It is, of course, easy to say "Don't do it for the money" when you're structurally guaranteed to be not doing it for 92% of the money.
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There are ways to make a business which supports oneself writing books, as opposed to using them as extraordinarily expensive marketing.
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I know people who had no pre-book audience with 600 people on pre-launch list through tweeting about it. $X0k sales. Not high bar!
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even if you are a Titan like Charles Petzold, it has been dire on the author income front for almost a decade
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Great time to be alive for self-published folks, as many as my friends can attest.
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Definitely don't do it for the money! I have a blog post which has some royalty breakdown charts: http://ryanbigg.com/2015/08/my-self-publishing-success-story/#royalties …
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@reconbot I was offered a good deal less than that and a hard 6 month schedule for 400pp.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I've earned ~25k from going through a traditional publisher (6k copies sold) and ~35k from self-publishing (2.5k copies sold)
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I used leanpub for my book after buying yours - only multitenancy book I could find. Also have Rails 4 in Action. Both are great!
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not pragprog. No advance but 50% profit share. Authors do pretty well.
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they do zero marketing, so you are better off self publishing and keep the other half too.
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