+1 to raise the price/add distribution channels. Mario Burgos IT Consultant - PetrieLabs *Cell*: 408.859.9355 *Email*: ma...@petrielabs.com <http://blog.petrielabs.com>
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Kevin Godby <god...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, everyone. > > We publish our manual through CreateSpace.com. In addition to making > the manual available for purchase through CreateSpace.com, they also > offer additional distribution channels including Amazon.com. > > Recently, CreateSpace has offered three new distribution channels: > > 1. Bookstores and Online Retailers. Make your book available to online > and offline retailers such as Barnes & Noble and to distributors such > as Ingram and NACSCORP. > > 2. Libraries and Academic Institutions. Make your book available > through Baker & Taylor to libraries and academic institutions. > > 3. CreateSpace Direct. Make your book available to certified resellers > through our wholesale website. > > However, if I opt to have our manuals made available through these new > channels, it raises the minimum price of the manual. > > For example, Getting Started with Ubuntu 13.10 (English edition) > currently has a minimum price of $4.49. If I enable the new channels, > the manual may be available to more people (if bookstores and > libraries buy it), but the minimum price would become $6.73. > > I wanted to get everyone's opinion on what we should do here. Should > we make our manual available through more channels but at a higher > cost or should we try to keep costs as low as possible and provide the > manual only through CreateSpace and Amazon? > > (Note that this doesn't have any impact on the free PDF downloads that > we provide. They will always remain free.) > > Thanks for your thoughts! > > —Kevin Godby > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual > Post to : ubuntu-manual@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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