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Why Publish with LeanPub? (Can we *also* use GitBook ?) #64

Closed nelsonic closed 1 year ago

nelsonic commented 7 years ago

We are not writing a book to "make money" by selling it. Our minimum price on LeanPub is set to $0.00 ("Free") i.e. 100% Accessible Technical Learning to everyone and "Risk Free".

If anyone feels like they got value out of reading (and/or watching!) the content and can afford pay a fee to help cover LeanPub's service (processing the PDF/ePub/Kindle versions and updating all existing readers that a new release has been published!) Please go for it, we totally support what LeanPub are doing for sharing knowledge!

Why publish with LeanPub?

Imagine you want to share your (written) content with as many people as possible and in as many formats so it's portable and they can "take it with them anywhere" ...

We want to share our ("_work-in-progress_") draft with "early addopters" who can then give feedback and help improve the content while collaboratively writing it...

Also, we really like the LeanPub manifesto: https://leanpub.com/manifesto

Are there alternatives...?

GitBook: https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook & https://www.gitbook.com/about We've used GitBook a few times and think it's really good! We just prefer the Tools and out-of-the-box analytics available in LeanPub...

Also, "side note": GitBook is "VC-funded" ... VC Funding isn't necessarily a "bad" thing... but it makes me wonder why they are building the product... Is it because they are truly passionate about helping people communicate creative content? or are they "chasing an exit"...?

Do we have to chose between LeanPub and GitBook?

Can we use both services...? What are the costs/benefits negatives/advantages?

nelsonic commented 1 year ago

https://www.gitbook.com/pricing

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GitBook have removed all the useful features from the "personal" plan:

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I guess they achieved their critical mass and need to make money ... to repay "Fly Ventures" ... https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gitbook/company_financials

nelsonic commented 1 year ago

https://leanpub.com/login

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No OAuth login ... šŸ˜• Gotta go hunt for my login details in email. BRB.

nelsonic commented 1 year ago

Ok Managed to login. First item in the Top Nav Menu: "AI" šŸ™„

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nelsonic commented 1 year ago

Using mdBook #91 āœ