The 'Adventure' In Self-Publishing an IT Book

Posted by Soulskill on Friday March 18, 2011 @08:02AM from the it's-dangerous-to-go-alone-take-this dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Author Keir Thomas has blogged about his experiences self-publishing a computing book. Quoting: 'I knew that publicizing the book would be difficult so I hit upon an idea: Why not give away the eBook (PDF) version? I could use Amazon S3 for hosting the file, so it would cost me just a few dollars per month. Sure enough, giving the eBook away generated a lot of publicity. ... Since going on sale at the start of 2009, the book has made me $9,000. ... I’ve had worse salaries in my life, and I’m very grateful, but I know total royalties would probably have been higher had I gone through the traditional route of working with a mainstream publisher. I estimate I have to give away 446 copies of the eBook for every sale of the print edition.'"

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Re:Yep by smelch · 2011-03-18 08:31 · Score: 2, Funny

They may not have paid for it, but they are adding value to slashdot with their information. What value are you adding to Knight Rider by watching it?

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