[consulting] How to write books about Drupal (or anything, I guess)

[Sarah Poger Gladstone]

Tom -  I don't know the revenue figures, the core team of CiviCRM
would know. Also, with Lulu you can set your own price.  With the
FLOSS model, the electronic version is always free.   However, you
could install the tools on your own server, then only make the book
available via a "store" either Lulu or Amazon, etc.

Also, some people have ordered a batch of Lulu hard-copy books, then
took them to conferences and sold them at a profit.  ( This was done
with a FLOSS manual other than the CiviCRM manual. )

The point of view of the folks at FLOSS is that not enough regular
folks (non-technical people)   use open source tools. One of the
reasons for this is lack of good documentation that is up to date.
Their aim is to improve the adoption of open source tools by making
sure that there is free, good quality documentation that is easy to
keep up to date.

-Sarah

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Tom Geller <tom at tomgeller.com> wrote:
> Sarah Poger Gladstone <listmember at gladstone.info> writes:
>
>> Another option for getting a book published, which also allows
>> multiple authors/volunteers to participate is "FLOSS Manuals"
>> http://en.flossmanuals.net/
>
> Ah, yes. I should have titled this thread, "How to get your Drupal book published by a traditional publisher". There are other avenues to publishing, of course, suitable for varying purposes.
>
> Sarah, do you have any revenue figures for the CiviCRM book? (Money probably wasn't the primary motive for publishing it; I'm just curious.)
>
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