Thanks for the great thoughts. The main reason why I'm going this is to get 'cred' so to speak. At my last job, we hired a guy who had co-written a peper-publis

Thanks for the great thoughts. The main reason why I'm going this is to get 'cred' so to speak. At my last job, we hired a guy who had co-written a peper-published book on the framework we were using. My company basically threw themselves at him because he was a published author. He wasn't a particular talented or hard working developer. They pretty much hired him on the spot simply because he had written a book. I have another friend who is the lead developer of a popular open source python library, and he can pretty much walk into any company he wants and they'll offer him a job. The guy isn't even that much of a brilliant developer (its not that he 'sucks', he just isn't all that exceptional compared to a lot of other people I've worked with). Ironically, this is one of the topics I'm going to touch on in the book. Self publishing is not as 'prestigious' as being paper published. I personally don't care about readership, nor do I care how many people read my book.