I greatly welcome your comment - thank you. I just wanted to point out that the proofreading might have come in a bit cheap: the following sentence on the Amazon summary has grammar errors (missing plurals).
> Data scientist, software engineer or data engineer who have a background in Machine Learning but never work on Machine Learning at scale will find this book helpful.
Re:Writing a book for O'Reilly
by yodsanklai on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @05:52PM
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> proofreading & grammar checking and editing (about $180), latex touch-up and restructure about $100, book cover $100.
It sounds suprisingly cheap
- I published my first book after 8 months of intense writing and editing. I wrote everything from scratch. For the format, I first started with markdown and converted to pdf. I later realized the latex formula is not well supported so I rewrote in Latex. I outsourced other tasks on fiverr: proofreading & grammar checking and editing (about $180), latex touch-up and restructure about $100, book cover $100. I self-published on Amazon and got 60% royalty. It's too early to say but I wouldn't be surprised if I can get 12k for the first year. In terms of time spent, I would probably better off do something else for better ROI.
- I'm working on another book with Packt. They contacted me and the royalty is slightly higher (16%). They tend to push authors to meet deadlines etc. I still have no idea who the editors are and their background.
So if you're passionate about something and you already have followers, you'd be better off with self-publishing.
And here is the book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09YQWX59Z