[Foundation-l] Cafepress alternatives?

[Thomas R. Koll]

On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 09:17:38AM -0700, Anthere wrote:

> I am not sure I understood everything yet; but to who
> are these wikireaders gonna be distributed ? Or,
> through which means ? Several means ? Only through
> internet ? In schools ? Meetings ? What are you
> planning ?

The plan is to install a shop and sell them via this shop.
de:Benutzer:Harko has found a Berlin printer who does 1500
copies of WikiReader Schweden and he will sell them via
this shop too.
Depending on how fast they are sold we will also bring some
copies to the WOS3 in Berlin too and sell them there.


> Are they gonna be sold ? If they are, how much ? Why
> sold ?

I'm sure that they're gonna be sold, the PDF is quite popular
(1300 downloads in April and May) and it spread through a few
German blogs (I love them).
The WR Internet will be at 4,60 EURO without shipping, the
WR Schweden about the same price.
3,30 is production cost, 1,- for me and 7% VAT.
I didn't include anything for Wikimedia because I think
that most of the copies will go to our authors (btw, almost 600
registered wrote at the 126 articles) and they already donated
their time. But I add a <h2>note that the customers shall donate
and suggest one Euro, we'll see wether this is successful or not.

The have to be sold to make sure that we can afford further
editions, simple as that.



> Do you consider they are only instrument of
> promotion, or knowledge distribution as well ?

Offline promotion is one intention, getting a step nearer
to the printed Wikipedia is another. But personally I don't
believe that we will ever get a complete printed Wikipedia.


> Were the 3000 dollars  definitly given to support
> WikiReaders, or are they a help to be reinbursed while
> the WikiReaders are sold ?  

The money will be reimbursed, Jimbo wrote that he meant
it as support for starting the German Verein, but that
yet doesn't exists.

ciao, tom
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