From lojbab@lojban.org Thu May 23 10:48:37 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_2); 23 May 2002 17:48:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 22831 invoked from network); 23 May 2002 17:48:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 23 May 2002 17:48:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (66.92.190.121) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 23 May 2002 17:48:21 -0000 Received: from [207.226.56.41] (helo=lojban.lojban.org) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17Awhw-0002MA-00 for ; Thu, 23 May 2002 10:49:00 -0700 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020523133139.027dbce0@digitalkingdom.org> X-Sender: lojbab@digitalkingdom.org (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 13:46:27 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] amazon.com & the complete lojban language In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: lojbab X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=1120595 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojbab At 10:00 AM 5/23/02 -0600, Jay Kominek wrote: >Has anyone ever considered providing Amazon.com with scans of the cover of >the reference grammar, so that they can show it on the product page for >the book? We considered doing so for our own Web Page, but have "never got around to it", though I now have a scanner. Since the book is a solid color with only the title on it, there isn't a lot to see in a simple cover scan, but I guess it could be done. Note that amazon is changing the way it deals with special orders, and I don't yet know the details. It may be that we will be unable to sell through amazon any more, if we are unable to deal with their new policy (which I think take effect at the end of the month). >Of course, it'd be even nicer if Amazon.com could be convinced to link to >the web site, but I doubt they'd go for that. We haven't put in a link to them; why would they link to us? It isn't like they make any money selling our books. We offer a very substandard discount (27% or so; they want us to give them a 55% discount, which is the norm in the bookselling industry, but we can't afford to do this). lojbab