[TriLUG] TUES: Red Hat and Lulu founder: Bob Young

[Tim Jowers]

OT I guess but has anyone mastered LuLu sales? My eval is LuLu created a new
market of <500 book sales and niche books. E.g. a co-worker wrote a book on
IBM mainframe years ago which may be of interest to <500 people. But LuLu ->
massive sales through Amazon.com seems elusive at best. Anyone else have
experience?

TimJowers


On 10/29/07, Paul Jones <pjones at metalab.unc.edu> wrote:
>
> Bob is also the founder of Gnack.com an Open Media Player and Server
> project
> http://ibiblio.org/pjones/wordpress/?p=2335
>
> Please come and please announce and forward as appropriate. Note new
> location
> at Stone Center.
> Thanks,
> Paul
>
> Handy online printable poster here:
> http://ibiblio.org/dlucas/ibiblio/bobflyer3.pdf
>
> More info:
> http://unc.facebook.com/event.php?eid=5432314676 and
> http://www.ibiblio.org/speakers/
>
> Who: Bob Young, founder of Lulu.com, Lulu.tv and Red hat
>
> Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2007
> Time: 3:30pm - 5:00pm
> Location: 103 Stone Center (new location!!!)
> Street: UNC-CH
> City/Town: Chapel Hill, NC
>
> The connection between Ibiblio, Open Source, Lulu, and the number 42.
>
> Entrepreneurs can be found in all fields of human activity, not just
> business. The common characteristic of Entrepreneurs, and most humans for
> that matter, is they eventually get tired of just listening and throwing
> things at the television set, or the pompous Professor at the front of the
> room, or their software supplier, and instead decide one day to do
> something about it. This explains Paul Jones and Ibiblio, it explains
> Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds of the
> free-software-open-source-gnu-linux movement, and it explains Lulu. It
> also explains the number 42.
>
> About Bob Young
>
>    Bob Young is the founder and CEO of Lulu.com, the premiere
> international
> marketplace for new digital content on the Internet, with more than
> 100,000 recently published titles and more than 2,500 new titles added
> each week, created by people in 80 different countries.
>
> Lulu.com, founded in 2002, is Young's most recent endeavour. The success
> of this company has earned Young notable recognition; he was named one of
> the "Top 50 Agenda-Setters in the Technology Industry in 2006" and was
> ranked as the fourth "Top Entrepreneur for 2006," both by Silicon.com.
>
> In 1993 Young co-founded Red Hat, the open source software company that
> gives hardware and software vendors a standard platform on which to
> certify their technology. Red Hat has evolved into a Fortune 500 company
> and chief rival to Microsoft and Sun. His success at Red Hat won him
> industry accolades, including nomination as one of Business Week's "Top
> Entrepreneurs" in 1999.
>
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