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Re: An Intro for a textbook series

Fair enough. And I will give the editor one good point: He left nice wide margins into which I could write corrections.

Skoob_ym

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Re: What a great feeling!

An Amazon US customer. At 3.5 years per sale, Lulu will have to send me a check in what, 30 years? Hee hee.

BlueAndGold

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Re: Can't access my payment section

I haven't been able to access my revenue page for several days now

silvertonalitie

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My first book took months to start selling and then it was only one copy a month if I was lucky. Took a long time to start getting paid by Paypal. What got things rolling was getting more books out. The one I spent a year writing only sells 2 copies a month if that. The one I spent two hours writing is my best seller and provides most of my income from Lulu. The hardest thing is getting your book seen. Go to Amazon and contact support from your Author Central page and get them to add key search phrases to help get it found. Maybe make a youtube video about writing and show off your book. I find people doing this all the time. But again congratulations on your sale. Wish you many many more!

TheJesusNinja

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Re: An Intro for a textbook series

Skoob_ym said:

That point is also well-taken. I will need to sell -- on solid grounds -- my own qualifications. Never a comfortable thing for any of us.
In addition, however, I think that the thing will sell itself. If we see something that is clearly well made, while we do want to know by whom it was made, and how, we also want to see if the thing in itself is worth having.
I should also add that an essential part of any book, and doubly so in a textbook, is independent review, and in the specific case of non-fiction, independent fact-checking as well.

I think you could split the credentials between a couple of lines in the intro where I agree with Ron and others that you need something to at least grab the reader's attention—"After one of my former students won the Nobel Prize for time travel," or something like that—you could put more details into a Foreward or an "About the author" note also in the front matter.