D Consortium as Book / App Publisher... ?

Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Dec 22 17:33:22 PST 2015


On 23/12/15 5:10 AM, Joakim wrote:
> On Tuesday, 22 December 2015 at 15:33:50 UTC, Jakob Jenkov wrote:
>>> Simple, a blog that you pay to read. :) It's amazing to me that
>>> people still continue to pump out books, such an outdated form,
>>> simply because it has an existing payment model in place, rather than
>>> trying new paid models online.  Simply churning out ebooks or the
>>> equivalent is all they do, when so much more is possible online,
>>> everything from pay-per-post to comments.  The lack of imagination is
>>> simply stunning.
>>
>> I agree. A website / blog allows links to videos etc. and it can
>> be expanded over time, and indexed by search engines.
>>
>> Have you considered using LeanPub for this?
>
> Never heard much about them.  Looking at their site now, I like that
> they focus on getting chapters in front of readers right away, while
> they're being written (which almost every writer should be doing), but
> don't like their emphasis on producing books at the end.
>
> A categorized/tagged blog with comments is a much better experience than
> a static book with a table of contents and index, yet they import blog
> posts and turn them into a book!  The only reason is that books have a
> long-standing payment model in place: it's as though everyone were still
> selling buggies because there are only buggy dealers and no car dealers
> yet.
>
> It is all beyond idiotic: it is amazing how long antiquated ideas stick
> around, only because people cannot imagine anything else.

I've got two books through leanpub.
It is ideal for a magazine or books.

If you want help, please let me know!
I would be happy to help for it.


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