How did you make $ 15,000 in electronic books? A personal experience story

ByAudiovisualjunkie

Not only the abstract concept of the program but also a concise, easy-to-understand explanation of Ruby, and a practical e-book that also describes the way of thinking as a programmerClean Ruby"The author Jim Gay was able to earn $ 15,000 (about 1.2 million yen) in elec- tronics publication for as long as six months, but how the integral e-books were released There, what kind of change did Jim Gay's life have after that? That's why Jim Gay looks back on publishing e-books as "$ 15,000 in Income From an eBook, How I Did It"is.

$ 15,000 in Income From an eBook, How I Did It - Saturn Flyer with Jim Gay
http://www.saturnflyer.com/blog/jim/2012/09/19/15000-in-income-from-an-ebook-how-i-did-it/

The grand plan was a mistake

ByAndres.thor

Jim Gay said that he had thought that "Because there is already an idea, I need help to carry it out because I already have an idea" when I decided to make some product by myself and earn money. So, there are also recommendations from acquaintances, "Let's give a lecture on" How to make products by making your own products "rather than working for money"30 × 500I decided to participate in a seminar called. At the beginning of the seminar, he thought about the contents of the product (= book) with little thought, and I thought that it is necessary to consider only the point of "how to sell books".

However, at the seminar he first learned that "my idea was not good at all and I wasted effort and time."

According to Jim Gay, "I was trying to find what people wanted in the wrong place, it was like building a store in the middle of a place I can not find anywhere, I thought that I chose the road along, but for the first time after learning the course I learned how to hear the sound when approaching the railroad and coming near. " I learned that marketing was not done at all.

◆ How did you choose the product

ByNathan Penlington

Jim Gay had the problem of having already received money from some people, and had to rethink the idea of ​​the product again. But,DCIIt seems that I could not concentrate at all because of the new way of thinking. According to him DCI is a new, exciting programming thinking. As I read about something about DCI, I made notes, tried writing code and trying to apply what I learned from my day-to-day work to it, while I was using it for seminars, it was gone "I can not stop!" It seems to have thought. I have to figure out the idea of ​​the book, but I can not concentrate at all. So I decided to take DCI itself into books.

Jim Gay sometimes wrote a blog, but DCI's idea was important and powerful, so I decided to post it on my blog. It is possible that someone wrote about it on the blog. And at that time, it seems that I added a mail form that I had never had before. Although he rarely got a comment on the blog, after several hours since posting the article, 12 mails have been delivered to the mail form, regardless of the comment field being zero.

"What a thing!"

He noticed at that time that people sent e-mails before comments. I planned to do research on my own, but in reality I started running without customer research at all and realized that by the trivial thing called blog's mail form. "I was ignorant too much," he says.

Have the ears to hear ◆

ByNiclindh

Also, Jim GayLean ArchitectureYaClean CodeI got a wonderful inspiration from a book such as. There is written about the programmer's way of thinking, not the self-satisfying explanation of the code and the pattern is written, but rather the programmers tell me that they are going to pace down and do things appropriately is.

Apart from some people who strongly desire to be called "developers", he thinks that people called programmers really enjoy the technical matter themselves. But many people do not do technical things because they are technological. They read, write and study for a wonderful goal. This is what Cleim Ruby Jim Gay wrote about. Of course, DCI is written, but Clean Ruby is not a book about DCI. It is a book that will help people influence their work by managing their efforts to develop. Despite being a book about programming, he wrote a book on thinking.

◆ Encouragement and support

ByTinou bao

Jim Gay is a computer science researcher in writing a bookJim CoplienAnd also researchers at Oslo UniversityTrygve ReenskaugI was able to learn the concept of programming from Mr. They sometimes were critical as occasionally, sometimes cooperatively assisted him and many other researchers helped me. Also, those who are trying to make their own products that I met at a seminar of 30 x 500 helped him focus on making books. Because there were people who support me in various situations, he was able to make this informative book that will sell for a long time.

◆ Revenue

ByJon.satrom

I heard that he was nervous before selling the book because he had never written a book so far, but booking selling was more than his expectation. And as also shown in the graph below, on the first day of sale, sales exceeded 3000 dollars (240,000 yen) greatly.


His books were accepted by a lot of people, developers reviewed the application and made it possible to think more about the value of their work in real business. He gathered comments and related information on the book, so that he forgot the words of feedback and encouragement. Clean Ruby is an unfinished book, because he is going to write further.

Within six months or so, the revenue became as follows.


He wishes to return the study back to the book and customers also want it. But you can go back to consultancy. Now that many people know that he knows how to make software on big systems and can teach others. The experience that I was able to sell the product rather than working for money has greatly changed his life.

According to Jim Gay, the most wonderful thing about writing this book is that individuals and small businesses that can not afford a consult, even if they have anything to charge for an hour work, It is said that it is possible to learn.