On 2005-07-01, Jaldhar H. Vyas <suppressed> wrote:
>
> The main benefit of a publisher (apart from an advance :-) is
> distribution. Although e.g. Amazon helps, to meet Owains goal, I think
> we need to be in every main street bookstore and self-published or
> small-press books have a hard time of it.
As a former small-press publisher ( http://mark.stosberg.com/tilt-a-whirl/ ), I recommend going the formal
publishing route. As a small press, we didn't have the marketing
resources (including skills and interest) to get our books into the
hands of many of the people that were interested.
Unless some people here are really interested in book promotion and
marketing, I think we should aim for the options with the best
distribution.
Besides, some big publishers like Oreilly and others will allow making
the book "open source" and available online some reasonable time after
it is published.
> But that's in the future. Let's first see if it can be written. I had
> the same problem as you when it actually came to sitting and writing :-)
I enjoy technical writing myself and have been published on lwn.net,
perl.com, and osdir.com, as well as doing technical editting for Wrox
Press PostgreSQL book. I would be interested to help, or at least write
a chapter about form validation!
Mark
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