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why this marketing stuff is important

There's a guy who is packaging Debian with a book. I can't say much about
his project, because I get all of this stuff in confidence. However, he
has a problem. The "pipeline" from him to the retail bookstore is longer
in duration than we generally take to make a point release.

Bookstores in the U.S. have a policy that they return anything that does
not sell. If we send 1.3.1 to the bookstores and 1.3.3 is out by then,
this publisher will get a lot of returns, with the retailers asking
him to repackage the books with a newer CD if he is lucky, and not making
another order at all if he is not lucky. Usually the way it works is that
the merchandise sits un-sold for a year and is then returned in bad
condition, and the publisher takes a loss on it.

I really want to see Debian in "Barnes and Noble", "Borders", and your
local bookstore. So I'm motivated to help this publisher.

	Thanks

	Bruce
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Bruce Perens K6BP   bruce@debian.org   510-215-3502


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