In spare minutes, I’ve been expanding my direct print sale operation. You can now get all of these in my bookstore. If you pay for the print book, you get the ebook free.
I have other books in the system, but am waiting for the print proofs to arrive. They come from a new printer (BookVault). Before I tell you to buy a book, I need to know that BV can produce the book as intended. They’re competent, but everyone handles PDFs slightly different. I’ve caught a couple weird color things and a skewed margin. So, despite my efforts to trim down in-house stock, I’m accumulating books. Dammit.
The thing I’m super excited about? Bundles.
It’s about eight years too late, but I now sell the FreeBSD Storage bundle in print. If you buy it from me, I can afford to knock 20% off. Even with shipping, that makes it a better deal for you than buying from Amazon.
My hope is that the kind of people who want to, for example, run their own mail servers will also want to buy directly from the author. That would help make up for the current, unforced and wholly unnecessary, economic implosion in the US.
Next up? The rest of the tech books. Discounted Cross-Platform Unix Mastery and Total Mastery bundles. Then all the fiction and finally, The Full Michael in print.
Updates will follow as more titles appear.
Wow, ed mastery! That is some more-obscure-than-O’Reilly stuff. (Yeah, I know, most of that would also be useful to vi users.) Anyhow, impressive library.