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no easy way to give you money #172

Closed darinmcgill closed 10 years ago

darinmcgill commented 10 years ago

I don't pay for movies because I can't get them for free online, I pay for them because it's the right thing to do. Similarly, I very much appreciate you posting the complete text of your book online but feel like you should still have a "buy now" button or "become a registered supporter" button. And don't leave an empty box with a "donate what you feel like" option. Have some balls and pick a number of how much you think people should be paying you for being able to read your book. (I'm thinking $10 or $20) Still worth keeping it online but for those of us who can afford it we need to be giving you something.

Oh, and your book is awesome, but you (should) already know that.

munificent commented 10 years ago

Haha, this is the absolute best bug report ever.

I'm working on the eBook and print versions right now. When those are ready, readers will be able to pay for those. Until then, you'll have to suffer without being able to throw money at me. :)

waferbaby commented 10 years ago

(Pretend this is me liking this whole thing in an Internet-thumbs-up-faving-liking-way).

darinmcgill commented 10 years ago

Kudos. For the sake of understanding where your readers are coming from, I got to your book from a hacker's news post that linked to your blog post "How I wrote Game Programming Patterns". From there I had to do a bit of searching to find the actual book but came up with it somehow.

From a marketing perspective I'd recommend adding to the bottom of all your posts links to your book and a table of contents of your other blog entries. "How I wrote" was one of the best articles I've read all year. Although I didn't mind doing some digging to find more of your stuff, I think that you should reward readers who get to the end of a post with a way to find more.

Any other posts on writing tips would be appreciated btw, as I'd like to get started (and finished) writing a book or two myself.

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evilsocket commented 10 years ago

:+1: totally agree

munificent commented 10 years ago

From a marketing perspective I'd recommend adding to the bottom of all your posts links to your book and a table of contents of your other blog entries.

I added a more prominent link to the top of the post. I agree the navigation on my blog leaves a bit to be desired.