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I don't understand why you would limit yourself to just doing an ebook. If it's such a great book, why cut out a huge chunk of your market (those who do not wan
by ScottWhigham 16y ago
I don't understand why you would limit yourself to just doing an ebook. If it's such a great book, why cut out a huge chunk of your market (those who do not want/like ebooks)? It seems like it would be trivial to convert an ebook to a printed book.
By choosing the ebook route, I think you also cut your profits massively. This is just my own opinion/feelings so I may not be aligned with how others view it, but I don't value an ebook the same way I do a paper book. I won't pay the same, for example. I expect to pay 25% less at a minimum.
If your book does what you say it does ("describes solutions to business intelligence software problems (namely, prediction)"), then I'd think the lowest I'd consider for a printed copy would be $60 and the highest I'd think for a printed copy would be $400. Settling on somewhere in the middle is tough but I'd probably choose $75 and start with that.
But this is an ebook. I'm not paying $75 for an ebook. I'd pay $40 though.
- thangalin 16y agoThank you, Scott. I did not intend to imply an eBook was the only medium. That said, another HN user wrote the following to me by email: "After thinking about my experience more, I feel a print book is actually not such a great idea for a programming book because things change so fast that the matter gets dated very quickly." And use a print-on-demand service such as Lulu for those who really desire a hard copy.