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Apart than the fact that the editors were not native English speakers and I had to spend quite a bit of time reverting several of their editing changes, the whole process was generally smooth and distraction-free (although note I haven't really written a book before so I can't really compare to other publishers) with a few exceptions: 1) Depending on the editor team assigned to your book, they may introduce arbitrary…
I wrote for them too. My book was published last May. I made a similar workflow to you. I wrote using vim and markdown, then used pandoc to convert to HTML. I then wrote some scripts to mangle the HTML to something more compatible with Packt's system (adds some class names and the like). Regarding sales, they send me royalty statements for each quarter about 3 months after the quarter's end. For example, my book was…
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#21I had already set up an author-central account on amazon.co.uk but it seems like sales info (looks like it's US-only) is only available if you also sign up for an author-central account on amazon.com