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A related question about making books freely available: I'm currently writing a book about neural networks and deep learning. Ideally I'd like to make the boo
by michael_nielsen 13y ago
A related question about making books freely available:
I'm currently writing a book about neural networks and deep learning. Ideally I'd like to make the book freely available online, with paid ebook and hard copy versions. But I'm uncertain about the impact a free online version will have on sales revenue. Anyone with much hard evidence? Or suggestions for how to make a reasonable amount of money, while keeping the book freely available?
- ArekDymalski 13y agoMaybe instead of free online version you could try "pay what you want" approach? It takes the choice off the shoulders of your readers and increases the chance that the book will be actually read. Will it hurt the sales? I guess to the same extent that the online version (people can save the webpage as pdf anyway).
- garysieling 13y agoYou could look at "Natural Language Processing with Python" for a case study of this - that book is available for free online but seems like people still buy it.