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There is also a ... "business model" ... for technical books which goes like this. Get someone with a PhD to write a book on something. Around the world there a
by paulajohnson 10y ago
There is also a ... "business model" ... for technical books which goes like this. Get someone with a PhD to write a book on something. Around the world there are about 300 libraries of record which are legally required to hold a copy of everything published. So you can sell them a book that nobody wants for $200 each. That is $60,000 of sales guaranteed, with minimal requirements for copy editing and other forms of quality control. Rinse and repeat for as long as the supply of stage-struck PhDs holds out.
- Robin_Message 10y agoWhen I published a book in the UK, we had to send six copies to the UK copyright libraries. They certainly didn't pay for them. So I'm not convinced by this scam.
- ajuc 10y agoSame in Poland. There are 15 university libraries that get free copy of any book published in Poland and that's in law.
- JacobAldridge 10y agoAnd Australia. I love that I'm listed as an author in the State Library of Queensland, but we even had to pay for postage to get the book there (and elsewhere).