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Some notes on self-publishing a tech book
So my book, Data Science for Crime Analysis with Python, is finally out for purchase on my Crime De-Coder website. Folks anywhere in the world can purchase a paperback or epub copy of the book. You…
And then I tell Quarto quarter render, and it turns my writing in those text files into both an Epub and a PDF (and other formats if you cared, such as word or html). WooCommerce ends up being easy, and you can set up the store to host web-assets to download on demand (so when you purchase it generates a unique URL that obfuscates where the digital asset is saved). If I can’t sell 100 copies I have a hard time justifying the effort – it would just be too few of people buying the book to have the types of positive spillovers I want.
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