Hi, Cees and other Squeak-dev/foundation folks!

Thanks for all your interest and enthusiasm over our DVD and 
soon-to-be-available Etoy project book! It's wonderful to see the 
'flurry of activity'.

The PayPal option we chose as our sales and distribution mechanism 
seems to be working well.   Obviously by charging $6 for the DVD we 
are not "making money" but hoping to cover cost of the DVD itself, 
cover and shipping...we just want to be able to afford to keep the 
DVD "in print" and available for distribution far and wide as it is 
desired.

If anyone wanted to by bulk and take to ESUG, etc. I still think the 
easiest way for Viewpoints to handle the income would be via PayPal, 
but obviously if we received an order for anything over a few DVDs 
and/or books we would probably then ship to Europe via Fed Ex.

I don't think the book will be available in time for ESUG -- when 
does it start?  The 25th?  I am just expecting to receive delivery of 
the books next week and I still don't know exactly which day.

Anyways...thanks to all of you for your enthusiasm!  I am seeing lots 
of familiar names coming through the PayPal orders -- I wish we could 
afford to send these at no cost to each of you for all you've done, 
but vpri is still not "wading in the dough"....
best regards,
Kim



At 11:55 AM +0200 8/16/03, Cees de Groot wrote:
>On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 08:23, Alan Kay wrote:
>>  I'd love to have more folks on the Squeak List get interested in
>>  making even better and more extensive environments for children.
>>
>In order to spread the word This Side Of The Pond, would it be an idea
>(maybe for Squeak e.V.?) to order a box of books and a box of DVD's and
>start reselling them here? Somehow, I doubt that 6 dollars is enough to
>get a DVD to me here (nevertheless, I just tried by paying though Paypal
>;-)), and I'd rather see Squeak e.V./VPRI making some money on the DVD's
>than Fedex or whoever gets to fly these things across the Atlantic.


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