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I am going back into the Book Publishing Business
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| Sam Sloan 2004-12-25, 5:46 pm |
| I have sold my first ebook and it only took two days;
I am in a celebrating mood now because I just sold my first ebook.
It is no big deal. The book only sells for $3.98, but every little bit
counts.
I have just relisted my ebook in two different places:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...item=4514409071
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...item=5945590330
http://stores.ebay.com/xxcomicsxx-store
I have also thought of a great new title for my book:
"The Case of the Beatriz Marinello"
"A trilling mystery flowing from a bottle of fine wine as our super
sleuth detective seeks to unearth the truth about the missing
$513,000, the slush fund, the undisclosed contract, the court order
and the secret deals."
Available now at a book store near you.
Sam Sloan
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 19:44:01 GMT, sloan@ishipress.com (Sam Sloan)
wrote:
quote:
>My company has published nearly one hundred books since 1968. Because
>of the increased costs of paper and printing, I have not reprinted any
>books for several years. However, ebooks are now becoming popular, so
>I am going to start reprinting a few of them as ebooks to see how it
>goes.
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>I have more than one hundred unused ISBN numbers left over. I got them
>when they were cheap. Now, they are expensive. So, if anybody wants me
>to publish their book, I can assign a new ISBN number to it at very
>low cost.
>
>Here is my first ebook. It contains material the readers of this group
>will already have, so no need to buy it. I have just created this to
>learn the method. It has the picture of a beautiful woman on the cover
>to attract buyers.
>
>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...item=4514187258
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>This book consists of Court Documents filed in New York Supreme Court
>regarding the United States Chess Federation. It includes photographs
>of 13 of the principal parties. This is a Microsoft Reader ebook. If
>you do not have Microsoft Reader, you must download it at
>http://www.microsoft.com/reader Otherwise, you will not be able to
>read this book.
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>This book has two ISBN Numbers:
>ISBN: 1881373037 United States Chess Federation litigation (Orsden
>Press)
>ISBN: 0923891382 Case of Beatriz Marinello (Ishi Press International)
>
>If you buy this book it will either be sent to you by email as an
>attachment or if you prefer you will be directed to a website where
>you can download it. Once it is in your computer, just click on it
>directly and it will automatically come up as a Microsoft Reader
>ebook.
>
>Sam Sloan
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| R.P. Warren 2004-12-25, 5:46 pm |
| Sam Sloan wrote:
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> I have sold my first ebook and it only took two days;>
'There's a sucker born every minute.' - P. T. Barnum
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| Sam Sloan 2004-12-26, 9:46 am |
| On 26 Dec 2004 12:06:41 GMT, gperks2@aol.comnojunk (GrantPerks) wrote:
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>Sam,
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>Isn't the photograph of Beatriz the one that was used on the cover of Chess
>Life?
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>I am sure you are aware that Chess Life and its photographers have all of their
>photo copyrighted.
>
>Grant
I found this photo on the website of the Chile Chess Federation. You
can find it there too, just by searching "Chile Ajedrez Mansilla".
The quality of the photo is very poor. It was cetainly not
professionally done. You cannot claim the rights to that photo unless
you can prove that a Chess Life photographer took it. However, that
would not work either because if you could prove who took it, then you
would have to fire him because of his shoddy work.
Meanwhile, I am looking around for a better photo of Beatriz.
I need a photo of Hanke too. His photo is even worse than the photo of
Beatriz. Perhaps I should ask his relatives in Paraguay.
You will notice that the photos I took myself are vastly better,
including the photo of Seirawan, of Shaughnessy and of Irina Krush.
Sam Sloan
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| R.P. Warren 2005-01-01, 12:47 am |
| Sam Sloan wrote:
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> I have sold my first ebook and it only took two days;>
'There's a sucker born every minute.' - P. T. Barnum
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