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Re:Show HN: DevBooks – Help Developers find indy books by mooreds on Saturday January 09, 2021 @09:20AM (#25700570)
I too have a book that is on this list: https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/the-book/

I love the idea of highlighting overlooked books. But when I submitted, maybe I misunderstood the list. From what I read here, it seems like the list maintainers are looking to promote self published books. Or those published by someone other than an non big tech publisher (O'Reilly, APress, Manning)? It's a bit unclear to me.

My book was published by APress. I'm proud of it, but maybe it doesn't belong on this list?

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Re:Show HN: DevBooks – Help Developers find indy books by simon-holdorf on Saturday January 09, 2021 @09:41AM (#25700722)
You should be proud of that and you should be on the list :)

If APress, or any comparable company wpuld suggest adding all their books, I will happily decline that. This is an experiment. I don't know if things work out as expected but I follow the inspect and adapt pattern here. As long as this is not getting abused, everythings fine for me.

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Re:Show HN: DevBooks – Help Developers find indy books by mooreds on Saturday January 09, 2021 @11:55AM (#25701983)
Ah, fair enough, thanks for clarifying! Thanks for promoting the hard work of other authors.
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