nickkokonas

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by nickkokonas 6y ago
Hi -- I'm the co-owner of Alinea... the restaurant and group. While they are in different industries, I owned a derivatives trading group for years, run a tech startup (Tock), and am getting a bunch of emails from folks thinking I star
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by nickkokonas 9y ago
both of those costs are mitigated today. Marketing through social media channels is very cost effective. Amazon controls about 2/3rds of all book sales so go on there. And fulfillment and inventory is easily handled at a fixed cost
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by nickkokonas 9y ago
actually that part is easy. You can use a fulfillment company and the costs are known and passed to the consumer. We are using www.Blackbox.cool to do it this time around. Last time we used Warepak
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by nickkokonas 9y ago
In order: 1) the different factors are: number of photos, quality of paper, quality of inks used (bigger difference than you'd imagine), 6 color offset printing, full bleed on every page, veneer on every photo, quality of binding. I
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by nickkokonas 9y ago
You can easily hire a professional copy-editor. In fact, in many instances publishers hire outside third-party experts depending on the subject of the book. Publishing a text-only book with no or minimal pictures is shocking inexpensive.
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by nickkokonas 9y ago
Thank you! I'll let Allen and Sarah know... and reach out.
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by nickkokonas 9y ago
Always exciting to get something up on the hacker news board... weekly reader here for a long time. Happy to answer any questions you may have. -- Nick