News of Shafer eBook Publication Plans

[Sarah Reichelt]

Great news Dan. I have subscribed to several of the Take Control books 
produced by TidBits and find it a very good model, allowing me to pay 
for the bits I need and ignore the stuff I am not interested it, or 
already know.

Good luck,
Sarah

On 25/02/2005, at 10:58 AM, Dan Shafer wrote:

> Dear Fellow Revolution User:
>
> As you know, Runtime Revolution and I have been working for some 
> months trying to find a conventional publisher to handle the second 
> and third volumes of my "Software at the Speed of Thought" book 
> series. I appreciate your patience while we worked on this problem.
>
> The bad news is that we were unable to interest any publisher in the 
> books. The community is too small at this point. Publishers want to 
> see upwards of 50,000 users of a product before they show interest in 
> publishing books about it. While Runtime Revolution certainly plans to 
> reach that level of penetration in the near future, it doesn't have 
> those numbers today.
>
> The good news is that we've come up with what I think you'll agree is 
> a dynamite new publishing plan that more than compensates for the 
> "missing volumes 2 and 3."
>
> First, I am going to release, over the next nine months, at least 10 
> new mini-books in electronic form covering many of the topics you were 
> expecting to see in Volumes 2 and 3, but taking a different, more 
> topical approach. These eBooks will be offered for sale at prices 
> ranging from $5 to $10 each. This new approach to publishing was a 
> pretty hair-brained idea when I started this process almost two years 
> ago but is now established. That means I'll be publishing deeper 
> content on a somewhat narrower range of topics.
>
> Second, we're going to revisit Volume 1 of the book, produce a series 
> of mini-books comprising its content (with corrections, 
> embellishments, and enhancements), and sell these individually at 
> $5-10 each.