My books arrived!
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Aaron VanWieren wrote:
Hey they mention code project in the about the author section. Cool!!!
I was working for Code Project when I created my Amazon bio. I changed jobs and relocated 6 months ago, and I vaguely remembering sending an update to Amazon - but it still shows the old bio :-)
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Congratulations. What I suggest you do is sign them and post them on eBay. Of course for them to be really worth a lot, Smitha would have to axe you. :-D
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:
What I suggest you do is sign them and post them on eBay. Of course for them to be really worth a lot, Smitha would have to axe you.
:laugh:
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Congrats man, great publisher too(from what I read in my Java days).
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Aaron VanWieren wrote:
Congrats man, great publisher too(from what I read in my Java days).
Yeah, Manning's been pretty good. Most of their books were Java-focused till now, but in the last year or so, they've been moving to Microsoft technology books too.
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:jig: :jig: :jig: :jig: Yesterday, the author's copies of my book arrived and it was awesome to hold them in my hand :-) The back-cover has 4 testimonials, 2 of them by CPians - CG and Jambo Johnson. There were times during writing it where I felt exhausted and wondered if I would ever finish it - but to actually hold a physical copy of the book, with that new-book smell was truly an amazing feeling. :cool: Thank you all!
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a CPian god in the Atlanta area? Did I understand that correctly?
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charlieg wrote:
Did I understand that correctly?
Yep, I moved to Atlanta in October :-) I am more in the Marietta/Smyrna region though.
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Bradml wrote:
Congrats Nish. Can you link to the book?
Thanks Brad. The book's here : C++/CLI in Action[^]
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Hey, Is there a CP discount?
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Bradml wrote:
Is there a CP discount?
None that I know of :-) The publisher decides all pricing related stuff.
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:jig: :jig: :jig: :jig: Yesterday, the author's copies of my book arrived and it was awesome to hold them in my hand :-) The back-cover has 4 testimonials, 2 of them by CPians - CG and Jambo Johnson. There were times during writing it where I felt exhausted and wondered if I would ever finish it - but to actually hold a physical copy of the book, with that new-book smell was truly an amazing feeling. :cool: Thank you all!
Regards, Nish
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C++/CLI in ActionFly on your way like an eagle Fly as high as the sun On your wings like an eagle Fly and touch the sun
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:jig: :jig: :jig: :jig: Yesterday, the author's copies of my book arrived and it was awesome to hold them in my hand :-) The back-cover has 4 testimonials, 2 of them by CPians - CG and Jambo Johnson. There were times during writing it where I felt exhausted and wondered if I would ever finish it - but to actually hold a physical copy of the book, with that new-book smell was truly an amazing feeling. :cool: Thank you all!
Regards, Nish
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Congratulations Nish.
Regards, Satips.
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:jig: :jig: :jig: :jig: Yesterday, the author's copies of my book arrived and it was awesome to hold them in my hand :-) The back-cover has 4 testimonials, 2 of them by CPians - CG and Jambo Johnson. There were times during writing it where I felt exhausted and wondered if I would ever finish it - but to actually hold a physical copy of the book, with that new-book smell was truly an amazing feeling. :cool: Thank you all!
Regards, Nish
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
Amazon: About the Author Nishant Sivakumar has extensive experience with Visual C++, MFC, C#, and the .NET Framework. He has been a Microsoft Visual C++ MVP since 2002 and maintains an MVP tips and tricks website and a popular blog. Nish is in charge of several products for The Code Project. He also authored Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework. Nish lives with his wife in Toronto, Ontario.
Shouldn't you be updating your profile Never mind, I just saw your reply to Aaron VanWieren
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Have you ever considered penning a tome? With your experience in declarative programming, you would be an excellent choice for advocating the benefits.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
Pete O`Hanlon wrote:
Have you ever considered penning a tome?
I actually started the process with a publisher once. A couple months into the process I realized I had made too many compromises in order to satisfy the publisher with what they thought (based on reviewers of the proposal) would be a marketable book. Then my editor moved to another location and I got another editor, but neither editor was what I expected (expectations can kill good ideas as well). I had originally wanted to write about automation frameworks, and it devolved into a series of chapters on different programming methodologies like XP, Agile, etc., all of which I was too negative about, and didn't (and still don't) have enough real world experience with. I ultimatey dropped the project and decided that self-publishing (for example, an e-book) would be more in line with my goals. That way, I can write about what I want to write about, and not what the publisher thinks the masses expect and the stores will put on shelves--mostly lightweight beginner crap. Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
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Pete O`Hanlon wrote:
Nice. Congratulations - and let the royalties flow in by the bucketload.
Thanks Pete. And yeah, I am already looking at extra-large 7-bedroom houses in the Atlanta region. :rolleyes:
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Out of curiosity, what level of royalties do you get for writing tech books? I know for fiction the standard's 8% on mass market PBs, and 10-15% (scaled with sales volume) on trade paperbacks and hard cover titles. Breakeven levels for the publisher fall around a 10k print run of mmpbs or 5k for hardbacks with a 65% sell through level (percentage of books actually sold as opposed to shipped to the store and either returned or destroyed unsold, or left gathering dust in someones warehouse).
-- CleaKO The sad part about this instance is that none of the users ever said anything [about the problem]. Pete O`Hanlon Doesn't that just tell you everything you need to know about users?
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Pete O`Hanlon wrote:
Have you ever considered penning a tome?
I actually started the process with a publisher once. A couple months into the process I realized I had made too many compromises in order to satisfy the publisher with what they thought (based on reviewers of the proposal) would be a marketable book. Then my editor moved to another location and I got another editor, but neither editor was what I expected (expectations can kill good ideas as well). I had originally wanted to write about automation frameworks, and it devolved into a series of chapters on different programming methodologies like XP, Agile, etc., all of which I was too negative about, and didn't (and still don't) have enough real world experience with. I ultimatey dropped the project and decided that self-publishing (for example, an e-book) would be more in line with my goals. That way, I can write about what I want to write about, and not what the publisher thinks the masses expect and the stores will put on shelves--mostly lightweight beginner crap. Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh SmithMarc, When I saw Pete's question to you about why you don't write one, I had these two thoughts immediately :- (1) When you write a book, you have to make a lot of compromises to satisfy the publisher and the editor(s). And frankly, I don't see Marc Clifton changing his chapter content or his writing style to suite someone else, specially when he believes his way is the better one :-) [by the way I mean this positively, as in your individuality is very strong - I am not saying you are stubborn] (2) The money. I know you work as a consultant and do contract work. If you wrote a book, the money you'd make out of the book would be a very tiny fraction of what you'd have made if you did contract work for the same number of hours. But yeah, a self-published e-book would be perfect for you. And once an e-book is ready, perhaps a publisher might want to put that in print form too.
Regards, Nish
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Out of curiosity, what level of royalties do you get for writing tech books? I know for fiction the standard's 8% on mass market PBs, and 10-15% (scaled with sales volume) on trade paperbacks and hard cover titles. Breakeven levels for the publisher fall around a 10k print run of mmpbs or 5k for hardbacks with a 65% sell through level (percentage of books actually sold as opposed to shipped to the store and either returned or destroyed unsold, or left gathering dust in someones warehouse).
-- CleaKO The sad part about this instance is that none of the users ever said anything [about the problem]. Pete O`Hanlon Doesn't that just tell you everything you need to know about users?
Starts at around 10% and goes upwards as sales increase. Example : 10% for first 5,000, 12% for 5,001-10,000, 15% for 10,001 upwards.
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Marc, When I saw Pete's question to you about why you don't write one, I had these two thoughts immediately :- (1) When you write a book, you have to make a lot of compromises to satisfy the publisher and the editor(s). And frankly, I don't see Marc Clifton changing his chapter content or his writing style to suite someone else, specially when he believes his way is the better one :-) [by the way I mean this positively, as in your individuality is very strong - I am not saying you are stubborn] (2) The money. I know you work as a consultant and do contract work. If you wrote a book, the money you'd make out of the book would be a very tiny fraction of what you'd have made if you did contract work for the same number of hours. But yeah, a self-published e-book would be perfect for you. And once an e-book is ready, perhaps a publisher might want to put that in print form too.
Regards, Nish
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
I don't see Marc Clifton changing his chapter content or his writing style to suite someone else, specially when he believes his way is the better one
Exactly.
Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
I am not saying you are stubborn
No. Say it. I AM stubborn!
Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
If you wrote a book, the money you'd make out of the book would be a very tiny fraction of what you'd have made if you did contract work for the same number of hours.
It really wasn't the money that interested me, but more the idea of having something tangible published that expressed my views. And there-in lies the root of the problem: "my views". :sigh: All I can say is, thank goodness for Code Project! Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith -
:jig: :jig: :jig: :jig: Yesterday, the author's copies of my book arrived and it was awesome to hold them in my hand :-) The back-cover has 4 testimonials, 2 of them by CPians - CG and Jambo Johnson. There were times during writing it where I felt exhausted and wondered if I would ever finish it - but to actually hold a physical copy of the book, with that new-book smell was truly an amazing feeling. :cool: Thank you all!
Regards, Nish
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C++/CLI in ActionFly on your way like an eagle Fly as high as the sun On your wings like an eagle Fly and touch the sun
Congratulations and wish you good luck. May your great work continue through the future. :) Hey man sorry by mistake I clicked on 4 vote. I am really sorry. :(
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Starts at around 10% and goes upwards as sales increase. Example : 10% for first 5,000, 12% for 5,001-10,000, 15% for 10,001 upwards.
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assuming that's 15% for 10,001 and up not 100,001+ I think those are the same splits as for fiction. I was mainly curious because I'd read that some sorts of technical books had much higher royalty rates that were balanced against more effort needed on the authors part, eg engineering textbooks that were submitted fully laid out using postscript/latex.
-- CleaKO The sad part about this instance is that none of the users ever said anything [about the problem]. Pete O`Hanlon Doesn't that just tell you everything you need to know about users?
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assuming that's 15% for 10,001 and up not 100,001+ I think those are the same splits as for fiction. I was mainly curious because I'd read that some sorts of technical books had much higher royalty rates that were balanced against more effort needed on the authors part, eg engineering textbooks that were submitted fully laid out using postscript/latex.
-- CleaKO The sad part about this instance is that none of the users ever said anything [about the problem]. Pete O`Hanlon Doesn't that just tell you everything you need to know about users?
dan neely wrote:
assuming that's 15% for 10,001 and up not 100,001+
Sorry, that's 10,001. That'll teach me not to use commas when writing numbers. I've corrected the post now.
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:jig: :jig: :jig: :jig: Yesterday, the author's copies of my book arrived and it was awesome to hold them in my hand :-) The back-cover has 4 testimonials, 2 of them by CPians - CG and Jambo Johnson. There were times during writing it where I felt exhausted and wondered if I would ever finish it - but to actually hold a physical copy of the book, with that new-book smell was truly an amazing feeling. :cool: Thank you all!
Regards, Nish
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C++/CLI in ActionFly on your way like an eagle Fly as high as the sun On your wings like an eagle Fly and touch the sun
Way cool Nish! :beer: :cool: You look kind of different in that hat, tho. :~
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Way cool Nish! :beer: :cool: You look kind of different in that hat, tho. :~
Tim Deveaux wrote:
You look kind of different in that hat, tho.
They didn't let me know in advance that they'd take my photo that day. As you can see I didn't even get time to shave.
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