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It is an interesting proposition, but I do not know why, I feel to give out my book for free, the reason for this might be from the fact that I learned programm

It is an interesting proposition, but I do not know why, I feel to give out my book for free, the reason for this might be from the fact that I learned programming on my own reading free books, the great books came with a hefty price tag, hence I don't feel it morally right to publish my book/tutorial at a hefty $$. Said tutorial/book since people have told me that if it isn't present in actual stores it can't be called a book :) Also, my first book/tutorial is available via leanpub.com, so users can pay if they want, so far hardly 10 have paid, but gitbooks.com where the online version is hosted does get around 200 page views daily + 800 downloads monthly. Leanpub currently has 550+ readers.

tomcam 10y ago
I deeply admire your motives. Am not trying to remove that pleasure from your life, but I will say that very often people who pay tend to appreciate and value one's work product more than if it's free. Thanks for the thoughtful answer.
- thewhitetulip 10y ago
  Thank you! Yes, I do understand that folly regarding money. Money tends to bend reality, there are many psychological experiments done with money, for instance: spending physical money induces more pain than spending money using a card, that's why it is recommended to carry cash around the next time we do shopping (read this in a book Thinking Fast and Slow and observed in real life) I know you aren't trying to remove that pleasure from my life! But the thing is, after open sourcing my tutorial, it has been read thousands of times, and there have been 4-5 readers who went out of their way and communicated to me how much they loved the book and in the words of one reader on HN, "it is one of the best tutorials I have read" regarding webapps in Go. It is a humbling experience for me to hear this from someone else (who isn't my best friend :D) It is a great irony that while documentation is free, books are not. Plus, I am not an author, writing tutorials/books isn't my primary source of income, although I was thinking of keeping the Vue book/tutorial open source on github, it already is, http://github.com/thewhitetulip/intro-to-vuejs/ http://github.com/thewhitetulip/intro-to-vuejs/ and charging money for the PDF, most probably I won't be doing that, let's see. Thanks for your input!
  - tomcam 10y ago
    LOVE the Vue.js book. Thanks for pointing me to it. It's a timely contribution for my work. For a non-writer, you're a damn good writer. Thanks for all your contributions.
    - thewhitetulip 10y ago
      Thank you for your compliment :-) If you like it, please help me in spreading word about it! By the way, I had started writing a novel 2yrs ago, but I am not finding time to complete it! I didn't understand what you meant by "It'ts a timely contribution for my work". The book is far from complete though, and the 5'th chapter was written in two hours :-D. I have observed that (when I take a vacation of a week to program), I am more effective when I have 2hr programming sessions. I'll contact you when the book is done :-)

tomcam 10y ago

I deeply admire your motives. Am not trying to remove that pleasure from your life, but I will say that very often people who pay tend to appreciate and value one's work product more than if it's free. Thanks for the thoughtful answer.

thewhitetulip 10y ago
Thank you! Yes, I do understand that folly regarding money. Money tends to bend reality, there are many psychological experiments done with money, for instance: spending physical money induces more pain than spending money using a card, that's why it is recommended to carry cash around the next time we do shopping (read this in a book Thinking Fast and Slow and observed in real life) I know you aren't trying to remove that pleasure from my life! But the thing is, after open sourcing my tutorial, it has been read thousands of times, and there have been 4-5 readers who went out of their way and communicated to me how much they loved the book and in the words of one reader on HN, "it is one of the best tutorials I have read" regarding webapps in Go. It is a humbling experience for me to hear this from someone else (who isn't my best friend :D) It is a great irony that while documentation is free, books are not. Plus, I am not an author, writing tutorials/books isn't my primary source of income, although I was thinking of keeping the Vue book/tutorial open source on github, it already is, http://github.com/thewhitetulip/intro-to-vuejs/ http://github.com/thewhitetulip/intro-to-vuejs/ and charging money for the PDF, most probably I won't be doing that, let's see. Thanks for your input!
- tomcam 10y ago
  LOVE the Vue.js book. Thanks for pointing me to it. It's a timely contribution for my work. For a non-writer, you're a damn good writer. Thanks for all your contributions.
  - thewhitetulip 10y ago
    Thank you for your compliment :-) If you like it, please help me in spreading word about it! By the way, I had started writing a novel 2yrs ago, but I am not finding time to complete it! I didn't understand what you meant by "It'ts a timely contribution for my work". The book is far from complete though, and the 5'th chapter was written in two hours :-D. I have observed that (when I take a vacation of a week to program), I am more effective when I have 2hr programming sessions. I'll contact you when the book is done :-)