My books arrived!

Bradml

I bet $5 you have memorized that URL.. Anyway that looks like a very interesting book... the shelf does look a little bare... almost 5 cms of free space....

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Aaron VanWieren

Hey they mention code project in the about the author section. Cool!!!:-D

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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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Ray Kinsella

:-D Congrats and well done!

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Bassam Abdul Baki

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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Aaron VanWieren

Congrats man, great publisher too(from what I read in my Java days).

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charlieg

a CPian god in the Atlanta area? Did I understand that correctly?

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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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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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sw thi

Congrats Nish :)

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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

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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Jon Sagara

Well done, Nish. Congrats!

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Sathesh Sakthivel

Congratulations 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.

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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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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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