I don't think we're going to see a surge of downloaders because we widened our distribution net and raised the price. Not saying it's a bad idea to broaden our exposure, but Ubuntu IS a free operating system and if I'm looking for a manual that's getting close to $10, then I'm hitting amazon.com and looking for professionally published material. That's just me.
Do we have any statistics showing how many buyers we currently have through our current distribution channels? --sent from my Samsung Galaxy S III phone On Nov 10, 2013 4:44 PM, "Mario H. Burgos" <ma...@petrielabs.com> wrote: > +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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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