After only six months, yesterday received a sum of publishing royalties, time is very sudden, very sudden amount.
Song Ge made years ago when an article saying that the book starts with a turnaround after Pro MacBook ( MacBook Pro to start the year, and in the end it delicious? ), So there is little partner asked Song Ge, a book is not It turned a profit?
Honestly, this book now earn, to buy a MacBook Pro is certainly enough, but you say turned a profit, I think there must be some misunderstanding here. Today, I will come and chat with everyone programmers book flow, revenue settlement, and if in the future you would like to one day own books placed in the university library, you should now do.
Requirements
A book of this thing, not in a day. If you have a plan in this regard, so now they began to write blog. Write blog has two benefits:
- Own technology accumulation, the accumulation of writing, writing skills accumulated
- Build a personal brand, was discovered edited Press
Accumulation of technology, say this, you're writing a book, you first have to have the stomach goods, and that this is a long-term process of accumulation. Accumulation of writing skills, this is not to say how to write beautiful, after all, writing technical books not written prose, point to a complex technology, can speak out clear, so that readers understand at a glance, this is the key. I remember I wrote a study notes in 2016, there are readers to comment the following sentence:
The evaluation was very happy to see me, a technical matter, his knowledge is one thing, teach others is another matter. So if you're going in the future can have an own book, then began to write blog it, learn to put a sophisticated knowledge refinement, then put it clear, so that others can understand understand.
Another benefit of a blog is to build a personal brand, make themselves more easily to explore the publishing house editor.
Now publishers are basically self-financing, so the publishing house, he will certainly consider whether a book can be profitable, a book to be profitable, then he Selection of the time, will focus on two aspects :
- Are many years of deep plowing in one technical field, this area has some of their own ideas
- Whether the author comes traffic
These two points, the first point than the second important point. So how deep you press editors know it for many years in a particular area? That depends on the usual daily accumulated, in fact, is your blog. As for the second point, if the author comes traffic, then after the book was published, selling pressure is much smaller, so it would be an advantage now. I write a book in 2018, when I was also crowded public number, there is no traffic, but in the end the book was also published, so the second point is the icing on the cake.
How do I find the Press
Families with plane trees, attracted the Phoenix.
Edit the major publishing houses, like the detective, lurking in the major blog platforms, like CSDN, blog Park, Mu class notes, sf, etc., you write a blog on these platforms, the major publishers will be edited Note that, if you did not contact, probably not ripe, it could be your heat yet to come. But as long as you keep at it, the opportunity is definitely yes, if you do not write, that the chance is almost zero.
In addition to editing Press lurking outside the blog platform, there are some third-party companies are also lurking in the book blog platform, a book I have not worked with the company, do not understand their processes. They are the equivalent of intermediaries, and ultimately co-publishers, but you do not have contact with publishers, and direct them to dock, most of them lurking in the Mu class notes. But I do not recommend and third-party companies, hard six months, in the end turned out to be an intermediary and cooperation.
So the question we need not worry, as long as you insist on writing blog do accumulate, the past will always come.
How to calculate royalties
Royalties this, there are a variety of billing methods, for everyone to see my contract was signed:
You can see, there are a variety of royalties settlement, but in general, most of them choose the first.
In fact, this piece of royalties, I think that the author bargaining space is very limited, most of the publishers to the author's royalties are 8%. Some small partners might find it too low, but the current book market is so. As a reference, the 1991 Beijing Joint Publishing Company signed 15 novels of Jin Yong in the mainland out of copyright 10 years, when the version of the tax rate is 15%.
Now you just write books written on the line, after the finish, the rest of the things are done to the publisher, the three trial three schools, typesetting and printing, logistics, distribution, sales channels, marketing, etc., this takes money, which you do not have control, publishers will do.
So, a book priced at ¥ 70, to the hands of authors is ¥ 5.6, which is not too personal income tax, personal income tax is removed, the figure even lower.
Now technical books, especially some hot technology-related books, selling over a million basically is considered a bestseller, and so doing, it may be a book royalties is a programmer's salary for two months only.
So, if in order to make money, do not open the e-course (eg GitChat the like) as the platform to go on, although this platform should be drawn into, but the author proceeds may also be slightly higher than a book.
How long publishing
Time of writing this is not to say that everyone's efficiency are not the same, I am here to say time after major turnaround. Normally, after the turnaround, to go about the process of publishing house over there about three months, then the book will be on sale, and some special cases, publishers can meet deadlines, this time publishing may also be compressed to two months about.
Press Select
Although many domestic Press, but each publishing house has its own areas of expertise, technical books in general is Tsinghua University Press, Machinery Industry Press, Publishing House of Electronics Industry, Posts and Telecom Press, several, in these publishing houses , Tsinghua university teaching social channels to do well, that he opened up channels of communication between the school and, at Tsinghua agency published a book likely to be selected as college textbooks, other publishers weaker in this regard, of course, this is only relative and words, every publishing house has its own good place, some of the quality of the famous book, on the one hand and the book you know about the other, and marketing efforts related to the publishing house.
General publishing process
General publishing process is, first of all authors to submit topics alone (single topics include author information registration form, the book outline and sample chapter directory, etc.), then press the other side of the flow of the main topics of argumentation -> topic approval -> signed a publishing contract -> own writing -> turnaround -> typography -> three trial three schools -> revision of the manuscript and sent the manuscript -> Publishing .
Having said that, in fact, the first two points are the most important, make two points in front, behind it is very easy thing. Interested partners can look small, not even a book, asked him to be a feeling is good.
summary
Honestly, the point is not to make money writing a book. Only from the money point of view, the net number of lessons may be more cost-effective. But if you want to give your career to leave something, write books significance than the outgoing class. Finally, the proposed small partners before Song Ge look at this article: the best time if you have not written a blog, now that you write a blog
