From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 20:40:50 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Publish the Free Culture sales numbers. X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/commitdiff_plain/f0de0454d2f6d851c1db33eb22180b1cb81f1d50?ds=sidebyside Publish the Free Culture sales numbers. --- diff --git a/blog/data/2016-08-05-free-culture-sales.txt b/blog/data/2016-08-05-free-culture-sales.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a045ee7f16 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/data/2016-08-05-free-culture-sales.txt @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +Title: Sales number for the Free Culture translation, first half of 2016 +Tags: english, docbook, freeculture +Date: 2016-08-05 22:45 + +

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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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. 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 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.