I'll definitely take a look at LeanPub as a potential path forwards beyond
my initial publication on Lulu.
My criteria for "Stage 0" and "Stage 1" is simply: Get it out there ASAP!
Then, based on feedback, decide what makes most sense to pursue.
You know, agile - incremental progress.
-- Jack Krupansky
-----Original Message-----
From: Stevo Slavić
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 9:39 AM
To: solr-user
Subject: Re: The book: Solr 4.x Deep Dive - Early Access Release #1
Consider https://leanpub.com/ for publishing.
I'm in no way affiliated with them, just have positive personal buying
experience. One can and I regularly give more than what author requested as
min price. For such a work of 1k pages, would definitely pay more than $10.
Kind regards,
Stevo Slavic.
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 3:32 PM, AJ Weber <awe...@comcast.net> wrote:
On 6/21/2013 9:22 AM, Alexandre Rafalovitch wrote:
I might be however confused regarding your strategy. I thought you
were going to do several different volumes, rather than one large one.
Or is this all a 'first' volume discussion so far.
Pricing: $7.99 feels better for the book this size. Under $5 it feels
like it may be mostly filler (even if it is not). I don't think
anybody will pay every month just because it got updated.
I agree that I'm a little confused as to the pricing. Are you saying
you'll keep updating it and everyone would just d/l the latest version
monthly? If so, what's to stop someone from waiting to "subscribe" until
it is entirely complete and just pay the $8 once for the whole thing --
versus those of us (me included) who would be sending our $8 every month
and therefore receiving the same work at 10x the price (for example)?
I'm with one of the previous responses: I'd be willing to pay $30 for
early-access (and updates) to an eBook as a one-time-cost and then when
you
release the final, set it at $40 or more.
