PBP Book

[grounded]

lots of pictures, no big words, mulitable examples, low pin count flash chips (12f675, 16f676),
Bi-Direction serial communication (may something like the LanC protocol), RF,Data,
and most important "data sheets for dummies"
just to give you a few ideals

when and were do I send my money.
grounded

[ruijc]

Hi Bruce,

I'm very interested in your book also.

when and were do I send my money.

and it make's 2

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[O2_Guy]

Count me in too! Please keep it to PBP and PBPL. Most books just repeat everything in PB and PBP, so when you're done you can only flash LED's. The formats used for the advanced BS2 books are good, too. Timers and more advanced topics especially the internal register settings, and direct reference to the datasheet sections, comparators Vref and the like. Goog luck with the project.

[dhouston]

Bruce,

I guess I missed this thread when it started. And I've just scanned it quickly so I apologize if I am restating something already suggested.

I find the PBP manual fairly complete except for its dearth of examples. More detailed examples would eliminate a lot of questions or, at the very least, justify a RTFM response.

As for whether it should be bound or HTML of PDF, it's simple to offer both bound and PDF through something like http://www.lulu.com who do a really high quality one-off bound book at reasonable prices and with little upfront cost to the author.

I have this book http://www.pb-beginners.co.uk/ and I'm sure its author would answer your questions about the self publishing process.

[Bruce]

Thanks Dave. Lulu looks like one way to go for the self-publishing end. I do plan to offer the book on CD as well - in .html format. this would allow people to download new updates, projects & new code examples.

[Luciano]

Hi Bruce,

Why don't you pre-sell your book to your readers before it goes to print?

1. Finish your book.
2. Get an estimate for the book printing job.
3. Put a sample chapter on your web site and do some advertisement for your book.
4. Pre-sell your book (paper version only).
5. When the presell covers the printing cost (150%), go to print with your book.
6. Send an-email to your readers with a picture of the book and ask for the money.
7. Cash the money and send the book to your readers. (Paper version only).
8. Repeat steps 4 to 7 for book reprint.
9. When no more reprint, sell your book as e-book from your web site.
10. Give a free e-book to all the readers who have purchased the paper version of the book.

In case 5 is not achieved, then you can sell your book as e-book and avoid financial loss.

* * *

I am sure your book will be a must-read for PicBasic developers.

I wish you great success with this project!

Best regards,

Luciano

[Archangel]

I just bought a book by a well known PIC author, which was self published. In my opinion self published work suffers 1 serious drawback, and that is, no objective but nasty fanny flogging editor to keep you on the straight and narrow. The book I bought is about 200 pages of near nothing. The first 1/2 detailed how to install the MPLAB suite , the second half had more whitespace than anything else. The margins, headers and footers are huge. The book required several chapters to blink an LED, and featured about 8 near full page pictures of the same PICKIT demo board. That said, the book was printed in USA, on a very nice high quality white paper. Aside from endless repeats of the little code he actually provided,(space filler?), I found this book to be useful as a primmer, it should have either been trimmed to about 50 pages or printed in enormus type to fill the 200 pages.
Bruce, your website has 10 times the code, than any 5 books I have seen, and your code is always well written, I hope you will publish the book, I will buy it, just avoid the pitfalls I listed above and you WILL have a winner.