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That's crazy sales numbers. Congrats. And I noticed an issue with leanpub sales notifications as well, was pleasantly surprised to see I'd earned more than what
by asicsp 7y ago
That's crazy sales numbers. Congrats. And I noticed an issue with leanpub sales notifications as well, was pleasantly surprised to see I'd earned more than what my emails were indicating. Seems to have been fixed, no discrepancy in last two weeks.
For all my books, I've made it free for a few days and promoted it on HN/reddit/twitter/etc. That period gives me the most sales (as both leanpub and gumroad allow people to pay more than the price of the book).
Before my latest book, due to increasing fear of the pandemic, I made all my books free for the foreseeable future and released the markdown source as well. Then, released the new book early (cutting down exercises and few more things). My post on HN [1] reached front page, in which I also mentioned about my other books. Last month saw the biggest sale ever for me, covers about four months of my living costs. After about two week break, I decided to update all my books (will take about two months). And then back to writing another book.
I also got an offer for one of my books from a publishing company, which I turned down. A few users wrote me a mail, felt nice to discuss and goes a long way in motivating me to continue writing and improving my content. A big thanks to all the readers :)
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22758217 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22758217
- geerlingguy 7y agoFor any author, I think the biggest joy we have is when a reader writes us and gives us some encouragement or helpful ideas/corrections/suggestions. Sometimes, yes, it can be a little burdensome if someone dumps 20 different subjective grammar fixes, but even then, it shows someone cares enough about something I produced that they spent the time to give me some feedback about it. Half the reason I keep updating Ansible for DevOps is because readers keep pushing new ideas or helping fix technical debt incurred by the passage of time in the book's GitHub repo!