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by jstorimer 14y ago
346 hours is both an underestimation and an overestimation. I can say that I definitely did not sit down at the keyboard for 346 hours to put this together. But how do you account for time spent thinking about the content, planning, visuali
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by jstorimer 14y ago
re: the "niche" factor, what do you mean? The fact that the target audience was a subset of programmers? I don't know exact sales volume for the discounted days but as you can see those days brought in the most revenue, so it was certainly
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by jstorimer 14y ago
Saw that just after I finished writing last night. Thanks for sharing!
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by jstorimer 14y ago
Yeah, pricing on the Kindle store is a bit of a nightmare. From what I've read the only folks making money on there are selling books for $0.99 and selling tens of thousands of copies (or more). The royalty from the edition on the Kindle st
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by jstorimer 14y ago
Thanks for reading. I had < 250 twitter followers when I started, < 50 blog subscribers. I had some reputation as a Ruby developer from open source work and participating in different things but I would say I had a very small networ
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by jstorimer 14y ago
I'll publish another post detailing my toolchain, but here's the overview. I wrote the book using Markdown and styled the PDF with CSS using PrinceXML. The kitabu framework ( http://github.com/jstorimer/kitabu ) held it all together and aut
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by jstorimer 14y ago
There are many ways to do pricing and I won't pretend that my method was scientific. Lowering the price of the book may (or may not) have increased revenue. I priced the book this way because I felt it was fair value for the content. These
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by jstorimer 14y ago
The first promotion was advertised on Twitter and RubyFlow. The second was advertised on Twitter and RubyWeekly. Twitter has always been the best way to spread news about the book.
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4 Months Of eBook Sales(jstorimer.com)
122 points by jstorimer 14y ago|52 comments
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Put Your Inbox in the Upstairs Bathroom(jstorimer.com)
4 points by jstorimer 15y ago|1 comments
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by jstorimer 15y ago
Good point. I don't read many graphic-heavy ebooks so it didn't cross my mind. For technical books I've found it feels right at home
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EBooks for Programmers Should Include a TXT(jstorimer.com)
3 points by jstorimer 15y ago|5 comments
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Get It In Writing(habitformed.com)
1 points by jstorimer 15y ago|0 comments
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A Unix Shell in Ruby(jstorimer.com)
3 points by jstorimer 15y ago|0 comments
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Snacking Hierarchy(habitformed.com)
93 points by jstorimer 15y ago|51 comments
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Daemon Processes in Ruby(workingwithunixprocesses.com)
5 points by jstorimer 15y ago|0 comments
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Pairing Is Not Codereview(jstorimer.com)
2 points by jstorimer 15y ago|0 comments
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The Better To RTFM(jstorimer.com)
1 points by jstorimer 15y ago|0 comments
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Exit, exit, abort, raise…Get Me Outta Here(rubysource.com)
1 points by jstorimer 15y ago|1 comments
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When to use STDERR instead of STDOUT(jstorimer.com)
4 points by jstorimer 15y ago|0 comments
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by jstorimer 15y ago
Awesome! Thanks for validating that :)
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Working With Unix Processes(workingwithunixprocesses.com)
20 points by jstorimer 15y ago|3 comments
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The rails command and exec(2)(jstorimer.com)
11 points by jstorimer 15y ago|2 comments
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On Colorized Output(jstorimer.com)
2 points by jstorimer 15y ago|0 comments
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Writing Ruby Scripts That Respect Pipelines(jstorimer.com)
2 points by jstorimer 15y ago|0 comments