• Xavier posted an update 12 years ago

    I just saw these two e-books: Bootstrapping an Online Tea Business by Tony Gebely and Tea Company by Peter I. Wildes
    Did anyone read them?

    • bram replied 12 years ago

      No, but I looked them up on amazon.com. Books with a print length of 21-24 pages? Looks more like pamphlets to me.

      • bram replied 12 years ago

        (What does not mean they are not worth it, just something I noticed)

      • replied 12 years ago

        @bram I’m not sure how Amazon calculates the pages, maybe it has a standard based on word count? In my laptop I counted 32 pages for the book, but it changes depending on how big you make the font in Amazon’s cloud reader.

    • Interesting. Of course we all know about Tony, but the other guy…I can’t find anything on him or about his credentials for writing an ebook about starting up a tea company.

      Of course, the Wildes book goes into setting up a tea business as a brick-and-mortar type operation. I just spent $30,000 and several years of my life to earn a degree in Business Administration – if I knew that I could learn that stuff for $5.99 in 20 minutes I would have saved my money.

      I do think Tony’s book would be interesting to read though. He offers a unique perspective because bootstrapping an online tea company together is exactly what he did with the Chicago Tea Garden.

      Worth noting is that @riccaicedo has written a pretty good review about it on his blog, though I would still like to get some details about it. http://www.myjapanesegreentea.com/bootstrapping-an-online-tea-business

      • I forgot to mention that I’m probably going to buy Tony’s book this week, but might be disappointed that he didn’t talk much about his own company, which was something @riccaicedo mentioned in his review.

        • I am probably going to buy it too but in pdf (when I find where I can buy it in this format).

        • replied 12 years ago

          @peter thanks for mentioning my review. Yes, you’ll find that the Chicago Tea Company is practically left out of the book.
          I think that the book is intended for people with less technical experience, you are obviously more knowledgeable than many of us in terms of e commerce, SEO and the like.
          Still the book offers some good insights.