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Re:How I Made $70k Self-Publishing a Book about Ruby on Rails by mnutt on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @07:34PM (#13880944)
What about shopping your book concept around to publishers, validating that there's interest (and that they think you're capable), then if there is, self-publishing?
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Re:How I Made $70k Self-Publishing a Book about Ruby on Rails by ekiara on Thursday March 16, 2017 @03:38AM (#13883231)
Do publishers act as a reliable source for validating your idea? or do you rely purely on your audience, if you can validate your audience directly then you'll be able to get a far more accurate prediction of demand for a book than from the opinions of a publisher's agents.
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