Conference Driven Publishing
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This document discusses conference driven publishing, where a talk is proposed and given before the associated work is completed. It focuses on the speaker's experience with this process for publishing an unfinished Perl book. While tools like Markdown, Pandoc, Kindlegen and Calibre helped automate conversion to ebook formats, the speaker admits to procrastinating on writing the actual book content. The document encourages others not to procrastinate and to write and self-publish books for Perl that may no longer interest traditional publishers.
Conference Driven Publishing
- 3. A talk about procrastination * Not written while sitting in the previous talk, honest!
- 5. The theory
- 6. 1. Propose talk (about something cool, but unwritten)
- 8. 3. Give talk (to rapturous applause)
- 9. The practice
- 10. 1. Propose talk (about something cool, but unwritten)
- 11. 2. Other (more interesting, but not at all useful) stuff happens
- 12. 3. Give talk about all the stuff that should have happened (and might still happen in the future)
- 14. LPW 2014
- 17. That's TODAY!
- 18. How's it going?
- 29. Input format -> epub -> mobi -> pdf
- 31. Markdown
- 32. Pandoc
- 34. Kindlegen
- 36. Calibre
- 37. Calibre epub pdf
- 40. What have I been doing since then?
- 42. 2. Other (more interesting, but not at all useful) stuff happens
- 47. I built a secret web app for my wife's school
- 48. Which blew up the day it went live
- 49. I prepared for YAPC Europe
- 50. I've been preparing for The LPW
- 52. I'm doing all sorts of things that aren't getting this bloody book written
- 54. The book is not finished
- 55. Realistically, the book will not be finished next year either
- 56. Far too many other interesting projects
- 57. Let me know if you're interested in taking the project on
- 58. I'm happy to help in any way I can
- 59. However
- 61. Markdown + Pandoc + Kindlegen + Calibre
- 63. That would work for you too
- 64. The large publishers have mostly given up on new Perl books
- 65. The large publishers have mostly given up on new Perl books* Although I hear they're looking for authors for Perl 6 books
- 66. That doesn't mean we have to stop writing them
- 67. Amazon makes it easy to publish and sell ebooks
- 68. Amazon makes it easy to publish and sell ebooks * Other ebook marketplaces are available
- 69. Perl book publishing as a cottage industry
- 70. Write the books you want to see
- 71. (Or persuade other people to write them)
- 72. There's no minimum size for ebooks
- 75. Perl Module Reference (two volumes), compiled and edited by Ellen Siever and David Futato
- 77. Show the publishers that people still want Perl books
- 78. That's how 5o Shades of Grey got started
- 81. Write a book