Frequent feedback that http://meaningness.com is unnavigable and screens are bad. “Put it on paper!”
If it were ever finished, it would be much too big. So: a
series.
What comes first? How about an overview?
Covering the conceptual framework and ~10 most common stances.
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A paperback should be ~40-80k words. The introductory conceptual framework sections (the only finished part of the book) sum to 23k words currently (~70pp). The first stance chapter, on eternalism, is 43k words currently (~130pp), and is mostly IOUs.
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So an “abridged edition” or concise overview couldn’t start from the existing text & boil out unnecessary details. I’d have write a book-length thing starting from scratch (in terms of wording, rather than ideas). Several months of full-time work. Is that the best use of time?
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If it reached a much larger audience than http://meaningness.com , then yes! Especially if it motivated readers to go deeper into the details, wherever and as they become available. Most pages of http://meaningness.com get a few thousand readers; some, a few tens of thousands.
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Could a paperback introduction to Meaningness reach tens of thousands of readers?
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FWIW, I would read and recommend it. I would guess I have read a book's worth of the content on the site but I suspect re-organizing and thinking through the presentation would increase reader value/unit of time by a fair amount.
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But a lot of work for you so easy for me to say! My limited experience in self-publishing suggests to me though that tens of thousands of copies is very feasible if you were willing to do some basic book marketing (prob just going on a bunch of podcasts)
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It's just much easier to refer people to a book too. I have recommended the site to a number of people, but I would guess uptake on the recommendation would 10x based on book form factor.
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Thank you very much indeed for this advice!
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