Sam's random musings

30-day update: Getting Real, the book

30-day update: Getting Real, the book:

Here’s a 30-day status update on our Getting Real PDF book. We plan on providing these updates from time to time to encourage those considering self-publishing their own books/content in PDF format.

30 days in we’ve sold roughly 5750 copies of Getting Real. We’re counting a transaction as a copy sold, but out of those 5750 transactions, 530 were 10-copy site licenses. So, if you wanted to count each of those site licenses sales as 10 copies, you can add another 5000 or so copies to the total.

We’re happy to see that nearly 10% of the books sold have been in the 10-copy site license flavor. It’s nice to know that people will do the right thing if you give them a fair opportunity to do so.

Total revenue for the book has been around $120,000. Since the book is distributed electronically in PDF format, it’s nearly all profit. Yes, we spent months writing the book, but we would have had to do that anyway if we had chosen to work with a traditional publisher. Plus, if we worked with a traditional publisher that book probably wouldn’t even be out yet.

Since we released the book we’ve been contacted by three traditional publishers interested in publishing a paper version of the book. We’re considering our options.

Wow,

(Via Signal vs. Noise.)