Considering he works for Adobe and prior for MACR, I'd guess he was not making enough to put food on the table solely off book sales.
On 2/14/06, Steve Blades <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There is no money in publishing. unless you have massive sales. There > >aren't enough CF Developers to generate massive sales. > > Yeah, I guess Ben (Forta)'s just livin' on the love.... > > Steve "Cutter" Blades > ColdFusion Application Developer > > > > > >From: Jeffry Houser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: cf-jobs-talk@houseoffusion.com > >To: CF-Jobs-Talk <cf-jobs-talk@houseoffusion.com> > >Subject: Re: Too much experience > >Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 07:23:23 -0500 > > > > There is no money in publishing. unless you have massive sales. There > >aren't enough CF Developers to generate massive sales. I don't think > >publishing is a solution. It will just make 'you' look more experienced, > >and it will be harder to get work. > > > > Framework books are a niche within a niche, and I'd be surprised if > book > >sales would reach 1,000 copies. When I was dealing w/ a publisher, > 20,000 > >was the break even point. If you self publish, I'm sure the break-even > >point is much smaller. > > > > > >At 06:27 AM 2/14/2006, you wrote: > > >Or, you could collect those materials and see if you couldn't market > them > >to > > >a publishing company. Maybe you have a friend within the community who > is > > >looking to publish a new guide to advanced cf programming concepts, for > > >which your materials might make a welcome addition on the bonus CD/DVD. > >Or, > > >you could sit down with some of the other greats within the community > and > > >write a book yourself. > > > > > >There's a very empty niche out there, right now, with regards to CF > > >frameworks. The only books are on FB, and I don't think any of them > even > > >cover 4.1 yet, even with 5 on the way. I sent Hal Helms an email, about > a > > >year ago, about when we might see a book on Mach II (since there was so > > >little documentation out there), and he told me he was just way too > busy > >to > > >write one right then. Still hasn't happened, and I don't think he's > >working > > >on one now either. > > > > > > > >-- > >Jeffry Houser, Software Developer, Writer, Songwriter, Recording Engineer > >AIM: Reboog711 | Phone: 1-203-379-0773 > >-- > >My Company: <http://www.dot-com-it.com> > >My Books: <http://www.instantcoldfusion.com> > >My Recording Studio: <http://www.fcfstudios.com> > >Connecticut Macromedia User Group: <http://www.ctmug.com> > >Now Blogging at <http://www.jeffryhouser.com> > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:11:2887 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/11 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:11 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.11 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
