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15 <a href=
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23 <div class=
"title">Sales number for the Free Culture translation, first half of
2016</div>
24 <div class=
"date"> 5th August
2016</div>
25 <div class=
"body"><p>As my regular readers probably remember, the last year I published
26 a French and Norwegian translation of the classic
27 <a href=
"http://www.free-culture.cc/">Free Culture book
</a> by the
28 founder of the Creative Commons movement, Lawrence Lessig. A bit less
29 known is the fact that due to the way I created the translations,
30 using docbook and po4a, I also recreated the English original. And
31 because I already had created a new the PDF edition, I published it
32 too. The revenue from the books are sent to the Creative Commons
33 Corporation. In other words, I do not earn any money from this
34 project, I just earn the warm fuzzy feeling that the text is available
35 for a wider audience and more people can learn why the Creative
36 Commons is needed.
</p>
38 <p>Today, just for fun, I had a look at the sales number over at
39 Lulu.com, which take care of payment, printing and shipping. Much to
40 my surprise, the English edition is selling better than both the
41 French and Norwegian edition, despite the fact that it has been
42 available in English since it was first published. In total,
24 paper
43 books was sold for USD $
19.99 between
2016-
01-
01 and
2016-
07-
31:
</p>
46 <tr><th>Title / language
</th><th>Quantity
</th></tr>
47 <tr><td><a href=
"http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/culture-libre/paperback/product-22645082.html">Culture Libre / French
</a></td><td align=
"right">3</td></tr>
48 <tr><td><a href=
"http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22441576.html">Fri kultur / Norwegian
</a></td><td align=
"right">7</td></tr>
49 <tr><td><a href=
"http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22440520.html">Free Culture / English
</a></td><td align=
"right">14</td></tr>
52 <p>The books are available both from Lulu.com and from large book
53 stores like Amazon and Barnes&Noble. Most revenue, around $
10 per
54 book, is sent to the Creative Commons project when the book is sold
55 directly by Lulu.com. The other channels give less revenue. The
56 summary from Lulu tell me
10 books was sold via the Amazon channel,
10
57 via Ingram (what is this?) and
4 directly by Lulu. And Lulu.com tells
58 me that the revenue sent so far this year is USD $
101.42. No idea
59 what kind of sales numbers to expect, so I do not know if that is a
60 good amount of sales for a
10 year old book or not. But it make me
61 happy that the buyers find the book, and I hope they enjoy reading it
64 <p>The ebook edition is available for free from
65 <a href=
"https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">Github
</a>.
</p>
67 <p>If you would like to translate and publish the book in your native
68 language, I would be happy to help make it happen. Please get in
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"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/skepsis">skepsis (
5)
</a></li>
446 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard (
52)
</a></li>
448 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stavekontroll">stavekontroll (
5)
</a></li>
450 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stortinget">stortinget (
11)
</a></li>
452 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance (
48)
</a></li>
454 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sysadmin">sysadmin (
3)
</a></li>
456 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/usenix">usenix (
2)
</a></li>
458 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/valg">valg (
8)
</a></li>
460 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video (
59)
</a></li>
462 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/vitenskap">vitenskap (
4)
</a></li>
464 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web (
40)
</a></li>
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