[FM Discuss] Short books to be published by web developer group

[adam hyde]

are books produced by week long sprints so short? CiviCRM (produced in 5
days), for example, is about 71,000 words...harry potters first book
(which took 5 years to write) is about 76,000 ;)

adam




On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 10:43 -0500, Andy Oram wrote:
> I'm posting this because it's a rare attempt to commercialize short books--books that are even shorter than those typically produced by a week-long book sprint:
> 
> http://www.happycog.com/publish/abookapart/
> 
> I doubt that they can profitably publish such short books, but it's worth watching because it may be an indication of whether short books are popular, useful, and financially viable. The writing/production cycle isn't described.
> 
> Andy
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