ConferenceDriven

Publishing

A talk about procrastination

A talk about procrastination

* Not written on the tube journey here, honest!

Conference Driven

Development

The theory

1. Propose talk(about something cool, but unwritten)

2. Stuff happens

3. Give talk(to rapturous applause)

The practice

1. Propose talk(about something cool, but unwritten)

2. Other (more interesting, but not at all useful) stuff happens

3. Give talk about all the stuff that

should have happened (and

might still happen in the future)

Conference Driven

Publishing

LPW 2014

12th Dec

How's it going?

Not very well

What have I done?

Process is important

Good tools are important

Input format-> epub-> mobi-> pdf

Markdown

Pandoc

PandocMarkdown epub→

Kindlegen

Kindlegenepub mobi→

Calibre

Calibreepub pdf→

That all happenedmonths ago

What haveI been doingsince then?

2. Other (more interesting, but not at all useful) stuff happens

I'm building a secret web app for my wife's

school

I'm preparing for

YAPC Europe

I'm doing all sorts of things that aren't getting this bloody book

written

I'm procrastinating

All is not lost

I still havefour months

Don't give upon me yet

See meat the LPW

However

Rememberthat toolchainI developed?

Markdown+ Pandoc

+ Kindlegen+ Calibre

That would work for you too

The large publishers have mostly given up on new Perl

books

That doesn't mean we have to stop writing them

Amazon makes it easy to publish and sell ebooks

Amazon makes it easy to publish and sell ebooks

* Other ebook marketplaces are available

Perl book publishing as a cottage industry

Write the books you want to see

(Or persuade other people to write them)

Plack Handbookhttp://handbook.plackperl.org/

There's no minimum sizefor ebooks

“Perl Module Reference (two volumes),

compiled and editedby Ellen Siever and

David Futato”

Show the publishers that people still want

Perl books

That's how “5o Shades of Grey”

got started

Don't procastinate

Write a book

Next updatein Granada

Dave Cross@davorg

dave@perlhacks.com