RE: Serious Question (believe it or not)...

I'd like to see the spreadsheet on this.....33% return on 10,000 copies of a 36$ book is....<going into human calculator mode>...around an eighth of a MILLION dollars.

Now, I wonder how much it costs you to publish each copy?

Too bad Rachel's Dad isn't on this list! <G>

|| -----Original Message-----
|| From: Hillman, Alex [mailto:Alex.Hillman_at_usmint.treas.gov]
|| Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 4:11 PM
|| To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
|| Subject: RE: Serious Question (believe it or not)...
||
||
|| I am sure that any of working DBA's have this money to put
|| up front. I don't
|| think that risk to invest in the book is more than in the
|| stock market. Also
|| what is the problem to hire editor (especially not
|| technical). Should not be
|| too expencive. Of cource it is more work, but one can get
|| much more money.
||
|| Alex Hillman
||
|| -----Original Message-----
|| Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 3:26 PM
|| To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
||
||
|| self-publishing houses charge you to publish the book (yes,
|| they do, that's
|| how my father-in-law published his book)
||
|| I also doubt that they give you much in the way of help in
|| editing your
|| book, so that if your English is not good (as the case of
|| the author that
|| Jonathan is working with) you end up with an unreadable book.
||
||
|| >From: "Hillman, Alex" <Alex.Hillman_at_usmint.treas.gov>
|| >Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
|| >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
|| >Subject: RE: Serious Question (believe it or not)...
|| >Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 07:45:49 -0800
|| >
|| >I would one of self-publishing houses like Technion where
|| you can get 33%
|| >of
|| >sales.
|| >If your book is any good it will sell in the same volume as
|| with any other
|| >publisher (not that they spend a lot of money for promotion
|| any way).
|| >
|| >Alex Hillman
|| >
|| >-----Original Message-----
|| >Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 4:31 AM
|| >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
|| >
|| >
|| >First would be to prepare and send a synopsis to the
|| >'big name' oracle publishers - O'Reilly, Wrox and the
|| >like..
|| >
|| >hth
|| >connor
|| >
|| >--- Jim Hawkins <jhawkins_at_primary.net> wrote: > All,
|| > >
|| > > I am very interested in collaborating with others in
|| > > the writing of an
|| > > Oracle technical book (DBA subject matter). I am
|| > > interested in how those of
|| > > you who have done this (ala Rachel), got started or
|| > > made the right
|| > > connections. I do have a somewhat literary
|| > > background, so I know I can do
|| > > this.
|| > >
|| > > Jim
|| > >
|| > > Jim Hawkins
|| > > Lead SAPR/3 Oracle Database Administrator
|| > > MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc.
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