a stock item I guess. That seems to make sense to me. On Dec 1, 2012, at 1:01 PM, "Marian Petrides, M.D." wrote: > Good point. Tell that to the scumbag publishers… > > On Dec 1, 2012, at 11

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Good point. Tell that to the scumbag publishers… On Dec 1, 2012, at 11:37 AM, "Lynn Fredricks" wrote: > A venue that does no marketing for you, no real support, and basically > "shelves" your product for access is a retailer. If you look a the old > model, retailers could expect anywhere from 2

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> Unfortunately, Colin is right. The going royalty rate tends > to be around 10% On all the medical books I have published, > the royalty was 10% divided among all authors. One extremely > big project got 12% divided among 6 editors, each of us getting 2%. > > I think Amazon's Kindle bookstore

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Unfortunately, Colin is right. The going royalty rate tends to be around 10% On all the medical books I have published, the royalty was 10% divided among all authors. One extremely big project got 12% divided among 6 editors, each of us getting 2%. I think Amazon's Kindle bookstore gives autho

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When I signed up with them they had said that the 14% (or thereabouts) that they give is a favorable rate. I checked into it, and certainly a lot of places are more like 10%, so I'm willing to believe that their rate is decent. As for self publishing, there are a handful of things that I'm not f

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On 11/30/12 5:41 PM, Terence Blyth wrote: Its great to see that people are getting results from livecode. Apple just approved my first app first time. Yah. Congrats! It's so satisfying when that happens. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive S

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On 11/30/12 3:05 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: I received my first royalty statement. Good on you! You deserve it. Seems like the ratios are off though, you should have got more. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyper

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Colin, Why would you not publish it again as a credential peer user protected web application with dedicated css to target desktops, tablets and mobiles ? Best, Pierre Le 1 déc. 2012 à 03:42, Pierre Sahores a écrit : > Hi Colin, > > Good to know... and the same tough as Keith. I don't like

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Hi Colin, Good to know... and the same tough as Keith. I don't like the idea that because PackIt (witch spams my mailbox since i purchased your useful reference book), you gives the most of your work to this "officine" in the mean time their did so sadly their publisher's work in making nothing

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Its great to see that people are getting results from livecode. Apple just approved my first app first time. Yah. Cheers Terence On 1/12/2012, at 12:15 PM, "Keith (Gulf Breeze Ortho Lab)" wrote: > Hi Colin, > > Great to hear! For future works, you might want to consider self-publ

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Hi Colin, Great to hear! For future works, you might want to consider self-publishing (perhaps print-on-demand) and make even more from your hard work... (And sorry if this topic has already been discussed on here before.) FYI: I bought the paper version of your wonderful book... Cheers! Keit

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Colin. Good for you! Really, really. Craig -Original Message- From: Colin Holgate To: How to use LiveCode Sent: Fri, Nov 30, 2012 4:06 pm Subject: how my book is doing... I received my first royalty statement. It just covers July, August, and September, and as the book came out

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I received my first royalty statement. It just covers July, August, and September, and as the book came out at the end of July it really means that it's two months worth of sales. The numbers were higher than I was expecting! In that amount of time there were 160 ebook purchases, 87 paper books