conference driven publishing
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ConferenceDriven
Publishing
A talk about procrastination
A talk about procrastination
* Not written while sitting in the previous talk, honest!
Conference Driven
Development
The theory
1. Propose talk(about something cool, but unwritten)
2. Stuff happens
3. Give talk(to rapturous applause)
The practice
1. Propose talk(about something cool, but unwritten)
2. Other (more interesting, but not at all useful) stuff happens
3. Give talk about all the stuff that
should have happened (and
might still happen in the future)
Conference Driven
Publishing
LPW 2014
That's TODAY!
How's it going?
It's not finished
What have I done?
Process is important
Good tools are important
Input format-> epub-> mobi-> pdf
Markdown
Pandoc
PandocMarkdown epub→
Kindlegen
Kindlegenepub mobi→
Calibre
Calibreepub pdf→
That all happenedmonths ago
What haveI been doingsince then?
2. Other (more interesting, but not at all useful) stuff happens
I built a secret web app for my wife's school
Which blew up the day it went
live
I prepared forYAPC Europe
I've been preparing for
The LPW
I'm doing all sorts of things that aren't getting this bloody book
written
I'm procrastinating
The book isnot finished
Realistically,the book willnot be finishednext year either
Far too many other interesting
projects
Let me know if you're interested in taking the project on
I'm happy to help in any way
I can
However
Rememberthat toolchainI developed?
Markdown+ Pandoc
+ Kindlegen+ Calibre
That would work for you too
The large publishers have mostly given up on new Perl
books
The large publishers have mostly given up on new Perl
books* Although I hear they're looking for authors for Perl 6 books
That doesn't mean we have to stop writing them
Amazon makes it easy to publish and sell ebooks
Amazon makes it easy to publish and sell ebooks
* Other ebook marketplaces are available
Perl book publishing as a cottage industry
Write the books you want to see
(Or persuade other people to write them)
There's no minimum sizefor ebooks
Plack Handbookhttp://handbook.plackperl.org/
“Perl Module Reference (two volumes),
compiled and editedby Ellen Siever and
David Futato”
Show the publishers that people still want
Perl books
That's how “5o Shades of Grey”
got started
Don't procastinate
Write a book
