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Reviewed a technical book (and the follow up video course). I then started self-publishing programming ebooks. It's been more than 4 years now and total earnin
by asicsp 3y ago
Reviewed a technical book (and the follow up video course).
I then started self-publishing programming ebooks. It's been more than 4 years now and total earnings has crossed $10,000.
- yyyyddmm 3y agoHi! Can you briefly explain the process? I'm linux and k8s admin and thinking about writing a book. Thanks a lot!
- asicsp 3y agoI mostly focus on a short topic. For example, regular expressions, grep/sed/awk, etc. I prefer having plenty of examples and exercises while learning, so that's what I do while writing the books as well. For producing the ebook, I use pandoc (https://learnbyexample.github.io/customizing-pandoc/ https://learnbyexample.github.io/customizing-pandoc/) to convert from markdown to pdf/epub versions. I also use mdbook to create web versions. I've also collected a few blog posts about book writing from other authors here: https://learnbyexample.github.io/my-book-writing-experience/#resources https://learnbyexample.github.io/my-book-writing-experience/...
- yyyyddmm 3y agoThanks for the reply!
- bhu1st 3y agoHow long are your ebooks? Do you cover a language end to end or only specific aspects of it? I'd like to learn more about your process how can I get in touch with you?
- asicsp 3y agoAround 100 pages. I pick a short topic like regular expressions and CLI tools like grep/sed/awk. For such topics, I start from the basics and go till intermediate-advanced levels. I use plenty of examples and exercises. I've written a few blog posts about my experiences here: https://learnbyexample.github.io/tags/career/ https://learnbyexample.github.io/tags/career/