Boy, I don't see how you got all that out of Ellen's note......... IMHO.
She said "yet".
Skip
At 11:29 AM 11/10/2008, Dave Dahlgren wrote:
>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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