On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 12:41 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
... > I think a review process, editorial board, and useful reviews/rankings > on Amazon.com are starting to matter more to people than "it's published by > Springer (or O'Reilly)". These are things we can accomplish > together, and it will be exactly the same amount of work as it would > be to put together a series through Springer. For example, we can > encourage many people on sage-devel to fill out amazon.com reviews of > the books, so people will get a sense that the book has been looked at > by experts. Also, Springer would charge about $40/copy, and give > us about $5 royalties per book. I think we could charge $20/copy and > make twice as much per book sold (not that making money is a > motivation for this sort of thing!), while charging readers half as > much. > > See > > > http://www.amazon.com/Calcul-math%C3%A9matique-avec-Sage-Zimmerman/dp/1481191047/ > > for an example. > > What do people think? Do you think we can create our own series, of > just as high of quality as Springer, but more inexpensive for readers, > and with a creative commons license? I like the idea. It depends on what "just as high a quality as Springer" means. I'm also curious how easy is it be for a library to buy a book from such a custom-made series? Guaranteed university+college library sales would help a lot. > > Would somebody like Minh Nguyen be willing to do technical copyediting > in exchange for a percentage of sales? If sales were low, the money might not accurately reflect the value of the labor, so it would depend on the availability of the editor's time. > > -- William > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-combinat-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-combinat-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-combinat-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-combinat-devel?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-combinat-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-combinat-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-combinat-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-combinat-devel?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
