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Like Louis I started writing a book[1] after reading Nathan Barry's Authority. I did it mostly as a learning exercise, and boy did I learn a lot. For example, t
by zrail 13y ago
Like Louis I started writing a book[1] after reading Nathan Barry's Authority. I did it mostly as a learning exercise, and boy did I learn a lot. For example, the first email I sent to my list had blue underlined words that were supposed to be links but didn't get linked. Never gonna let that happen again.
Writing and self-publishing books seems like it might be a little faddish lately, but I couldn't be more excited. A book, even a short one like mine[2], lets you expand on thoughts so much further than you can in a blog post or a tweet. I'm delighted to see all of this longer form thinking taking place in our community.
[1]: https://www.petekeen.net/adventures-in-self-publishing https://www.petekeen.net/adventures-in-self-publishing
[2]: https://www.petekeen.net/mastering-modern-payments https://www.petekeen.net/mastering-modern-payments
- louisdorard 13y agoThis is exactly how I see these new ebooks, not so much as actual competitors to the oreilly kind of books (because they are more concise), but as longer form thinking than blogs. There's a lot of enthusiasm on self-publishing books, and maybe it will be short-lived, but I hope that in the long term we'll have more and more experts in our community who will share their knowledge on niche topics in the long, self-contained and polished form that books are!