Writing a software book and making over $100k
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#2I'm the book author, so if you have any questions, let me know.
Re: Writing a software book and making over $100k
#3I'm the book author, so if you have any questions, let me know.
Congrats on your book launch!
Re: Writing a software book and making over $100k
#4I'm the book author, so if you have any questions, let me know.
Congrats on your book launch!
Thanks. I pre-launched it in November 2015 and launched the final version in October 2016. By 2019, I had managed to sell over 5000 copies and make over 100k. I'm thinking of releasing a second edition in 2021 or 2022.
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#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
Congrats on your book launch!
Thanks. I pre-launched it in November 2015 and launched the final version in October 2016. By 2019, I had managed to sell over 5000 copies and make over 100k. I'm thinking of releasing a second edition in 2021 or 2022.
That’s incredible man!! All the best for your second book!
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#6Thanks, this is inspirational. Glad to see writing about "a niche in a niche" as you put it in one of your tweets can do so well for an individual author (provided they do it as intelligently as you did).
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks. I pre-launched it in November 2015 and launched the final version in October 2016. By 2019, I had managed to sell over 5000 copies and make over 100k. I'm thinking of releasing a second edition in 2021 or 2022.
That’s incredible man!! All the best for your second book!
Thanks
Re: Writing a software book and making over $100k
#8I'm the book author, so if you have any questions, let me know.
If everything in the book was also in your blog posts, didn't that dampen sales of the book? This is my fear, if I give it away, no one will buy it.
Re: Writing a software book and making over $100k
#9I'm the book author, so if you have any questions, let me know.
If everything in the book was also in your blog posts, didn't that dampen sales of the book? This is my fear, if I give it away, no one will buy it.
Packaging, convenience, lack of redundancy and logical structure are worth a lot if your time is valuable. ConversionXL sell video courses for $600 each that have ~the same content as their endless series of blog posts. But the video course has a beginning, middle and end. It’s a polished finished product. The blog posts are raw material. Plenty of academics do similar things when writing books. There’s vanishingly little in any of Bryan Caplan’s that didn’t appear on his blog first but the books are far superior at conveying a theory, rather than more or less disconnected facts.
Re: Writing a software book and making over $100k
#10I'm the book author, so if you have any questions, let me know.
If everything in the book was also in your blog posts, didn't that dampen sales of the book? This is my fear, if I give it away, no one will buy it.
I would assume that his blog posts are what convinced quite a few people to actually buy the book. That said, I'm not too familiar with the book sales industry.
I am familiar with consulting. Initially I thought that giving all special knowledge away for free would be the worst thing I could possibly do.
Boy was I wrong.
Nowadays I give presentations detailing step by step exactly what people need to do in order to achieve some outcome, with as goal that they could do it 100% by themselves if they want to.
My theory is that this leads to more sales due to me becoming more visible + it builds large amounts of trust + the best possible clients are going to be very busy + the best possible clients are aware that they could implement all my advice by themselves, but if having me on board as well increases odds of success by as little as 10% (or increases the total impact by as little as 10%), it is still going to be a win to have me on board as well.