You offered "3,000+ Tech PR contacts!" with your book. Where did you source these contacts? Did they allow their contact to be used in the book, or was this a public aggregation? Do you think that played a big role in selling your book at $100 a pop?
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It's common to point to Patreon and Kickstarter. But the blunt fact is that the number of very high quality creative projects these have supported at a reasonable income is tiny. It's great for those people, but (so far) hasn't provided a scalable model.
I think there's great potential for self-published books with mainstream appeal to be launched via interviews on established podcasts or even independent pod mini-series. IMO, we need to bring back the "wealthy benefactor" for niche writers to free them from academia
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But also: what you want to be paying for is not *a book,* but for a smart person in the grip of obsession to make themselves into a world-class resource. The book is *an* output, maybe not *the* output. Book sales are a terrible funding model
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In the best of worlds, producing a book is a marginal cost to the author, a rounding error on their path to greatness, but hugely valuable to many readers, as valuable as the author's main line trajectory.
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