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Sales number for the Free Culture translation, first half of 2016
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5th August 2016
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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, 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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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 +my surprise, the English edition is selling better than both the +French and Norwegian edition, despite the fact that it has been +available in English since it was first published. In total, 24 paper +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
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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 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.

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The ebook edition is available for free from +Github.

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If you would like to translate and publish the book in your native +language, I would be happy to help make it happen. Please get in +touch.

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