In your case (for the Addison-Wesley product), that “esoteric niche product” was… how to set up a web server. You could probably find those 2000 readers for it.

In your case (for the Addison-Wesley product), that “esoteric niche product” was… how to set up a web server. You could probably find those 2000 readers for it. I have no idea how A-W treated you as an author, but as a reviewer on that book, I was very well compensated by them, so I assumed they treated authors OK as well.