If you... you could update it and provide a downloadable version for $10.
You could get it reviewed by the socialists, on Counterpunch....and via the hundreds of the people you have interviewed and their net connections??? And make one LBO issue a preview chapter.
Also see if Oxford UP might be interested. The book does have an actual record for selling. $300,000 is not chicken feed.
IF you feel like updating it.
Just sayin,
Joanna
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Pollak" <mpollak at panix.com> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Monday, September 5, 2011 1:38:58 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Dumb QOTD: What kind of labor produces intellectual property?
On Sun, 4 Sep 2011, Doug Henwood wrote:
>> $6000 for the book Wall Street
>
> It was a great deal for Verso, which made something like $300,000 from
> the book.
So you made 2% of the take?
I honestly have to wonder whether you would do any worse on an aggresive cyber tip jar basis. That is, if you wrote a book, told people they could download it for free but if they liked it, the suggested donation was 10 bucks.
Or alternatively, has anyone ever financed a book via Kickstarter? Where nobody would pay unless you reached your goal of say $20k? And then you could do the tip jar on top of that?
Just wondering out loud.
Michael
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