Re:Show HN: DevBooks – Help Developers find indy books
by kowlo on Saturday January 09, 2021 @07:25AM
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It doesn't sound like you're confused about my point...
Indie Books are books published outside of mainstream publishing. You're misrepresenting what Indie Books are with your own opinion of what you want to see on the site instead.
Re:Show HN: DevBooks – Help Developers find indy books
by de_nied on Saturday January 09, 2021 @05:53PM
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>Indie Books are books published outside of mainstream publishing.
If the books are books for developers, then by now it's clear that they will be sold online. What effect does "mainstream publishing" have on publishing material on the internet? It's the internet. There is 0 meaningful difference if a book has mainstream publishing if both books can easily be listed on Amazon, Ebay, or anywhere else, because it's the internet.
If we take the same definition, as you did, and apply it to books written for developers, then I'm afraid an "indie book" in your context would be literally anything written by anyone on the internet.
My definition was that indie implied a sort of "unknown," as indie games often are.