Hi Deirdre,
Thanks for your call from Harbin Hot Springs at 707-295-6698 this morning, Deirdre. I can't call you back, but let's email. Am including Sunheart, Sajjad and Eric here, in case your email address isn't correct. What is the best email address to communicate with you, Deirdre? Sunheart, Sajjad and Eric, - what please is Deirdre's email address?
Namaste, Scott
Namaste, Scott
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| Oct 3, 2019, 5:49 PM (2 days ago) |  | ||
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Hi Deirdre,
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Thanks again for you call today.
Am wondering if I could possibly explore selling my Naked Harbin Ethnography: book -
Naked Harbin Ethnography:
Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin
by Scott MacLeod
Foreword by Nelson H.H. Graburn
UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus of Sociocultural Anthropology
http://www.scottmacleod.com/
Best,
Scott
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- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President
- World University and School
- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.
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| Fri, Oct 4, 4:11 PM (20 hours ago) | | ||
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Hi Scott,
I’m sorry we couldn’t speak on the phone in person. Currently, we do not have the room in our front office to sell any books. It will be a number of years before we rebuild our facilities.
Best Regards,
Deirdre Davis
Managing Director
Harbin Hot Springs
Heart Consciousness Church
PO Box 782
Middletown, CA 95461
707-295-6698
Fax 707-987-0616
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Hi Deirdre, (and Sajjad),
Thanks for your email, and thanks again for your call from Harbin. If only Harbin had a Paris Book Stall on wheels -
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Paris_75005_Quai_de_Montebello_Bouquinistes_20071014.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouquinistes)
Or a bookstore on wheels -
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- then Harbin could start to earn money on the books it sells right now.
For example, my "Naked Harbin Ethnography" book which lists at $64.95 would bring in $25.98 to Harbin for each copy sold. (The 60%/40% split for booksellers is standard, where retailers - like Harbin in this hypothetical case - would make 40% but where retailers also pay for shipping and handling and other related non-wholesaler/distributor/publisher costs which split the 60%).
And my other two books of poetry - also Harbin-centric - could sell well in such a Harbin Bookstore on Wheels:
Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss
which lists for $9.99
(would bring in about $4.00 per copy sold to Harbin)
Haiku~ish: and Other, Loving, Hippy, Harbin Poetry
which lists for $5.50
(would bring in about $2.20 per copy sold to Harbin)
And I'm planning to publish my 4th partly Harbin-inspired book this autumn as well, price not yet determined:
"To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually!: How different it is to soak at Harbin, than to realize it in virtual reality"
(All these books are published in the NEW Academic Press at World University and School as well - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - planned with machine translation in all 7111 known living languages).
Best Regards, Scott
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World Univ & Sch may seek to develop a fleet of bookstores on wheels, or bookstores in a van ... :)
Am excited this idea for the WUaS Press and the WUaS Corporation in particular.
Costs to bring down in such vans ... besides fuel?
How much revenue could such vans generate in other ways (deliveries, package service?) - in addition to book sales?
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