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AFAICT only choices that are likely to make you any money are self-publishing (if done correctly! see links in other comment) and Pragmatic Programmers. PragPro
by itamarst 9y ago
AFAICT only choices that are likely to make you any money are self-publishing (if done correctly! see links in other comment) and Pragmatic Programmers. PragProg pay 50% royalties, everyone else does 10-20%. They published author outcomes a few years ago: http://pragdave.blogspot.com/2013/11/pragmatic-royalties2013-edition.html http://pragdave.blogspot.com/2013/11/pragmatic-royalties2013...
If you don't care about money it's about who you'd like editing your stuff, and who you can sell on your book.
- bigtunacan 9y agoLeanpub pays 90% royalties minus 50 cents per paid purchase. I'm not sure though if some publishers maybe take more steps to help market for their authors or other benefits of differing publishers. 90% of zero sales is still $0.
- itamarst 9y agoLeanpub is a self-publishing platform. I was talking about traditional publishers, where you get an actual editor. Leanpub is just a toolchain.
- bigtunacan 9y agoI may be mistaken, but I always thought Pragmatic Programmers was just a self publishing platform as well?
- itamarst 9y agoNope, they're a real publisher with editors and everything. At one point they did vanity press runs, years ago, but I think they've stopped.
- bigtunacan 9y agoNice; thanks for the info.