Message-Id: <199709090717.CAA27629@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: Logical Language Group Date: Tue Sep 9 02:17:14 1997 Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Lojban book X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Content-Length: 1844 X-From-Space-Date: Tue Sep 9 02:17:14 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU Well it has been 9 days since the book announcement, and so far the response is unfortunately underwhelming. I haven't heard from even a small fraction of Lojban List, and it is playing havoc with our planning (not to mention my heart when I contemplate the size of the loan we have to pay off from early sales. At this point, I would like to hear from as many of you as possible reading this list. Please tell me if you a) plan to order the book b) plan NOT to order the book (and if you can tell us why, we;d like to know), and c) if you would be likely to use credit card for payment whenever you do order the book. The number of preorders will affect our print run. We would have trouble justifying 1500 books with the response so far. The expected use or non use of credit cards will affect our ability to afford to service credit cards - we hgave to pay something like $600 the first year plus 3% of sales in order to be able to process Visa nd MasterCard and Amex, and we cannot charge this to the credit card customers like we have previously done. If book sales and inparticular credit card book sales are not going to be high, we will nbeed to find some other way, and do so before we spend that up-front money. So please let me hear from you. If you honestly don't know, that is a useful answer too, because at least I know that you are reading the list. With almost 150 subscribers, the handful of responses cannot be taken as representative. lojbab ---- lojbab lojbab@access.digex.net Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: ftp.access.digex.net /pub/access/lojbab or see Lojban WWW Server: href="http://xiron.pc.helsinki.fi/lojban/"