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

[Andy Oram]

I think 125 pages is about as large as the books get during book sprints. Most are even shorter. I estimate that the Collaborative Futures book came out to about 65 pages. Word counts are a better measurement, but I'm using page counts to compare FM books to what you see at commercial booksellers.

I love short books. You can read them in a couple days and grasp everything as a whole. But I'm just wondering whether the overhead of selling a book makes it hard to ship and sell short books.

Andy

----- Original Message -----
From: "adam hyde" <adam at flossmanuals.net>
To: discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
Sent: Wednesday, February 3, 2010 7:05:52 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [FM Discuss] Short books to be published by web developer group

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