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Re: VR Photography update - ebook version
texas360dave 2010-Sep-03 17:21:00
You might if you have not yet done so, broaden your community sales. Maybe distribute it as a downloadable ebook, or large .pdf version.
Dave still at 360texas.com
--- In #removed#, Scott Highton <scott@...> wrote:
>
> Briar,
>
> You wrote:
> "Does this suggest your book will be available in New Zealand?
> Currently it
> costs over 50% of the book price to ship and it would be wonderful if
> someone like a retail store had it."
>
>
> We DO currently ship directly to New Zealand, but international
> shipping charges necessarily apply. The Virtual Reality Photography
> book is a significant volume, weighing close to three pounds.
>
> Although I am in discussions with a company about international
> distribution, if they wind up doing it, they will still have to
> recover their costs of shipping volumes of the book to international
> distribution points, as well as the costs of local shipping to buyers
> ordering in-country. All of these costs normally get passed on the
> the end users via a distributor's local pricing.
>
> I have no idea whether this will even work out at this time, and
> certainly have no feel for how a third party distributor will price
> the book to buyers in non-U.S. countries yet. For all I know, at this
> point, the result may be very similar to what we charge for shipping
> direct, depending on destination countries.
>
> Currently, shipping and handling for international orders is $20 more
> than for U.S orders via the vrphotography.com web site. That actually
> represents a slight loss for us on each international book shipment.
> But I am well aware of the significant shipping costs for buyers, and
> want to keep these as low as possible, even if I lose a small amount
> on these international expenses. I want to make the book as readily
> available as I can to VR photographers throughout the world.
>
> We remain a relatively small community overall (at least compared to
> the scope of the international photographic community), and I want to
> continue to support our group as much as possible.
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
>
> Scott Highton
> Author, Virtual Reality Photography
> Web: http://www.vrphotography.com
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