When's the Rest of Dan's Book Due?

[Dan Shafer]

During MacWorld SF in January -- at which every copy of my book that 
Rev could get to the show was sold by the third day -- Kevin and I 
discussed the publishing plan going forward. I had been studying the 
relatively recent development over at Adam Angst's TidBits operation 
with some interest. (FYI, if you don't know it, they are publishing 
small books focused on a single topic at $5 each and delivering in PDF 
format.)

Kevin and I liked that concept a lot. And as you probably know I had 
already anticipated releasing chapters of my book to those who joined 
RevolutionPros.com at the Leader ($197) level prior to publication and 
free anyway.

So what we've decided to do is to release the chapters of Volumes 2 and 
3 incrementally. As I finish a chapter in draft, it will go to those 
who are Leader level members of my online community. They'll give me 
some feedback (hopefully) and then I'll do a final version and release 
it for sale at something in the $5 per chapter neighborhood. My plan is 
to release a chapter about every week or so, sometimes two in a week.

Then when we have a full book-sized collection of chapters, we'll 
combine them into an immediately available PDF and Kevin will take them 
to print for distribution in hard copy format.

This means you can buy only the chapters in which you are interested, 
when you are interested in them. Whether you buy the full book 
collection or not is up to you (unless, again, you are a Leader member 
in RevolutionPros.com, in which case you get it free anyway).

Furthermore, I'm going to let the community help me decide the *order* 
in which to release the chapters. I'll be posting a complete list of 
the subjects on RevPros some time this weekend and allowing members 
there to vote for which ones they'd like to see sooner than later. I'll 
focus on those that get the biggest response *except* where I know 
something about a future Rev development or a third-party product that 
could change the chapter substantially.

So to recap: chapter-by-chapter electronic releases first to my 
community, then to the community at large; books accumulated when 
critical mass dictates and released first electronically and then in 
print; order of things determined in large part by community voting.

First chapter for Volume 2 -- which will cover CGI development and use 
-- next week.

Don't just sit there, revolt!


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Dan Shafer, Revolutionary
Author of  "Revolution: Software at the Speed of Thought"
http://www.revolutionpros.com for more info
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