Why Every Entrepreneur Should Self-Publish a Book

http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/28/why-every-entrepreneur-should-self-publish-a-book/?grcc=88888Z0

by coolrhymes • 14 years ago

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chrisacky• 14 years ago

I knew this would be an article by Altucher by looking at his title. He's a great writer too, always great reads.

handzhiev• 14 years ago

+1! And I think I already read that post. Altucher is one of the most down-to-earth and at the same time inspiring bloggers.

brador• 14 years ago

I agree, but what makes his writing so good? What's his secret sauce that makes it so readable?

bennesvig2• 14 years ago

He bleeds. He's not afraid to be brutally honest, which very few people do and makes for very entertaining writing.

ColinWright3• 14 years ago

As a contrary opinion, I nearly didn't read this exactly because it's by Altucher. I almost always get to the end of something he's written and think - well, there's 5 minutes of my life I'll never see again, and which gave me absolutely nothing.

This, however, actually has useful, actionable information. It's the first thing I've (knowingly) read by him that was worth the time it took.

batista2• 14 years ago

there's 5 minutes of my life I'll never see again, and which gave me absolutely nothing.

This reminds me of the following story: Euclid of Alexandria, when asked by one of his students of what use was the study of geometry, asked his slave to give the student a threepence, "since he must always make gain of what he learns".

motxilo• 14 years ago

Related to this, what are good book authoring tools? Or at least the ones you use for writing stuff that can be exported to pdf, html or printed out. I'm talking things in the line of Tex, Docbook, etc.

bennesvig2• 14 years ago

I love Scrivener. You can export to mobi, epub, PDF, Doc, and a bunch of other formats.

lignuist• 14 years ago

Lyx is great for creating beautiful TeX documents. http://www.lyx.org/

thinkcomp• 14 years ago

Adobe InDesign is pretty solid for any kind of desktop publishing.

rpwilcox• 14 years ago

Another vote for Scivener here, BUT you might be interested in git-scribe also (https://github.com/schacon/git-scribe)

kevinpet• 14 years ago

Missing from this article: you have something worthwhile to say. Honestly, I don't think I have anything to justify a book length treatment at this time. Okay, I'm not an entrepreneur, just an engineer at a startup, but I don't see the founders having all that much time to be sitting around writing books either.

LearnYouALisp• 14 years ago

Oh, if editors and publishers would apply this to submissions more often!

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