Money wise my limited experience with publishers is that offer a pretty small margin to the author, something like 10 - 15% after the first 500 copies are sold in royalties. Advance payments can be hard to get.
It seems so old school to do it this way. I say just go for it yourself, offer it for free if reading via html, or for a small amount to download a pdf. In a similar way that 37signals released their book called Getting Real (for startups) Also be careful with your ip (and hard work), at least make the git repo private amongst ur collaborators/reviewers. Good luck! Regards, Tim Koopmans On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 3:02 AM, Željko Filipin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Sai Venkatakrishnan > <[email protected]> wrote: >> How about using something like lulu. You can give PDF downloads and do >> print on demand. > > Good idea. That is an option. > >> Also is it possible for me to pre order a copy now :) > > I will need a few reviewers, and all of them will receive a free book and be > mentioned it the book. > > Since I have mentioned reviewers... I have created google group for the > book: > > http://groups.google.com/group/watirbook/ > > Please request membership if you are interested in reviewing. > > I plan to post current draft of the book as a few txt files once or twice a > month. I am writing the book in plain text using markdown syntax. It is in > git repository, of course. You could fix bugs and comment in txt files, I > would just compare them to the original and see your changes. > > Maybe it would be easier to give people access to my git repository. I have > to think about that. > > Željko > > _______________________________________________ > Wtr-development mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development > _______________________________________________ Wtr-development mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development
