Plea to sell Dan's book widely

[Dan Shafer]

On Aug 6, 2004, at 7:19 AM, Dave LeYanna wrote:

> Is his book "self-published"?,

Nope. RunREv set up a publishing group to handle it. In a sense, RunRev 
has self-published it. I own the rights to the eBook version and Kevin 
and I have discussed doing a POD deal but such a relationship can 
confuse the issue when you're trying to line up a "real publisher."

> if so I can help save some costs because I am
> a partner in a Printing On Demand publisher. We do ISBN and everything
> including a listing in "Books in Print". I'm sure that I'm cheaper than
> anyone else. PLUS we are on demand meaning that he doesn't have to buy 
> any
> up front inventory.
>
I publish another self-published book with CafePress and although I'm 
delighted with their service, promotion and marketing remains my 
problem, of course.

> BTW how far has he progresses on the three vol. set? I purchased the
> "Pre-pub" deal (option C) and haven't heard a thing since the pre-pub 
> of
> vol. one.
>
There have been a few posts on the list about this. Kevin Miller and I 
decided some time ago to turn our efforts to finding a "real publisher" 
to handle Vol. 1 and to put together a publishing plan for Vols. 2 and 
3. Meanwhile, I release occasional individual chapters (only two so far 
with a third in draft mode now) free to those who joined my RevPros 
community at the Leader level and $5 each to everyone else who is in a 
hurry for a particular chapter and doesn't want to wait for the other 
volumes to be finished en masse.

I will communicate with you offlist about your membership.


> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com
> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Mark 
> Brownell
> Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 10:11 AM
> To: How to use Revolution
> Subject: Re: Plea to sell Dan's book widely
>
>
> On Thursday, August 5, 2004, at 09:33 PM, Troy Rollins wrote:
>
>> Convincing a book distributor that Revolution has as much appeal to
>> the unwashed masses as iTunes?
>>
>> Good luck with that one.
>> --
>> Troy
>
> Amazon.com has a small publisher section that would allow Dan / 
> Revolution
> to sell his book from the Amazon website. His book would pop up for any
> requests for books on Runtime Revolution. Of course Dan would need to 
> take a
> 50% reduction in earnings to ask for that level of exposure and the
> percentage of loss to him might even be greater.  It might be better to
> advertise the existence of his book and keep selling it direct. What 
> you are
> really saying is that more Revolution exposure would be nice. 
> Advertising
> could handle both issues and earn enough from it to pay for the print 
> runs.
>
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Dan Shafer, Revolutionary
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