Karen----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Olson" <erik@thekrib.com>
To: "AGA Advisory Committee" <aga-mcm@thekrib.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 11:13 AM Subject: Re: [AGA-mcm] [APD] Re: Kasselmann's Book (fwd)
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 boughtitduring 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 wrongthoughand 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"thickwith 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 notsurehow 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 _______________________________________________ AGA-mcm mailing list AGA-mcm@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-mcm_______________________________________________ AGA-mcm mailing list AGA-mcm@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-mcm-- Erik Olson erik at thekrib dot com _______________________________________________ AGA-mcm mailing list AGA-mcm@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-mcm
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