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I know a couple of O’Reilly authors. I don’t think any of them expected a best-seller or awards from their work, just “I get a high-four or barely-five figure p
by sokoloff 2mo ago
I know a couple of O’Reilly authors. I don’t think any of them expected a best-seller or awards from their work, just “I get a high-four or barely-five figure payment for a competent treatment of a technical topic.”
Maybe you could argue that’s a lightweight version of “approval of others”
- theF00l 2mo agoSurprised to hear that an O'Reilly book will net you less than a month of work for a SWE in the US and some parts of Europe. But I guess the reward is not the money but the expertise and signal.
- geodel 2mo agoThat plus, online, in-person training opportunities.
- FuriouslyAdrift 2mo agoHere's an authors account of royalties received from the no. 2 best selling O'Reilly book at the time (around $500k over 6 years) https://martin.kleppmann.com/2020/09/29/is-book-writing-worth-it.html https://martin.kleppmann.com/2020/09/29/is-book-writing-wort...