Two of my books are now available on Amazon!

The 3rd Edition of An Engineers Guide to Silicon Valley Startups is now available on Amazon.com. Since paper books are now a vanishingly small percentage of my sales, Im outsourcing the production and shipping of paperbacks to Amazon whenever I run out of inventory. This comes at a price: while I was able to store and ship books at a low price of $29.95 per copy (just $5 more than the digital edition), Amazon has public shareholders and thus I have to price the book much higher to have the same profit. Fortunately, the ebook is still at the same price of $24.95.

Coincidentally, Id finally sold out of paperback copies of Startup Engineering Management as well, and thats now also available from Amazon as a paperback. Given that this book started shipping September last year, needless to say it has outperformed my expectations for it!

The last book for which Im still shipping copies is Independent Cycle Touring. I have 5 copies left, and once those are gone, expect the paperback prices to go up substantially, just like it has for my other books.

Im now very close to automating my business completely. Electronic fulfillment is now done by , and integrates nicely with paypal and Google Checkout (the former better than the latter). Thanks to Gayle Laakmann McDowell for pointing me at them.

Read More..

My Books Are Discounted on Amazon

Those of you who visit my books website know that I dont believe in discounting. But Amazon believes otherwise, and for now, print copies of my book are being sold at a discount:

• An Engineers Guide to Silicon Valley Startups ($39.56)
• Startup Engineering Management ($35.96)
• Independent Cycle Touring ($26.01)

Independent Cycle Touring in particular is discounted by a huge amount (35%), and it works particularly well in print format, so if youve been holding off on buying it, this is the cheapest its ever been and probably the cheapest it will ever be. If you have any interest in the topic at all, this is the best book on the topic, and of all of my books is the least likely to be outdated.

Read More..