Should I Stop Authoring and Start Pirating?
Andrew Savikas of O’Reilly writes about Piracy on O’Reilly Radar When Authors Ask Us About the Consequences of “Piracy”. He quotes Nat Torkington: Fantastic! There’s absolutely nothing you can do about...
View ArticleOpen Source Writing: Part I: A Few Problems with Publishing…
If you are just tuning in, Common Java Cookbook is an experiment in transparent, open writing. I’m trying to develop this book and make frequent releases every one to three days. The idea behind this...
View ArticleO’Reilly Talks Open Publishing
O’Reilly Tools of Change 2009: Tim O’Reilly makes the argument for Open Publishing from Open Publishing Lab @ RIT on Vimeo. The post O’Reilly Talks Open Publishing appeared first on Discursive.
View ArticleSelf-publishing experiments (Lulu vs. BookSurge)
Jury is still out, I’ve decided to do some self-publishing experiments so I can get a sense of what is out there. I’ve uploaded a book to Lulu (I’m not telling you which one, and it is still a private...
View ArticleSome Thoughts on Lulu
Ok, I’ve been using Lulu for book distribution for a few weeks. First reactions follow. Where Lulu Works Domestic Distribution (US): – I’m frequently sending 40 book shipments throughout the US and...
View ArticleThe Right Price for a Free Book
I’ve got an interest in the answer to the following question: What is the right price for a 300-page book that is freely available online? If you have an opinion, please vote in this poll:...
View ArticleFree Books Build an Audience, Just ask the Founder of SAS
From today’s NYTimes article on SAS and the challenges it faces from IBM here is an interesting scene. Goodnight built an audience sending free books. Granted, this was before the advent of electronic...
View ArticleRoyalties and Reality
This post should be something everyone who has ever received a royalty check should read. I’m not going to say I’ve ever received a royalty check that was anything less than truthful, but I do resonate...
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Use the Creative Commons License for Free Books
One important thing to consider if you are planning on writing a free book is the license for the work. Traditional software licenses have some clauses that are not relevant to books or electronic...
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Get on with it, Programming Books are Wikis
I used to write books. It was fun, it took forever. It drove me crazy, and it involved feeling great about a printed artifact. Years of struggle and focus yields a perfectly printed, bound bit of...
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