Who has written a technical book (O'Reilly style)? What is a decent advance, royalty scheme, schedule of writing? Gotchas to watch out for in contract? Most of the advantages I can see being non-financial, but I am curious what the market is like.
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For technical books, I'd now default to (a) Kickstarter funded up front; (b) freely available and open source publication; and (c) with a donation button or Patreon to support chapter release.
This is more or less the model I used for http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com , and I'm very happy with it.
