Have you considered leanpub.com? Two advantages: You can release the book progressively as it's written and you get to a substantially larger royalty than you would normally. I know two authors who have had good experience publishing technical books this way. I guess the downside is you have to be bring your own editor and the marketing may have less reach.
Rob On Saturday, March 23, 2013, Steve Piercy wrote: > Howdy, > > While at PyCon, an editor, Rachel Roumeliotis, from O'Reilly Media > informed @mcdonc that they would like to publish books about Pyramid. At > this point we don't have a lot of information about the potential > arrangement or what the books would cover. Discussion amongst Pyramid > folks about the matter is on GitHub. > > https://github.com/Pylons/**pyramid/issues/807<https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/issues/807> > > I am collecting discussion points and questions for Rachel. Here's what I > have so far. > > * What kind of book about Pyramid do you think would be successful? > * We want the IP of Pyramid to remain the property of Agendless/"The > Foundation" (for lack of a better term). > * What level of control over the content would O'Reilly want? > * What level of ownership of the content would O'Reilly want? > * What kind of guidance would O'Reilly provide to the author(s)? > Editorial? Publishing? > > Please reply with any comments. > > In the next week I'll ask Rachel to schedule a Google meetup (or whatever) > so that anyone who has an interest in books about Pyramid can participate > while respecting her time. > > Thank you! > > --steve > > --steve > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "pylons-discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/**group/pylons-discuss?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en> > . > For more options, visit > https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> > . > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
