I self-published a learn-to-code book and made nearly $5k in pre-orders

Re:I self-published a learn-to-code book and made nearly $5k... by Andaith on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @06:58PM (#9848683)

I'm sorry to wander off topic, but your website just automatically redirected me to some squarespace url( https://tracy-osborn-ic34.squarespace.com/config?frameUrl=/n... ). I'm assuming this isn't normal?

I really like how transparent you're being with the sales per platform, that's rather interesting information to be sharing. I've also never heard of gumroad before, so I'm really surprised by how it stacks up against amazon.

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Re:I self-published a learn-to-code book and made nearly $5k... by limedaring on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @07:04PM (#9848714)

Oh squarespace. That's my "actual" url, guess the custom domain stopped working. Looking into it, thanks!

Gumroad is great, except that they don't market your book like Amazon does, so they're kind of apples and oranges. Most people don't do both platforms and it's been an interesting experiment trying both the hands-off let-Amazon-take-care-of-it vs. more money yet I have to do all fulfillment Gumroad side. I'm actually traveling right now and had to hire someone off of craigslist to ship books for me while I'm gone, it's been kind of a PITA.

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