Bruno, That's good information. IMHO, the price of your book is a steal...lots of good information for $60. I purchased through Manning and paid $65.24 with all fees/etc. No problem with that. I hope you sell lots of copies so you can make up in volume what you loose in what seems a low royalty %. Yes when you have time to consider the cost of commercial licensing I hope you can see that here too you might want to consider much lower prices and make it up in volume as the current costs make it a non-viable option in my case and in the case of others too if this email thread is any guide.
I too hope to not have upset you. I don't know a lot about iText (yet) but is seems a very good product. -Dave On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Bruno Lowagie <[email protected]> wrote: > Michael Schmodt wrote: >> I hope, I didn't upset you. This is not what I want. As I said, I like >> iText very much and would like to use it in the future. I respect your >> decission to change the license and to get a share from the profits of >> those, who use your lib. Try to see this debate as a valuable feedback >> to determine optimal prices for the lib, that can maximize your income >> as well. > > This is all very interesting information for me. > I'll discuss it with the sales people when the time is right. > (That is: after I've met the final deadline for the book.) > > Dave: I don't know the rates for iText, I can only see the revenue. > I have a dayjob at the University AND I develop AND I write a book. > I'm combining three half time jobs for the moment. > Therefore I don't have the time to do sales at this moment. > > About the book: it's $59.99 (paper) or $34.99 (ebook), and I only > get 10% Royalty on the profits. About 11.000 copies were sold of > the first edition, generating about $28,000 in Royalties. That's > an average of $2.50 revenue per book for me as the author. > > (When people buy the book from Manning, I get more; when people > get it from Amazon, I get close to nothing because the profits on > a book sold through Amazon are much lower.) > > The first book took me 3 months of preparation, 6 months of writing, > the production phase took 9 months (but that was exceptional: at first > Manning didn't want to publish the book, so I had to do a marketing > survey first). During those months, my half time job at the University > was my only source of revenue. > > The second edition took only a month of preparation, and about 7 months > to write (because I created a new set of examples). The production phase > should be much shorter than for the first edition. > > Hmm... this isn't about licenses anymore, but the book is my main > focus for the moment, and this info may be interesting for people > who want to start writing a book ;-) > > best regards, > Bruno > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > Buy the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ > Check the site with examples before you ask questions: > http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ > You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
