Self publishing is easier than ever. But even shitty publishers like Packt still have a huge networking/marketing machine. My skillset does not include marketing, or checking whether a target audience exists.
If I want to write for just myself, I can just journal or blog. A book is a significant undertaking, writing one which no one reads would just be depressing.
someone should build a cooperative/self serve after stripe press books
The problem with marketing just anything is that if you market too many things that people don't actually want, your brand starts to lose its power as people stop trusting that what you're advertising is something they might want.
Indeed curation remains the important function of any publication/brand/company
the gist of the idea: >
yeah idk but something like curation is done by commitee (to try and maintain a minimum of quality overall)
Cooperative/self-serve? What does that mean?
yeah idk but something like curation is done by commitee (to try and maintain a minimum of quality overall) but as an author is super easy to appply/get editors/feedback/publish
(that’d be the self-serve part i guess)
tbh hardest is still marketing. good books are not only text but also covers and the like
> yeah idk but something like curation is done by commitee (to try and maintain a minimum of quality overall) but as an author is super easy to appply/get editors/feedback/publish
This is very much what pragprog.com is meant to be. I'm only on the volunteer curation committee so have less insight into the feedback cycle for authors post-acceptance, but every author who's published on the platform I've talked to has been pretty positive about the experience.
The OP didn't go into nearly as many (indeed, any) details as to why their second publishing attempt with them in particular did not work out, I'd be curious to learn more.
So basically a business, where day to day is run by people focused on the day to day and everyone else can pick and choose to use their stuff with low friction, not having to focus on the day to day
The hardest part still being networking into others lives to distribute the message
You just re-invented our economy