Hi :) Sorry for the extra traffic. I know my emails and ideas have to be rejected without thinking about them so perhaps i should say the opposite of what i mean.
Could someone forwards that information to the international translators team, the L10n one? I feel that if they were able to raise sundry funds in a similar way then it might make them more sustainable or more able to reach a wider audience. I also feel that it's worth using the fund to get into places such as iBookstore or Amazon or anything like that, even if there is a reasonable set-up fee or a fee that is a percentage-of-sales. Even if such places make a loss (as long as that loss is not huge and is well under over-all profits) at least it gets us out there into markets that would otherwise be difficult to advertise in. After seeing your documentation there they might investigate further and then purchase/acquire the guides from elsewhere. Any idea why the German Guides are so low? Is the Lulu Store itself only in English? Are the guides incomplete (ie only the Base Handbook available or somethign like that)? Have the German guides only recently been offered through Lulu? Regards from Tom :) On 25 January 2014 23:12, Jean Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > Friends of Open Document Inc is the publisher of the printed editions > of our user guides (through Lulu.com) and the custodian of income from > sales of PDFs through the Ubuntu store. I have posted their 6-month > interim accounts (July-Dec 2013) to their website. The page for > LibreOffice Docs is > http://www.friendsofopendocument.com/newsite/?page_id=549 > > A reminder: the purpose of publishing and selling printed copies is > not to raise money, but to provide a service to people who want them. > The purpose of selling PDFs through Ubuntu is to raise awareness of > our user guides. Some guides are also available through the iBookstore > (via Lulu, which produces them from the files we provide for printed > copies). > > I have been looking into getting our user guides sold through Amazon > and other venues. In the past Lulu charged a fee for this, but that > has changed. I hope to be able to get the v4.2 and later books into > those outlets as we produce them. > > --Jean > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
