Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2015 19:58:05 -0800
From: Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>
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Subject: [Llg-members] Spending money on CLLv1.1; feedback requested.
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Sending this to the membership as a whole because the board is in
flux.

1.  We published What Is Lojban? with Lightning Source, which I'm
quite happy with.  However, I wanted to mention that if we want to
keep things cheap, *and* we expect to do nearly all of our
sales via Amazon, *and* we don't mind it being soft-cover, we could
do Create Space (Amazon's self-publishing arm) instead; see
http://writeitforward.wordpress.com/2012/06/28/why-is-cool-gus-publishing-switching-from-lightning-source-to-createspace/
and many more such things online for discussions of the issues.

If people don't mind spending the money, we should just stick with
LSI I think.

2.  I need to buy an ISBN for the second edition (this is CLL v1.1,
the not substantively changed version).  Does anyone object?  It's
$125.  Since we're going to need another ISBN for CLL v2, at least,
and any ebook versions we choose to provide (I'd *certainly* like to
publish a Kindle), I suggest we spend $275 for 10 more ISBNs
(there's a deal on right now).

3.  Once that's done, the test print will cost ~$150.  Note that
*this will not be the final test print*.  This is *JUST* to make
sure that the Prince software I'm using produces a PDF that makes
Lightning Source happy and doesn't look terrible.  So there'll be
at least one more test print (at $40 each I think?).

5.  Once it's all ready to publish, we'll need to buy a license for
Prince.  This will cost $500.  I consider this *MOST EMPHATICALLY*
worth the money, because it lets us use our skill at HTML and CSS
(skills that we have A LOT of in this community) to print the book.

Does anyone object to these expenditures?  Any further thoughts?

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