My books arrived!

Bradml

Hey, Is there a CP discount?

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Nish Nishant

Bradml wrote:

Is there a CP discount?

None that I know of :-) The publisher decides all pricing related stuff.

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Jon Sagara

Well done, Nish. Congrats!

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Sathesh Sakthivel

Congratulations Nish.

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Tarakeshwar Reddy

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.

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Marc Clifton

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

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Dan Neely

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).

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Nish Nishant

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.

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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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Marc Clifton

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

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Rajesh R Subramanian

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. :(

Dan Neely

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.

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Nish Nishant

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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Tim Deveaux

Way cool Nish! :beer: :cool: You look kind of different in that hat, tho. :~

Nish Nishant

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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Christopher Duncan

Congratulations, man! I know it feels good to finally be finished and see it on the shelf. Next up: Nish on the lecture circuit... :-D

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DavidNohejl

If you can get your hands on Framework Design Guidelines[^], check references - they link to CP article :) I think it was http://www.codeproject.com/gen/design/APIUsabilityArticle.asp[^]

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DavidNohejl

Congratulations! :cool:

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

but to actually hold a physical copy of the book, with that new-book smell was truly an amazing feeling.

Even better, you can bash someone's head with it, if you want ;)

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Congratulations! You do realise that now you're a celebrity you've got to come along and speakbuy beer at the ACCU Conference[^] next year, don't you...? ;)

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Tim Deveaux

Well, at least they gave you a nice carpet to cover up your jammies. :)