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I'm about 80% finished writing the ebook I emailed you about a few months ago and was planning to launch it with in the next few weeks from my own site as a PDF

by xiaoma 14y ago

I'm about 80% finished writing the ebook I emailed you about a few months ago and was planning to launch it with in the next few weeks from my own site as a PDF, but your praise of Hyperink intrigues me. Especially the help on the design and editing side would be a huge asset. After going to their site and clicking on the link for bloggers, it presented me with a form asking my email and URL and then said they'd follow up when they were ready. Any ballpark idea how that process works? Also, were the new blog posts your idea? I've actually written in quite a bit more depth for the book than I did on the blog. I definitely do want to earn money out of it, but as long as I'm doing it, it's worth doing it properly.

mblake 14y ago
Off the top of my head, I think https://leanpub.com/ https://leanpub.com/ is similar to Hyperink. I think if you do a bit of Google digging you can find stories from authors who decided to self-publish with specifics analysis of their process (what they used, how much time it took, revenue analysis etc.) I think the new blog posts that were added to the book serve as an incentive to buy it, probably a lot of the HN users were already familiar with Patrick and might've needed a little 'push' to click on the purchase button :) Just one of the possible reasons.