[lojban] Re: more on change in Lojban Central ISP

[Logical Language Group <lojbab@access.digex.net>]

From: Logical Language Group <lojbab@access.digex.net>

>Does
>the logical language group get much out of sales through Amazon? Is it worth
>--More--
>plugging the availability of the book through this avenue or do you make
>very little money from it after Amazon get their cut and would prefer we get
>'potential buyers' to email lojbab?

We charge Amazon.com $35 for the books (we didn't raise the price at the end of
the intro period) - at one time we were going to cut this to $30, but they
don't remeber this, and we need the money.  If we were to put links to 
amazon on our site, then I think we get a percentage of the sale, but I
am not sure how this works.

The problem is that amazon.com charges the retail list of $48.  I think that
their overseas charge is in between our surface and airmail charges and
gets there in an intermediate time, so that international orders are
closer to our airmail book order price.  But in any event, the buyer pays more,
which seems more significant to me than the fact that we get a little less.

amazon has generated around 20 of our 225 sales so far.  Barnes and Noble has
generated 5, but so far as I know, none from their online service.

BTW, in addition to purchasing a book and donating it to a library, as some 
have suggested, you CAN ask your library to purchase a copy.  A few orders
have come directly from libraries.  But if you do so, it is worthwhile to
tell them that we require advance payment.  Most libraries have sent us
purchase orders expecting us to bill them, which I have no capability to do.
So we end up exchanging letters which can take months given how slow I
am at getting around to such things.  We have sold around 5 books directly to
libraries.

lojbab

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