I would think we would HAVE to sell as a package.
The problem is that in
these sorts of deals you really need to have proof
that the buyer owns a
copy of the original work. Otherwise, people would
just buy the $5
not-for-profit translation and the author would get
bilked out of book
royalties.
If we promise that we sell as a package, then we
have something to bring
to the bargaining table with the author (and
possibly their foreign
language publishing company). They will sell a few
more books. Everyone
wins.
Mike Wise requires anyone who wants one of his
apisto translations to send
a xerox of the front cover of the book to prove they
own it.
- Erik
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Larry Lampert wrote:
That might be cool, IMO there are more Crypt-heads
than Echino-groupies. Does anyone have this book?
I love the idea of doing more than one, whether we
package them together or not it gives our book
store
the impression of having twice as much cool stuff.
Larry
--- Phil Edwards <biotypical@hotmail.com> wrote:
I have this book, German edition. I think I
bought
it
during AGA2k3. I am don't remember that there
was a
lot of interest in it other than me and one or
two
other bidders. I could be remembering it wrong
though
and of course the fact that it is written in
German
had a factor in the interest generated.
It is a nice book, hard cover about an 1-1/4"
thick
with gloss pages, but I am not sure how many
people
will be interested in having a black and white
translation to cross index with the text. There
are
certainly some of us me included. I am just not
sure
how many.
Here's a far-out-there idea. What if we did the
same for Neils Jacobsen's
Cryptocoryne book and offered them both as a
bundle
package? That might
help sweeten the pot. Did he write that in
Danish
or German?
Regards,
Phil
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