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Sales number for the Free Culture translation, first half of 2016
5th August 2016
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As my regular readers probably remember, I published a French and -Norwegian translation of the classic Free Culture book by the founder -of the Creative Commons movement, Lawrence Lessig, the last year. A -bit less known is the fact that due to the way I created the -translations, using docbook and po4a, and also recreated the English -original. And because I already had created a new the PDF edition, I -published it too. The revenue from the book is sent to the Creative -Commons Corporation. So I do not earn any money from the project, I -just earn the warm fuzzy feeling that the text is available for a -wider audience and more people can learn why the Creative Commons is -needed.

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As my regular readers probably remember, the last year I published +a French and Norwegian translation of the classic +Free Culture book by the +founder of the Creative Commons movement, Lawrence Lessig. A bit less +known is the fact that due to the way I created the translations, +using docbook and po4a, I also recreated the English original. And +because I already had created a new the PDF edition, I published it +too. The revenue from the books are sent to the Creative Commons +Corporation. In other words, I do not earn any money from this +project, I just earn the warm fuzzy feeling that the text is available +for a wider audience and more people can learn why the Creative +Commons is needed.

Today, just for fun, I had a look at the sales number over at Lulu.com, which take care of payment, printing and shipping. Much to @@ -43,21 +44,22 @@ books was sold for USD $19.99 between 2016-01-01 and 2016-07-31:

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Title / languageQuantity
Culture Libre / French3
Fri kultur / Norwegian7
Free Culture / English14
Culture Libre / French3
Fri kultur / Norwegian7
Free Culture / English14

The books are available both from Lulu.com and from large book stores like Amazon and Barnes&Noble. Most revenue, around $10 per book, is sent to the Creative Commons project when the book is sold -directly by Lulu.com. The summary from Lulu tell me 10 books was sold -via the Amazon channel, 10 via Ingram (what is this?) and 4 directly -by Lulu. And Lulu.com tells me that the revenue sent so far this year -is USD $101.42. No idea what kind of sales numbers to expect, so I do -not know if that is a good amount of sales for a 10 year old book or -not. But it make me happy that the buyers find the book, and I hope -they enjoy reading it as much as I did.

+directly by Lulu.com. The other channels give less revenue. The +summary from Lulu tell me 10 books was sold via the Amazon channel, 10 +via Ingram (what is this?) and 4 directly by Lulu. And Lulu.com tells +me that the revenue sent so far this year is USD $101.42. No idea +what kind of sales numbers to expect, so I do not know if that is a +good amount of sales for a 10 year old book or not. But it make me +happy that the buyers find the book, and I hope they enjoy reading it +as much as I did.

The ebook edition is available for free from Github.