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 WalterGR on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @01:02AM (#9849896)

How many hours did you spend on the book to get to this point?

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Re:I self-published a learn-to-code book and made nearly $5k... by limedaring on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @01:22AM (#9849951)

Urg, that might be impossible to estimate. Hundreds on the various tasks (writing, editing, designing, researching, etc.)

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Re:I self-published a learn-to-code book and made nearly $5k... by WalterGR on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @02:17AM (#9850082)

Could you... round to the nearest hundred?

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Re:I self-published a learn-to-code book and made nearly $5k... by limedaring on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @03:49AM (#9850327)

What toelva said! I definitely added a week or so of work by doing all the design myself. Writing... if I focused, I could write another book in two weeks of full-time work (maybe less) but the issue is getting distracted, or taking the time to research, etc. Since the work was spread out over a year with a lot of my time focused on my startup or personal stuff, it's really hard to estimate, apologies.

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Re:I self-published a learn-to-code book and made nearly $5k... by toelva on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @03:07AM (#9850208)

Of course, I can't answer for limedaring but I write software ebooks too. For each ebook, it's between 200 and 300 hours for writing, editing, designing, researching, etc

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