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Jeremy, thanks for this book. I bought it today and it’s fantastic. I struggled with mathematics earlier in my career and being able to understand it through co
by jashmenn 8y ago
Jeremy, thanks for this book. I bought it today and it’s fantastic. I struggled with mathematics earlier in my career and being able to understand it through coding is immensely helpful.
As far as self-publishing goes, let’s take inventory of the tasks the author had to do to get this book out the door:
- editing himself 3x over
- building out a latex template
- graphic design for the cover and the website
- “struggled” to find someone to review each chapter
- build a mailing list of 2,000 people
- make a website
- lost steam / hit a wall, as is natural when working mostly alone
- customer service
He could have gone with a traditional publisher to help some of these things, but then he’d get 15% (!) royalties, write in Word (ew), and still have to do most of the marketing.
I’ve written/produced about 6 self-published books (Fullstack React, ng-book, etc.) and I’ve got a system down for semi-self publishing books that deals with all of the above issues.
We’ll help you:
- research and outline the book
- write the book in markdown or latex, using git, plus our custom tools for importing code (which are way better than copy and paste)
- deal with the marketing / cover / branding / graphic design
- review / edit the book and recruit beta readers
- market the book to our (active) email audience of 100,000+ programmers
- deal with customer service
- for 50/50 royalties
Basically we’ll make sure your book is good, it gets finished, and people buy it when it’s done.
(The author of Fullstack Vue earned $20k in royalties on the opening weekend and was not even close to our biggest book.)
If you’re thinking about self-publishing a programming book, I’d love to chat. See: https://www.fullstack.io/write-a-book/ https://www.fullstack.io/write-a-book/
- asicsp 8y agoJashmenn, I just checked it out.. good work! how about very niche topics? I self published a book on Ruby regular expressions last month on leanpub, currently working on Python version of it. Later I plan on command line topics like grep/sed/awk/perl/etc one-liners and stuff like that (I already have lots of material on these topics as tutorials on github, need to convert to books) Selling is the biggest pain point for me
- jashmenn 8y agoAbsolutely. I’d love to do stuff on Bash in particular. Like many of us, I have a decades worth of bash commands collected too and I think editing those and teaching them to other devs would be super helpful. Shoot me an email! (For anyone else reading this, I’d also like to collaborate on a book about Rust, and another on Golang)