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Post by potet on Mar 3, 2023 18:15:09 GMT
These archives proved very useful today. A potential Filipino customer claimed that shipping for a Lulu book to his country cost 2000 pesos = US$36.53.
I remembered sending a free copy to a colleague living in Quezon City on 2020-11-07. I retrieved the invoice in the list of my past orders. Shipping and handling had cost 6.15€ = about 359 Philippine pesos. Even though prices have risen, I am sure the man is mistaken.
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Mar 3, 2023 23:57:31 GMT
If you have the invoice I assume that means you paid for shipping? so where did he even get that price from? Then again, that was quite a while ago! Is shipping to the Philippines that slow? (And why is a person from the Philippines not called a Philipino?)
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Post by potet on Mar 4, 2023 11:27:19 GMT
He wrote 2000 pesos to shock me. I doubt this round figure is the right one if he made a simulation with Lulu. He wrote he has a small publishing firm in Baguio (North Luzon) and would like to sign a contract with me and publish my books in the Philippines. They would be distributed by National BookStore, a well-known firm with outlets all over the country. My royalties would be 15% of the retail price (peanuts!). I don't trust him for three reasons: 1) Filipino printers are unable to print letters with diacritics, so I am sure he is like the rest, and his copies would be caricatures of the originals; 2) if I sent him my PDFs, he would probably cheat me on the number of copies sold, and quite possibly sell PDFs on the internet; 3) there is also the possibility that he is not a publisher at all, but has simply devised this trick to get free copies.
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Mar 4, 2023 22:35:51 GMT
If you sent him the PDFs he would possibly just use Lulu or KDP to publish them ...
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