{"id":338,"date":"2014-02-06T11:51:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T16:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/?p=338"},"modified":"2014-02-06T11:51:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T16:51:24","slug":"thoughts-and-strategy-for-scaling-distribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/thoughts-and-strategy-for-scaling-distribution\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts and strategy for scaling distribution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just received news from York University that the book sold out and they need replenishment. The McGill bookstore already sold out twice and I had to replenish their supplies. So in-store sales are working. I&#8217;m counting this as validation. Now let&#8217;s scale things!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have to equip the website with a &#8220;order a box of 10&#8221; option and make a deal with a fulfillment centre so they will take care of the shipping for me. How do I get into WorldCat? Who will print the book in large quantities (Lightning Source?).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been busy working so much on the Linear Algebra book and preparing exercises that I lost track of the business side of things. I&#8217;m going to finish up LA, because it is so close to being done, but I&#8217;m vetoing <em>any<\/em> work on the Electricity and Magnetism title&#8212;we&#8217;ll pick that up in October and it will be ready for January 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Okay Ivansky. Put on the business hat and get things done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just received news from York University that the book sold out and they need replenishment. The McGill bookstore already sold out twice and I had to replenish their supplies. So in-store sales are working. I&#8217;m counting this as validation. Now let&#8217;s scale things! I&#8217;ll have to equip the website with a &#8220;order a box [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}