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I chose to self-publish this short book. Self-publishing streamlines the process and keeps the retail cost to a minimum. For this reason, I encourage you to buy the eBook from Xlibris who have given me control over setting the eBook price.

I have priced the book as low as possible. In a word, it's cheap. The income on the book is minimal to cover the costs of the art work, editing, distribution and the Web site.

I'm a professor at a publicly-funded university. My research is paid for by public funds, and I wrote this short book during my sabbatical year. Canadian tax dollars have already paid for my research and writing. So, this book is simply part of my scholarship and my public contribution as a scholar in the community.

Did you know that we don’t get paid for the scholarly journal articles we write? Well, we don’t. We don't get paid for the time we spend reviewing our peers’ manuscripts and research either. We do the research and we submit it for publication in journals without a charge. This short book is offered up in the same spirit of public scholarship.

As I noted above, we provide our scholarly journal articles freely to journals. Journal publishers, on the other hand, charge for access through subscriptions or individual downloads of articles. There are costs to the production and dissemination of published materials.

Similarly, I have expenses that are not covered in my work that relate directly to the book. For example, I hired an editor to produce the best prose possible. The cartoons and art work are produced by an artist whom I have paid, In addition, I have expenses for the Web site. Although I have provided my podcasts, blog and cartoons at procrastination.ca for free, nothing is truly free, and I have invested a great deal of time and my own money to provide these resources. My eBook is the first resource for which I have had to seek to recover my costs.

Despite what we may believe as users, the Internet is not free when we consider the costs of bandwidth, servers and the tools required to do our work. I do not want to take an advertising route to cover costs, which is a typical business model for the Internet. I am a proponent of a "user pay" approach with the very low costs that the Web can provide through an economy of scale (it's that "many hands make light work" approach, where volume keeps costs very low for any individual).

If the sales of this eBook demonstrate to me a real economy of scale, I will make future publications even less expensive. My goal is to share what I learn, but I have to at least break even in the process.

I welcome your feedback as a reader and consumer. Let me know what you think of my philosophy at feedback@procrastinatorsdigest.com