[Coco] Update on CoCo Book

Thu Sep 12 17:58:21 EDT 2013

I'll follow up Bill's post with a "ditto." What we're after is to show the publisher that there is a market for this type of work.

Bill can correct me if I'm wrong, but most books of this type which document the history of other platforms (Commodore, Atari, etc) have been self-published ventures. In our case, we landed a very reputable publisher, Taylor & Francis. This is quite an accomplishment given the landscape.

To their credit, they took a bit of a risk on this book, which is very different from their ordinary offering of highly technical, higher education text books. By sheer determination (and some luck), Bill and I sold them on the idea, and so here we are.

Now we're doing everything to make sure that it's a success and sells well, because if it is, it's also a success for the CoCo community, as well as the broader retro-computing scene.

Best regards.
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Boisy G. Pitre | Founder
Phone 337.781.3570

On Sep 12, 2013, at 3:57 PM, Bill Loguidice <bill at armchairarcade.com> wrote:

> That's a good question. Generally speaking, the prices don't fluctuate much
> post release for a book like this, but there are times when the publisher
> will have discounts that affect the Amazon (and other retailer's) price.
> The good thing with ordering from a place like Amazon is that you only get
> charged when it actually ships, and they automatically give you the lowest
> available price, meaning if the price you locked in at pre-order is cheaper
> than the ship date price, you get it for the pre-order price. It's a
> win-win in that regard.
> 
> I appreciate the comment about royalties. As long as the book is bought new
> from somewhere, it counts as a sale. There's really no money to be made
> here, but we'd love to sell lots of copies of this particular book for a
> variety of reasons, including the difficulty in getting a publisher
> interested in the first place. In other words, I'd love to prove them wrong
> that there's not a good market for a book on an obscure topic like this!
> 
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> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Bill, does Amazon generally discount books more heavily when they are
>> in the pre-publication stage than they do after publication?  Will I
>> likely get a better deal by popping over to  Amazon and ordering now
>> rather than waiting?  (I'm assuming that your royalties don't care one
>> way or the other--wouldn't want to shortchange you personally!)
>> 
>> Art
>> 
>> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Bill Loguidice <bill at armchairarcade.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Retail price is $39.95 for the paperback. The color ebook version is
>>> slightly less. I always recommend that books be purchased online from
>>> places like Amazon or Wal-Mart whenever possible. For instance, the
>>> paperback version on Amazon is presently $33.14.
>>> 
>>> -Bill
>>> 
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>>> Inc.<http://www.armchairarcade.com>
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>>> Film <http://www.armchairarcade.com/film>; About me and other ways to
>> get
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>>> 
>>> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:21 PM, mike delyea <mdelyea at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I'm interested in the book, any idea of what the retail price will be?
>>>> There must have been a bit of Photoshopping on the cocos to make them
>>>> appear so white.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Ronivon Costa <ronivon.costa at gmail.com
>>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Very cool Boisy... first time I heard you are writing this book.
>>>>> Hope it will available everywhere.
>>>>> :)
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 12 September 2013 19:00, Boisy Pitre <boisy at tee-boy.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> We've finally gotten the cover for our upcoming book "CoCo: The
>>>> Colorful
>>>>> History of Tandy's Underdog Computer." You can see it on my blog post
>>>> here:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> http://latenightcoco.blogspot.com/2013/09/almost-done.html
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Best regards.
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>>>>>> Boisy G. Pitre | Founder
>>>>>> Phone 337.781.3570
>>>>>> 
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