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This is likely to be the more useful answer here. The biggest benefit comes from listing "author of [book you can buy at bookstore]" on your CV or web site. The
by spdustin 10y ago
This is likely to be the more useful answer here. The biggest benefit comes from listing "author of [book you can buy at bookstore]" on your CV or web site. The marketing power of your name being seen by potential employers (or their employees who point to you as the domain expert of a topic). Not from actual royalties past the royalty advance which, as others have mentioned, would be rare.
Of course, the value of that would depend on if you trade on your name; e.g. if you're a freelance consultant.
- clifanatic 10y ago> The biggest benefit comes from listing "author of [book you can buy at bookstore]" on your CV What about "[book you could buy at bookstore at one point, but not any more]"?
- spdustin 10y agoI guess that would depend on if the book is still relevant to and likely to be owned by the person you're pitching. Or, of course, you're making a glib commentary about retail bookstores, in which case, s/bookstore/amazon\.com/g.
- clifanatic 10y ago> s/bookstore/amazon\.com/g Well, anybody can self-publish on Amazon (and I do mean anybody, including the completely illiterate), so I'm not sure that's a very high bar.
- GFischer 10y agoWhile many can, I'm pretty sure not many actually do :) (at least for technical topics). It depends on whether the employer will care to check your book references or not, I guess.