blog/data/2017-06-12-free-culture-sales.txt

   1 Title: Updated sales number for my Free Culture paper editions
   2 Tags: english, docbook, freeculture
   3 Date: 2017-06-12 11:40
   4
   5 <p>It is pleasing to see that the work we put down in publishing new
   6 editions of the classic <a href="http://www.free-culture.cc/">Free
   7 Culture book</a> by the founder of the Creative Commons movement,
   8 Lawrence Lessig, is still being appreciated.  I had a look at the
   9 latest sales numbers for the paper edition today.  Not too impressive,
  10 but happy to see some buyers still exist.  All the revenue from the
  11 books is sent to the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/">Creative
  12 Commons Corporation</a>, and they receive the largest cut if you buy
  13 directly from Lulu.  Most books are sold via Amazon, with Ingram
  14 second and only a small fraction directly from Lulu.  The ebook
  15 edition is available for free from
  16 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">Github</a>.</p>
  17
  18 <table border="0">
  19 <tr><th rowspan="2" valign="bottom">Title / language</th><th colspan="3">Quantity</th></tr>
  20 <tr><th>2016 jan-jun</th><th>2016 jul-dec</th><th>2017 jan-may</th></tr>
  21
  22 <tr>
  23   <td><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/culture-libre/paperback/product-22645082.html">Culture Libre / French</a></td>
  24   <td align="right">3</td>
  25   <td align="right">6</td>
  26   <td align="right">15</td>
  27 </tr>
  28
  29 <tr>
  30   <td><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22441576.html">Fri kultur / Norwegian</a></td>
  31   <td align="right">7</td>
  32   <td align="right">1</td>
  33   <td align="right">0</td>
  34 </tr>
  35
  36 <tr>
  37   <td><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22440520.html">Free Culture / English</a></td>
  38   <td align="right">14</td>
  39   <td align="right">27</td>
  40   <td align="right">16</td>
  41 </tr>
  42
  43 <tr>
  44   <td>Total</td>
  45   <td align="right">24</td>
  46   <td align="right">34</td>
  47   <td align="right">31</td>
  48 </tr>
  49
  50 </table>
  51
  52 <p>A bit sad to see the low sales number on the Norwegian edition, and
  53 a bit surprising the English edition still selling so well.</p>
  54
  55 <p>If you would like to translate and publish the book in your native
  56 language, I would be happy to help make it happen.  Please get in
  57 touch.</p>