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   Julia Evans (b0rk@social.jvns.ca)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 22:18:12 JST Julia Evans

   just got a royalty statement for Your Linux Toolbox and apparently since it was published in 2019 I've made $14,707.16 in royalties, on 6,314 sales. So I guess around $2/sale on average.

   Not mad about it at all (my goal was to learn about how traditional publishing works, and I did!) but those numbers definitely made me want to stick to self publishing, which pays a full-time salary for me, plus two employees part time, with some left over

   (post when it came out: https://jvns.ca/blog/2019/10/21/print-collection-of-my-first-7-zines/)

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     Julia Evans (b0rk@social.jvns.ca)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 22:18:10 JST Julia Evans

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     some of my favourite No Starch Press books:

     * Hacking: The Art of Exploitation (where I learned about ARP!) https://nostarch.com/hacking2.htm
     * the legendary "The Linux Programming Interface" https://nostarch.com/tlpi (where I learned that I'd misunderstood how users and groups work in Linux!)
     * Ruby Under a Microscope (which was very helpful when I was writing a Ruby profiler) https://nostarch.com/rum

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     Julia Evans (b0rk@social.jvns.ca)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 22:18:11 JST Julia Evans

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     also I should say I have a lot of respect for publishers (and No Starch in particular), I just don't think traditional publishing is a great fit for me personally.

     in particular I think there's a lot of value in getting books in bookstores, the editing support you can get, and the opportunity for translations. I've learned a lot from traditionally-published books and I really appreciate everyone who's getting information about computers out there ❤

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