Great news Dan. I have subscribed to several of the Take Control books
produced by TidBits and find it a very good model, allowing me to pay
for the bits I need and ignore the stuff I am not interested it, or
already know.
Good luck,
Sarah
On 25/02/2005, at 10:58 AM, Dan Shafer wrote:
Dear Fellow Revolution User:
As you know, Runtime Revolution and I have been working for some
months trying to find a conventional publisher to handle the second
and third volumes of my "Software at the Speed of Thought" book
series. I appreciate your patience while we worked on this problem.
The bad news is that we were unable to interest any publisher in the
books. The community is too small at this point. Publishers want to
see upwards of 50,000 users of a product before they show interest in
publishing books about it. While Runtime Revolution certainly plans to
reach that level of penetration in the near future, it doesn't have
those numbers today.
The good news is that we've come up with what I think you'll agree is
a dynamite new publishing plan that more than compensates for the
"missing volumes 2 and 3."
First, I am going to release, over the next nine months, at least 10
new mini-books in electronic form covering many of the topics you were
expecting to see in Volumes 2 and 3, but taking a different, more
topical approach. These eBooks will be offered for sale at prices
ranging from $5 to $10 each. This new approach to publishing was a
pretty hair-brained idea when I started this process almost two years
ago but is now established. That means I'll be publishing deeper
content on a somewhat narrower range of topics.
Second, we're going to revisit Volume 1 of the book, produce a series
of mini-books comprising its content (with corrections,
embellishments, and enhancements), and sell these individually at
$5-10 each.
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