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Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina  The main reason to release a book is to reach more people, so going with an experienced publisher is probably my best option. I want to work with someone who can take my online work and introduce it to a large offline audience that wouldn't normally read a blog. For that I need a publisher who can effectively leverage what I'm doing online, someone who can think in terms of hundreds of thousands of copies and get the book into all the stores, not just "let's do an initial print run of a few thousand and see what happens." If I'm going to write a book that only sells 5000 copies, I'm better off posting that same content on this web site and scrapping the book entirely. |
I'm a bit surprised by this - it seems counter to your usual "ready-fire-aim" and "third alternative solution" approaches. Do you really have to sit around doing nothing with the book while you try to find an appropriate uber-publisher? (BTW "The Power of Now" was initially released as a small print run, then took off like wildfire.)
I'm also surprised that you've decided to post the content on the website
or in the book. I would've thought that you could post it on both. Paul Graham did that with his book "Hackers and Painters" (successfully, AFAIK). I certainly both own the book
and read the articles on his website.