got an email from an (academic) publisher saying "if you're interested in making money, a book may not be for you". this feels weird to me -- obviously money isn't the *only* thing but I feel like there should be a way to make writing into a viable business!!
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Good news: this is a solved problem for tech authors *if*, and it’s an important if, they are willing to devote 80% of their cycles to being a business and 20% to being an author. There are literally hundreds of people I know doing that. It’s a playbook: email email email.
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The brief version of playbook: Price book at $47/$97/$247 with the higher tiers being plus bonus multimedia content (video or code samples). Promote book by writing about topic publicly; capture email signups. Run a launch sequence (~5 emails over ~2 weeks) when book released.
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How many books for you have to sell? Do you have a sense for profit per unit?
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~95% because these folks are mostly doing digital distribution.
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