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It's prestigious, and arguably the value of the prestige is worth more than the projected cash. How much money is there in "Game Programming for Haskell", real
by julianeon 4y ago
It's prestigious, and arguably the value of the prestige is worth more than the projected cash.
How much money is there in "Game Programming for Haskell", really? You release with O'Reilly and you get 10% or $1,000. You self-publish and you make more per sale, much more, but make much fewer sales - so, let's say $3,000.
But publishing with O'Reilly, you get accepted on the speaker's circuit and start getting asked to do contract work; publishing on your own, you don't (as much). It's arguably worth losing out on a one-time gain of $2,000 for that.
- ghaff 4y agoI haven't published with O'Reilly but I have published a couple editions of a book with Apress. Yeah, you don't write a technical book (or tech-adjacent) book for the money. But my observation is that a lot of people seem to be more impressed by a book for a known publisher than something you do through Kindle Direct Publishing. I'm not sure that attitude is deserved. There are pros and cons with going through a publisher and am very unlikely to do it again. (Reputational benefits are pretty irrelevant to me at this point.) But no one should go in thinking it's about the money.)