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Why I sell my book?
Why I sell my book?
I have been receiving a large number of comments on my website about why I sell my book and why I don’t give it away for free. Here is my response to your comments and I hope with this clarification we can put this ridiculous topic to bed.
Here is a quick run down of what it took me to write a book:
Nearly 3 years of work in my free time. Nearly three months in India and about four months without an earning to finish the book. Hiring an editor who took over two months to clean up the manuscript. Hiring a designer who took two months putting the book cover and interior together. Hiring a mapping software company to create custom maps used in the book. Hiring a translator who is about to spend 3 months to translate the book into Telugu. Hiring a web development company that took two months to build the web-site. Twenty other sundry activities.В
Since the books are not printed in bulk, it costs close to five dollars to print a book. Retailers like Amazon take a 55% cut off the list price.
To date, how many copies have I sold through this incredible business venture? 63 copies. Yes, exactly sixty three copies.
How many free copies am I giving away to the media and the law makers? Nearly 600 copies.
The only people that make big money selling books are those that sell over half a million copies- the likes of, Obama, Palin, and the Clintons.
One might question, then why write and publish a book if hardly anyone reads it?
The book serves as a platform to take my message into more popular communication mediums such as the Internet, television, radio, and the print media. For example, my website is getting over two hundred thousand hits a month. The book has been getting air-time on TV and radio. I am also using the book as a tool to influence the law makers in India. I am pushing the book into print media through book reviews.
To those of you still suffering under socialistic syndrome and continue to think that free handouts are a birth right, please allow me to give my philosophical views on free market capitalism.
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