Hi Donald, Charles and F/friends,
David, did you mention the Chapman Stick musical instrument maker near Stanford to me some years ago - https://twitter.com/ WorldUnivAndSch/status/ 769991587350872064 and https://twitter.com/ WorldUnivAndSch/status/ 769997267474472966? I heard him yesterday and enjoyed this - http://scott-macleod.blogspot. com/2016/08/golden-trevally- mind-expanding-genies.html.
Since you're (kind of) F/friendly publishers, I thought you might be interested in the following -
Having already passed CreateSpace's internal review, I just
submitted my "Naked Harbin Ethnography" manuscript with its Universal
ISBN in the Academic Press at World University and School IMPRINT to
CreateSpace, and have heard back about this final review within 24 hours
that it's good to go - and soon my book should be available on paper
from my web site - http://www.scottmacleod.com/Ac tualVirtualHarbinBook.html - and - http://amazon.com/author/scott macleodworlduniversity !
Since I chose the Universal ISBN many months ago to BEGIN
the Academic Press at WUaS (planned in all 7,943 languages with machine
translation eventually), and CreateSpace/Amazon doesn't allow this
Universal ISBN to go through their "Libraries & Academic
Institutions" distribution channel, I can apparently create a workaround
for this with an ACADEMIC/LIBRARIES' version by getting a FREE ISBN
from CS which will allow me to distribute my book through their
"Libraries & Academic Institutions" channel in this
ACADEMIC/LIBRARIES' version - to be seen. (Textually, this would mean
apparently I would have to change the Universal ISBN in the first print
edition to the free CreateSpace ISBN for them to distribute this version
through their Libraries channel - and libraries wouldn't have the
Academic Press WUaS ISBN in their database records). With the Universal
ISBN for Academic Press WUaS re CreateSpace/Amazon, I can distribute my
book through
1) Amazon.com
Make your book available to millions of customers on Amazon.com, as well as Amazon.ca.
2) Amazon Europe
Make your book available on Amazon's European websites including Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.it, and Amazon.es.
3) CreateSpace eStore
Your eStore is an online sales detail page where we fulfill all eStore orders and handle the customer service, too.
... and 3 others of their channels ... for which one further opts in ...
4) Bookstores and Online Retailers
By
enabling this channel, you can make your book available to thousands of
major online and offline bookstores and retailers, and expand the size
of the potential audience for your books.
5) CreateSpace Direct
By enabling this
channel, you can make your books available to certified resellers such
as independent bookstores and book resellers. The CreateSpace Direct
program allows eligible resellers to buy books at wholesale prices
directly from CreateSpace.
By enabling this channel, you can make your book available
to public libraries, elementary and secondary school libraries, and
libraries at other academic institutions.
Here's an only slightly dated summary video: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=sN7QmaBcl08 and a marketing video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOT4Wnuv3E8.
Again, I've now gone through my Harbin book's proofs 3
times per CreateSpace's suggestion, and found some changes. Otherwise,
I've gone through most of CreateSpace's checklist process, and am ready
to order a Proof copy on paper. Per the above, I still need to think
through getting another ISBN with CreateSpace, (a third one I think,
which would be free) for their distribution to libraries and academic
institutions, - yet possibly losing control of the book since it will be
their CreateSpace ISBN (and not the initial Universal ISBN I purchased
to make my book broadly accessible), and also they get their ISBN into
libraries (and not my book's initial Universal ISBN into libraries) -
where libraries and academic institutions are big potential buyers (and
they have budgets for buying books). In addition, each of their other 5
distribution channels has a different royalties' structure, which
implications I have to understand (and learn from). It's great that
their software is so selling oriented, but how to be strategic with
these?
Here are some questions I'm wondering about:
Would it be better to postpone the additional CS's free
ISBN for my WUaS's planned 1) bookstore and 2) libraries and 3) planned
academic press, so WUaS can develop our own libraries and academic
institutions list (and deal with them directly?) Waiting would seem to
make sense here possibly. My book is targeting undergraduate, graduate
students and faculty (as well as people with an interest in the 1960s
/1970s) however, so libraries and academic institutions makes sense ...
especially if some faculty will seek their students to read this book in
January 2017 - per these syllabi - http://scott-macleod.blogspot. com/2015/07/syzygium-harbin-ho t-springs-book.html.
I could also contact the Lake County library in Middletown
near Harbin (and a public librarian friend named Sioux in PA) without
getting (a new free ISBN) about CreateSpace's libraries' distribution
channel and see if they can purchase my Harbin book at a fee structure
they're comfortable with through one of CreateSpace/Amazon's 5 other
channels. I would thus see how this ecosystem of distribution channels
and book economics works out.
I'd like to keep some distribution control re sales to
libraries for translation, academic press, my WUaS's bookstore, and our
relationship with our own planned libraries and other libraries -
planned in all 7,943 languages - but I'd also like my Harbin book to
sell well in 2016 - the year in which it's published.
I'm now going to charge $64.95 for my Harbin book (having
engaged CreateSpace's software for this, and not the $59,95 that the
book in which my previous academic chapter goes for), and likely use
their Kindle "complex conversion kit" which costs $139 as well. I would
need to sell 3 copies of my Harbin book for the Kindle, if I charge this
much on the Kindle, to recoup my costs here. I can think of 1 or two
friends who have a Kindle, and who might purchase my book with its 180
pictures .. Is it worth it? My book is interactive, and buddingly
interactive as Google Street View develops, for example, too. (Could I
even develop my Harbin book into a kind of meditative warm water therapy
resource eventually?:)
How too to develop a) an Xmas season and b) academic marketing plan (per these 5 or so academic syllabi - http://scott-macleod.blogspot. com/2015/07/syzygium-harbin-ho t-springs-book.html
- engaging Tom Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in SL" with which I come
into conversation), that I then extrapolate to WUaS's academic press and
bookstore market plans (again potentially in all 8k languages)?
Now to figure out distribution on-the-ground!
Friendly cheers,
Scott
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Friendly cheers,
Scott
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Hi David and Charles,
Well, I just called
CreateSpace, after uploading the post-CreateSpace/Amazon-Proof version
with further amendments, to find out whether they could get me a printed
version in time for the UC Berkeley Tourism Studies' Working Group
planning meeting on Friday at 4pm. And yes, if it passes their final
review again (which happened already once) and with a residential
address (I'll probably use one in south Berkeley), and with expedited
shipping, this should be possible. Wow!!! ... To get paper version of
"Naked Harbin Ethnography" in hand will indeed be a landmark!
While
the proof version on paper will cost me as author ~25.75, and the
royalties per book in all three currencies will be about 13 (dollar,
pound and euro), I still haven't found out how much I have to pay to get
copies myself so that I can sell them at signings I organize, for
example, and fear that it will be more than ~25.75. CreateSpace/Amazon
books are all print on demand - amazing and great!
If
you'd like to get a sense of pricing at CreateSpace / Amazon, please
let me know, and I can share the spreadsheet listing the dollars, pounds
and euros and costs in each of their related CreateSpace/Amazon
channels. Do you deal with all three currencies occasionally, Charles,
at Inner Light Books?
And here's their video on royalties: https://www.youtube .com/watch?v=1GmHwjt_EUc - and their video on marketing - https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=aOT4Wnuv3E8 - which I didn't include in my earlier email.
It's
possible, again, that after the first printed "proof" version, that I
as author may not be able to pay the ~25.75 cost price to get more
copies of my book, and that I would have to indeed pay more. Hmmm ...
Marx's Das Kapital recently sold for $90,000 dollars - http://scott-macleod.blogspot. com/2016/05/high-alpine- flowers-western-friend.html
- and although I doubt that I'll stock up on my "Naked Harbin
Ethnography" and store them for 150 years as their prices appreciate, it
might be a good idea. :)
Hopefully, however,
making my book accessible on paper will help me settle the tenure track
MIT Media Lab junior faculty position to begin January 1, 2017 (and
potentially from out here for a few years) :) Per Harvard professor of
education Karen Brennan, with a Media Lab Ph.D. whom I saw at a Scratch
Rollout in the Exploratorium in May, if it looks like a duck, walks like
a duck ... https://twitter.com/ TFiveFifty/status/ 768527828895797248 .... and thus develop my Harbin research further, as well as World University and School!
Hopefully duckily,
Scott*
Hi David and Charles (and Nelson),
Further publishing-to-paper progress here: I just ordered two paper versions to Proof - great word - for 25.63 each and 18.97 for priority shipping to receive this by Thursday (to an address in Berkeley) - costing $75.10 (with tax!). (I hope this paper version with help settle my MIT faculty position to begin on January 1, 2017). And, although I'll probably buy the "Complex Kindle Conversion Kit" for $139, and may only charge something like $20 per copy on that proprietary platform, I'll wait to do so until after I proof my Harbin book's paper version!
Friendly regards, ScottFurther publishing-to-paper progress here: I just ordered two paper versions to Proof - great word - for 25.63 each and 18.97 for priority shipping to receive this by Thursday (to an address in Berkeley) - costing $75.10 (with tax!). (I hope this paper version with help settle my MIT faculty position to begin on January 1, 2017). And, although I'll probably buy the "Complex Kindle Conversion Kit" for $139, and may only charge something like $20 per copy on that proprietary platform, I'll wait to do so until after I proof my Harbin book's paper version!
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