Posted: December 1st, 2006, 6:27 pm
Thanks for your input, panta!
I agree with what you're saying. For now, I'm sorta strapped so if you agree that this seems legit (Clay looked at it and thought so also), then we'll probably go this route this time.
Yes, I am hoping to publish more books and years ago over at Litkicks I used to talk about this so it's been a dream of mine for a long time. Plus, I've been calling this "our first book" so yeah, that's the idea to do more of these later.
I certainly don't think it will ever be a profitable endeavor. I am thinking of the documents as the purpose. If we stay with the Cafe Press as a POD service, their prices are such that you really can't charge much more than their production cost to sell a book. So, I'm guessing we'll make maybe $2 per book and that's definitely not going to pay the bills. (BTW, we are almost to capacity of our 2gig allowance for storage space with our host so I'm going to have to buy studioeight.net if that's available or studioeightmusic.com or some other name so that we can store some of our larger files elsewhere... or something... need to think of a solution fast before we run out of space. So this will be an additional expense to have an additional URL hosted in order to keep running. Maybe I should put a donation link up or something. I hate to ask for contributions tho... but your idea of selling the barcodes to the individual writers or artists we may publish in the future is certainly a good one to help recoup some costs)
Let's see how this book goes... whether people like the way it looks, enjoy the content, etc. Then if it's something we consider a success, we'll talk about a way to purchase a 10-pack of ISBN #s.
I HAVE to work on compiling the submissions this weekend. I keep starting then something else comes up... like work deadlines.. lol... but I'm going to dedicate my weekend to it. Moving forward.... approaching high tide.
I agree with what you're saying. For now, I'm sorta strapped so if you agree that this seems legit (Clay looked at it and thought so also), then we'll probably go this route this time.
Yes, I am hoping to publish more books and years ago over at Litkicks I used to talk about this so it's been a dream of mine for a long time. Plus, I've been calling this "our first book" so yeah, that's the idea to do more of these later.
I certainly don't think it will ever be a profitable endeavor. I am thinking of the documents as the purpose. If we stay with the Cafe Press as a POD service, their prices are such that you really can't charge much more than their production cost to sell a book. So, I'm guessing we'll make maybe $2 per book and that's definitely not going to pay the bills. (BTW, we are almost to capacity of our 2gig allowance for storage space with our host so I'm going to have to buy studioeight.net if that's available or studioeightmusic.com or some other name so that we can store some of our larger files elsewhere... or something... need to think of a solution fast before we run out of space. So this will be an additional expense to have an additional URL hosted in order to keep running. Maybe I should put a donation link up or something. I hate to ask for contributions tho... but your idea of selling the barcodes to the individual writers or artists we may publish in the future is certainly a good one to help recoup some costs)
Let's see how this book goes... whether people like the way it looks, enjoy the content, etc. Then if it's something we consider a success, we'll talk about a way to purchase a 10-pack of ISBN #s.
I HAVE to work on compiling the submissions this weekend. I keep starting then something else comes up... like work deadlines.. lol... but I'm going to dedicate my weekend to it. Moving forward.... approaching high tide.