I sold 640 copies of my book in one year
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I sold 640 copies of my book in one year
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Re: I sold 640 copies of my book in one year
#2Sounds like a great success.
Back when (long before ebooks) I helped with their self publishing. A minimum press run of the book-length projects would often be 500 or 1,000 copies. I'd tell authors to expect to sell half the run or less and to be generous with "review copies" and so on.
Re: I sold 640 copies of my book in one year
#3It looks really useful to me. I am someone that deploys projects to $10 VPS using digital ocean guides for some minimum security setups. Never had a problem.
I'd probably buy this if and when it is offered as paper. I don't really like to read on a screen.
Re: I sold 640 copies of my book in one year
#4Makebook of levels.io was made the same way. Sell the book first, then write it later.
Re: I sold 640 copies of my book in one year
#5Good success. The $24k is misleading, in that there is more 'untapped value' now this has been done once. If he makes a video series based on the same thing for example, it should be easier to make the next $24k using all that is set up for marketing.
Re: I sold 640 copies of my book in one year
#6As one of your 640 customers - thank you!
Having a lightweight reference for simple things that I only do occasionally is a godsend and a massive time saving. I can dive into Deployment from Scratch and tweak something that needs updating, or even deploy a new system in less time than it takes me to lookup and parse/refresh my knowledge from the actual documentation on most topics. And even if I do need to refer to the docs for something not in the book, it is much much quicker as I have the context already.
Re: I sold 640 copies of my book in one year
#7Makebook of levels.io was made the same way. Sell the book first, then write it later.
2.5+ years in, I finally started to sell the alpha version of the book.Re: I sold 640 copies of my book in one year
#8My own experience convinces me there are many extra benefits to having written a book. My first book has been out for 4.5 years now. I know many people on Hacker News have read it and I'm grateful to all of you.I've enjoyed getting emails about it. Especially regarding "badly managed startups" and "abusive bosses" many of you have reached out to share similar stories. Maybe at some point I'll do a blog post that collects some of those email stories. Some people thought I was destroying my career by revealing the dark side of startups, but some entrepreneurs appreciate my realism and practicality, so I've gotten three very lucrative consulting jobs, thanks to that first book. And, surprisingly, the book has gotten more and more popular. It sold more this last year than it sold during its first two years. I assume that at some point the book will seem dated and obsolete, but at least for now it still strikes people as current, so the benefits of writing that book continue to pay dividends.
Re: I sold 640 copies of my book in one year
#9Sounds like a great success. Back when (long before ebooks) I helped with their self publishing. A minimum press run of the book-length projects would often be 500 or 1,000 copies. I'd tell authors to expect to sell half the run or less and to be generous with "review copies" and so on.
Nowadays there are also print on order services which helps a lot to start selling books.
Re: I sold 640 copies of my book in one year
#10This is exactly the resource I was currently looking for! I've recently started a pet project as a way to learn deployment and CI. I work in a big company, where the devops parts are worked on by different teams, are mighty complex and are pretty much black boxes for other teams. I've already submitted my request for the book. Best of luck for the author and thank you!