In all due respect Ellen possibly he has not turned a profit yet... First
you have to pay the bills then it starts turning into profit other than the
costs of advertising paying someone to pick ship deliver by whatever
means... This is a lot different than a fixed amount per copy sold is
donated and insures that the person that make the generous offer does not
only lose money on the book and ends up contributing money that is not his
to give away but to pay creditors.. Same deal with Newman's Own donating
profits to charities.. if there is no profit there is no donation.. Pretty
simple business 101 to protect the person making the donation from giving
away proceeds that should be used to pay creditors. Look at it this way if
the offer was 1 dollar per copy and 20000 sold the most that would be given
would be 20000 dollars. But is the break even is 20000 copies and the profit
10 a copy.. then the donation 90000.. a wildly generous offer..obviously an
incentive to give the book good reviews and help promote it. This might not
be looked at as a selfish offer on the authors part but a smart move to keep
him out of going potentially bankrupt trying to do something nice..
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ellen Wilkinson" <gary_ellen@msn.com>
To: "autox" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 12:07 PM
Subject: [Land-speed] Fw: 2008 BUB photobook is finished
> Since some of you race at Bub's event you may be interested and not know
> about
> this book. I have checked and Save the Salt does not have a track record
> or
> any info on any contributions from this, yet.
> Ellen
>
>
>
>
> I wanted to let you know that I have a created a photobook from the BUB
> event. This is the third year that I have shot the event for magazines and
> I
> really wanted to give a little back and thought this would be a great
> record
> of the event.
> HALF THE PROFITS FROM THE BOOK WILL BE DONATED TO SAVE THE SALT
> Please spread the word and if anyone purchases one please let me know that
> you
> think..
> Thanks
> Scooter
> www.scootershoots.com<http://www.scootershoots.com/>
>
> It's a book release, and you're invited -- check out my new book at Blurb:
> http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/292101/86152bae2d034fbb485997fd4e7c5f6
> 3<http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/292101/86152bae2d034fbb485997fd4e7c5
> f63>
>
> Thank you,
> Scooter
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