[Corpora-List] impossible to sell books on linguistics

[Darren Pearce]

Wouldn't self-publishing be a possibility using Lulu, CreateSpace or any of
the other offerings?

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Dom Widdows <widdows at google.com> wrote:

> Have you considered making a data feed and trying to sell them through
> one of the web marketplaces?
> E.g., Google product search (see http://www.google.com/merchants/).
> (OK, I'm biased and declare an alignment of interests here :-)
> -Dominic
>
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 1:02 PM, Yuri Tambovtsev <yutamb at mail.ru> wrote:
> > Dear Harald, You posted an advertisement that you want to sell linguistic
> > books. What I say is: it is impossible to sell any books on linguistics.
> I
> > tried to sell my linguistic books for low prices three years ago. Nobody
> > wanted to buy them. I have more than 5000 books and have no places on my
> > book shelves. So, my family demanded that I should sell them. Then I
> > proposed to linguists to take them free of charge. Many linguists sent me
> > their address, so that I should pay my postage. Surely, I could not do
> that.
> > I would be surprised to hear if you sell any books. Looking forward to
> > hearing from you soon to yutamb at mail.ru With the best wishes for your
> book
> > sale Yuri Tambovtsev
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