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Publishing is Dead! Long Live Publishing! - EasyPHPWebsites.com Relaunched

Published on: October 14, 2009 @ 01:30:16 · 0 comments

Publishing is dead! Long live publishing! Such irony certainly seems to be the mantra of today's publishing industry. On the one hand, book publishing is clearly in a state of peril, sickened by the unstoppable influenza known as the World Wide Web.

On the other hand it is this very same influenza which promises to breathe new life into an industry that had for years already been ailing. In fact, some would say the ailment was terminal, given the insanely long book development cycles, draconian publisher-retailer relationships, and poor author compensation, not to mention rather drab marketing efforts.

The Web has the potential to completely turn this system on its head by identifying the consumer and publisher as one in the same. I know this because despite having had a great deal of success with books such as Beginning PHP and MySQL, I knew greater opportunities lay in self-publishing. The end result of this conclusion was Easy PHP Websites with the Zend Framework, which I self-published earlier this year and have simply been astounded by the response.

Given this tailwind, I'm pleased to announce the relaunch of EasyPHPWebsites.com, which I hope will become a clearing house for self-published e-books covering topics such as PHP, MySQL, Web development, and Web design. Rather than operate in the traditional publishing house fashion, we'll work with developers and designers interested in writing relatively brief, 10-100 page e-books, and then intermingle that material with our own in-house videos and other supplements to produce truly useful learning resources.

Royalties

It seems only fair that as the intellectual property holder, the author deserves the lion's share of the revenue. As such, authors selling their books through EasyPHPWebsites.com will receive 70% of the revenue. We'll use the other 30% to run the site, and market the books collectively. With one self-published book already in the system, and another on the way, this is the deal I feel I deserve, and therefore feel you deserve too. Further, payments are made in full on the last day of each month. No reserves, and no annoying quarterly delays.

CakePHP expert Chris Hartjes is already on board with his fantastic book, "Refactoring Legacy Applications with CakePHP". What's holding you back?

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