Take away that, and no matter how good that book was, sales would be closer to 0.
Actually getting this success is more likely like this:
- spend last 5 years getting followers on Twitter by writing engaging content, reply to others.
- spend also many years in your website and include a mailing list
- email your email list regularly with very interesting things
- spend 1 year to write a book
- send a blast email and tweet about your new book: Most likely people will buy whatever you say at this point because they trust you already.
This is the secret formula, which is hard work and 99.99% can’t do this consistently. (In addition, but not really required, also be smart and bring something new to the table)
From the author:
- I wrote on my blog for nearly a decade before I could launch a book that I sold.
- Announce it, ask for email sign ups if they are interested, keep them in the loop, and then launch. The mailing list had about 1,000 people on it once I launched (about two months from announcing it to doing the early access launch)
- I settled on adapting one of my more popular [blog posts][2] that I keep updated through each version of iOS into a five book series
Actually full details are here
https://www.swiftjectivec.com/the-best-in-class-book-beta-la...