It took a long time, but the publisher of my book and my company finally agreed on a method of selling the PDF of my Rails book not only on CD (and only to people in germany) but – as it should be – as a downloadable version.
I have setup a small shop at http://rails-praxis.myshopify.com/ with a standard Shopify template and using Fetch.app to handle the digital downloads.
This is a temporay solution until the publisher can handle digital downloads (which means, that it will be in place for quite some time I guess)…
So with that: if you enjoyed the book, go out and buy the PDF and show my publisher, that indeed, there is a market for digital, non-DRM, PDFs and that readers are willing to pay for the advantages of digital.
November 25th, 2008
On Halloween Friday was the Somesso conference on social media in Rüschlikon. After last weeks Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin, this was a fresh and new conference put on by Arjen Strijker.
There were quite a few bloggers covering the confernce, the usual slew of pictures taken and of course a lot of chatter on twitter.
I was invited by Arjen to do a short pitch on Headshift. As others have noticed:
Es waren einige Agenturen darunter und einige davon waren bereits über 5 Jahre alt. Ob man sich dann noch als Startup bezeichnen darfn?
(
ricdes)
phogenkamp, Blogging Tom and
when did Headshift become a startup? I love you guys, but you’ve been around too long to be called that, imho.
(
Stephanie)
You guys are of course absolutely right, and I take the blame for that: The thing I promptly forgot to mention in my micro-presentation (I blame nervousness), is that we just have started the Headshift Switzerland project. While Headshift itself is about 5 years old, Headshift Switzerland just started as the result of a discussion between Lee and myself at this years Lift08 in Geneva. After several long discussions with Lee and Livio we reached agreement on how this could work out. So: Headshift Switzerland is the startup, Headshift the mothership. Sorry for giving a false impression. As for ‘not a technology startup… Well, there were some interesting boxes in the Lab at Headshift Towers. Just not quite ready to be talked about :)
The other bloggers have done a good job at recapping the conference, Arijen did a great job with the conference itself, and I met a lot of really interesting people and took some new ideas – one will hopefully materialise in a blog post soon.
November 2nd, 2008
