Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 01:19:30 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199711010619.BAA16510@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: book orders X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Content-Length: 1599 Lines: 32 Well 31 October has come and gone, and it is a good thing that we extended the deadline till 30 November because 35 spoken-for books have no yet been formally ordered/paid for (10 of these are from Italy and Sweden, where people are working out collective purchase arrangements, so I know what is going on there. The remainder are still up in the air.) The count is 111 books paid for, 146 spoken for. We are around 1/3 of the way to the break-even point, probably a little less after all the shipping cost are taken care of. Not bad given the negligible advertising that has taken place, but a long way to go before we can finance the next Lojban book. For those interested 15 of the 111 so far paid for are outide the USA (25 of 121 counting the two bulk orders I mentioned above), and 35 of the orders (or around 1/3) have used credit cards, making the decision to get the credit card payment method setup quite justified. I would gues that 1/4 to 1/3 of all orders have been from people not on Lojban List, which shows that our Web site coupled with word-of-mouth is already starting to get us ebook orders. More orders! More donations! 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/" Order _The Complete Lojban Language_ - see our Web pages or ask me.