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Re:Writing: Good Career Move, Terrible Career by fredgrott on Monday May 15, 2023 @05:47PM (#35954944)
You are not exactly outliner as I had calculated that it would take 11k copies to make a living assuming that you are selling a weekly newsletter to the same audience.

There is also that myth-might-be-true thing of selling to developers book-wise means that you are targeting two groups those who cannot afford 2nd screens and those who can...i.e. print copy and electronic copies should be at different prices.

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Re:Writing: Good Career Move, Terrible Career by WalterBright on Monday May 15, 2023 @06:23PM (#35955315)
> those who cannot afford 2nd screens

You can pick up an extra monitor at a thrift store for around 10 bucks. My 2nd monitor came from a thrift store. I use it for displaying the manual while I'm working.

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Re:Writing: Good Career Move, Terrible Career by j2kun on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @12:36AM (#35957797)
After the first year, I made my book's electronic version "pay what you want."
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