Self-Publishing Tech Books

I see they asked you about writing a book. I've been waiting for you to write the definitive book on SEO.Have you thought about bypassing a publisher and just producing a PDF and selling it directly? Then the only cost you'd have would to pay for a good editor and the rest would be profit.I'd gladly pay $50 to learn everything you know about SEO. I'd bet you could sell a couple thousand copies on HN alone. Would that be enough money for it to be worth your while?

I'm in the process of writing a book, Beginning CI/CD, primarily because I have a strange way of learning things, and hoping others might find my teaching style useful. I also struggled with CI/CD and still have those struggles fresh in my mind.While the author of the article is against commercial publishers, I don't think I'll have the same impact if I were to go with the self-publishing route. Either way it's super unlikely I'll make a profit so it might b

You're describing self-publishing a business-related e-book. TFA describes the harsh reality of traditional paper publishing of fiction. It also has a section on self-publishing, incidentally.

I wrote a couple of books recently and have some tips for aspiring authors:* Start by blogging. Try to get thousands of daily pageviews with an average time on page > 5 minutes. Objectively verify you're able to write content that's engaging.* Try to fill a niche. My book is focused on practical advice for getting productive with Spark using the Scala API quickly. There are other books that cover theory, discuss all 4 language APIs simultaneously, and are API documentation

I've written couple of books for a publisher (Practical Docker with Python - first & second editions - published by Apress) as well a co-authored a self published book - The CDK Book.Apress has similar royalty tiers (10 to 20% of revenue, based on books sold) and I did get decent amount of copy edit support.With the co-authorship, despite being four of us, some things slipped through the cracks. That said, with self publishing we were able to get it corrected and shipped - we main

Traditional publishing doesn't earn well.I've written two tech books, one python and one Go.Not have earned me much more than Apress was offering!I'm based in India though, so $ to Rupee conversion is helpful for me.My books are pay as you choose. So if those who can't pay can download my high quality book for free. Total readers till now for Go book has been more than 6k!

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.> I had been approached many times by tech publishers to write books from scratch, but I never found the process and economics attractive.You might want to consider writing the book on leanpub, and then talking to a traditional publisher to adopt the book. At least that's my plan for https://leanpub.com/perl6 (a publisher has approached me, though it's currentl

I never wrote a book.But we all live in the age of e-books and self-published books, so the money involved may be limited to 2-3 digits at most all you need is a strong online presence to be successful.Moreover, finding an audience is also not as difficult as it used to be in the past if you have a large active following base such as https://x.com/levelsio has self-published his book (<a href="https:/&#x

Content is easy to get for publishers, and they have to often invest significant time and money to get the book to market. They often take a risk on printing X copies, and they don't sell, the publisher eats the cost. You can say to just print on demand, but that is costlier per book. They often have to provide editors to clean up the book, do marketing through their channels, and promote the book.Most authors don't do all this guy did. Most simply write the text and leave it there.

You mean self-publishing or finding another publisher.Probably cost and reach.