Gotchas with traditional publishing is shocking, especially the "Deep discounts" part. >It turns out that a 55% discount was the standard wholesale rate for ma

Gotchas with traditional publishing is shocking, especially the "Deep discounts" part. >It turns out that a 55% discount was the standard wholesale rate for many booksellers, including Amazon. The publisher lied straight to my face. I started with self publishing since I was writing 100 page niche programming books. My main marketing startegy is giving away books for free often, which turned out to be more effective than asking for donations.