Perl publishing and attracting new developers

[Kieren Diment]

$20-30 per hour that should say.  Why don't mailing lists have an edit
button?


On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Kieren Diment <diment at gmail.com> wrote:

> think about $20-30 and at least one day out of your life per week for 6
> months to work on the book.  It's not lucrative, but I found the whole
> experience fun and rewarding.  Except for the day when I wrote around 4000
> words and felt quite mentally unstable at the end.  The following day I
> threw at least 3/4s of that work out.
>
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> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Kieren Diment <diment at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> think about $6k for having at least one day of your life per week full
>> time for six months.
>>
>> On 19/09/2013, at 10:01 PM, Peter Corlett <abuse at cabal.org.uk> wrote:
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>> On 19 Sep 2013, at 12:21, Chris Jack <chris_jack at msn.com> wrote:
>> [...]
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>> - it would be more apparent how little money is sometimes available for
>> the
>> effort of writing a book
>>
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>> I don't know the exact figures, but it's roughly a four figure sum for a
>> reasonably successful Perl book. And given that one is having to resort to
>> Kickstarter because no publisher will touch it does not bode well.
>>
>> To write such a book involves many months of work. In comparison,
>> somebody skilled enough to write said book could also go contracting and
>> make the same amount of money in a few weeks. It's a fair comparison, since
>> writing books is also effectively contracting.
>>
>> I would very much like such a Kickstarter to be a success, but
>> realistically it is likely to tank.
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