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I'm a generalist, and while I enjoy working with new technologies I no longer get a kick out of knowing every itty bitty detail inside out. I've worked in sever
by wlievens 10y ago
I'm a generalist, and while I enjoy working with new technologies I no longer get a kick out of knowing every itty bitty detail inside out. I've worked in several industries in engineering roles (compiler design, geographic information systems, fabless semiconductor device production and testing).
I think writing a technical book could be very enjoyable for me. I'm good at explaining technical stuff, or so I'm told.
But I have absolutely no idea with the profile above what I could possibly write a book about that adds to the state of the art. "Wafer Database Schema Design For Dummies"?
- thewhitetulip 10y agoI am also good at explaining stuff, wrote a book on Go, made it open source because I haven't contributed anything to the FOSS community :) 0 income. Not the best business plan eh?
- amouat 10y agoYou could probably keep it open-source but charge for the print copy and pay-what-you-want for the PDF.
- thewhitetulip 10y agoThat is a good idea, how do I the pay-what-you-want thing? currently the book is on github and gitbooks, so I doubt if anyone would pay for the pdf :-)
- cdnsteve 10y agoI think learnpub does this. Minimum price and suggested price.
- thewhitetulip 10y agoThanks :) Started making a book on leanpub. https://leanpub.com/antitextbookGo/ https://leanpub.com/antitextbookGo/
- thepredestrian 10y agoThis is awesome!
- thewhitetulip 10y agoDo you mean my book? Or the fact that one can self publish books? :)
- IanCal 10y agoThere's a free version of Gumroad and you can sell things with a pay what you want scheme: https://help.gumroad.com/11164-Payments/pay-what-you-want-pricing https://help.gumroad.com/11164-Payments/pay-what-you-want-pr... The premium version of Gumroad is $10 per month, and reduces the cut they take. There's leanpub too, though I don't know if you can upload an already made pdf. Worth checking out though.
- thewhitetulip 10y agoleanpub allows you to get the data from github, my book is already on github, 950+ stars
- IanCal 10y agoOh that's great to know, thanks.
- pc86 10y agoI've bought PDFs where I already had all the information just to support the author. The hard part is letting the people who know about your book already know that they can buy a hard copy/support your work.
- thewhitetulip 10y agoWell, all I can do is put upthe leanpub link to the book on the github page