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Reviewed a technical book (and the follow up video course).

I then started self-publishing programming ebooks. It's been more than 4 years now and total earnings has crossed $10,000.

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How long are your ebooks? Do you cover a language end to end or only specific aspects of it?

I'd like to learn more about your process how can I get in touch with you?

Around 100 pages. I pick a short topic like regular expressions and CLI tools like grep/sed/awk. For such topics, I start from the basics and go till intermediate-advanced levels. I use plenty of examples and exercises.

I've written a few blog posts about my experiences here: https://learnbyexample.github.io/tags/career/

Hi! Can you briefly explain the process? I'm linux and k8s admin and thinking about writing a book.

Thanks a lot!

I mostly focus on a short topic. For example, regular expressions, grep/sed/awk, etc. I prefer having plenty of examples and exercises while learning, so that's what I do while writing the books as well.

For producing the ebook, I use pandoc (https://learnbyexample.github.io/customizing-pandoc/) to convert from markdown to pdf/epub versions. I also use mdbook to create web versions.

I've also collected a few blog posts about book writing from other authors here: https://learnbyexample.github.io/my-book-writing-experience/...

Thanks for the reply!

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