Self-published Ansible book – 87k copies, 300k revenue, 41 revisions https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/self-publishing-technical-book-10-years #writing #selfpublishing
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Jeff Geerling (geerlingguy@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Jun-2023 04:49:13 JST Jeff Geerling -
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Jeff Geerling (geerlingguy@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Jun-2023 04:49:12 JST Jeff Geerling I've also donated $1,000 to Debian today, to thank them for providing me with a free, consistent OS to use to test my code and run it in production #OSSThanks
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Jeff Geerling (geerlingguy@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Jun-2023 04:49:13 JST Jeff Geerling And yes, my work is now published as CC BY-SA.
Meaning Red Hat could rebuild it and sell it to their customers if they wanted.
And you know what? I'm okay with that.
But I'd rather you just get a free copy from me directly: https://leanpub.com/ansible-for-devops/c/CTVMPCbEeXd3
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Tobias Hellgren repeated this.
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