Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:02:24 -0800
From: Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>
To: llg-members@lojban.org
Message-ID: <20111115030224.GW2500@stodi.digitalkingdom.org>
Mail-Followup-To: llg-members@lojban.org
References: <4E91CF8D.6080309@lojban.org>
 <20111031235307.GN8858@stodi.digitalkingdom.org>
 <4EBD219C.6030802@lojban.org>
 <20111114105507.GR2500@stodi.digitalkingdom.org>
 <4EC10DF5.9010002@lojban.org>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <4EC10DF5.9010002@lojban.org>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)
Subject: Re: [Llg-members] 2011 Annual Meeting - Reports
Precedence: list
Reply-To: llg-members@lojban.org
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Errors-To: llg-members-bounces@lojban.org

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 07:47:49AM -0500, Bob LeChevalier wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> >On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 08:22:36AM -0500, Bob LeChevalier wrote:
> 
> >>Should we consider selling Kindle or other reader-formats, as
> >>well? No idea what the demand might be for these.
> >
> >If at all possible I would like to do so, yes; I believe this to
> >be easy with Lightning Source.
> 
> We might want to consider putting 1.1 out in electronic formats.

Oh, I'm sorry, I was unclear: unless there's a vote against somehow,
all future CLLs will be available online in electronic format (HTML
and PDF at the very list) with the exact same data/format (as able)
as the print version.

The question was if we would offer it in actual ebook formats, which
may (or may not, I haven't researched) be trickier.

IMO, all the current "what's online isn't the real CLL" thing has
bought us is bad will.  I have no evidence that it has cost us sales
to people who could actually reasonably afford a copy.

I suspect that making an ebook would be trivial once everything else
is done, I don't know for sure, so I don't want to promise.

> a) it lets us work out any problems with doing so independent of
> preparing other offerings
>
> b) it seems like it would be less a competition for our printed
> books, as for the otherwise-free online HTML version.
>
> c) we get some idea of the market in the absence of other
> alternatives, which can guide future decisions, since I assume
> that there are some costs in time/effort, and perhaps dollars, for
> each format/offering we make.

Well ideally I'd figure out how to generate EPUB from our source,
and making all three formats (PDF, HTML, EPUB) would be a matter of
running "make", as is true currently for the first two formats.

I believe there is a cost for each format, but it's like $100 or
something.

> But in all this, a major consideration must be how much extra
> workload it imposes on you to turn a draft into a product.

Insignificant.  It's basically "Hey, LS, here's a PDF".

/me loves LS so much.

-Robin

-- 
http://singinst.org/ :  Our last, best hope for a fantastic future.
Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/): The language in which "this parrot
is dead" is "ti poi spitaki cu morsi", but "this sentence is false"
is "na nei".   My personal page: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/rlp/

_______________________________________________
Llg-members mailing list
Llg-members@lojban.org
http://mail.lojban.org/mailman/listinfo/llg-members