[OpenID] Call for OpenID book authors ...

[Peter Williams]

If 10 people write it, and donate their 10% funds to the foundation, that's another way.

Writing 1 chapter is a wholly different proposition to close-in book design, where you  are leading a reader through a course of learning...

Multi party/chapter authoring tends to make the book very disjoint tho. But, its low stress. Would normally only target a technical readership tho.

-----Original Message-----
From: scott.kveton at gmail.com [mailto:scott.kveton at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Scott Kveton
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 10:52 AM
To: Peter Williams
Cc: OpenID List
Subject: Re: [OpenID] Call for OpenID book authors ...

Peter: I think you're underestimating the "groupie" factor that
*always* comes along with writing technology books.

</sarcasm>



On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Peter Williams
<pwilliams at rapattoni.com> wrote:
> Beware, that on a sales run of 30k books you can expect to earn total 100k, over 2 years. If 3 authors, that means 30k each, for a lot of effort. The publisher will net revenues of about 1.5M on a 40$ book list price. They will make YOU the authors buy all the returns, note (which are a lot in amazon discount world). Also, your royalty will be structured so you get lower royalty on most internet sales - via discount and "foreign" sales channels.
>
> Negotiate, hard! And don't be a mugg. (I don't know the American term for mugg, sorry).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On Behalf Of Scott Kveton
> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 10:13 AM
> To: OpenID List
> Subject: [OpenID] Call for OpenID book authors ...
>
> Just received this and thought I would pass it along:
>
> "Wiley Technology Publishing is looking for authors to work together
> to create a hands-on OpenID 2.0 Implementation book. If interested,
> please contact Executive Acquisitions Editor, Carol Long, at
> clong at wiley.com."
>
> FYI,
>
> - Scott
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