Ask HN: Self publishing book vs. writing a blog series

Start with the blog, see how people react, incorporate feedback and them consolidate your blog posts into a book.

It's probably worth converting that book into a blog series, at least when starting off. That way you'll get a bit of an idea about whether people like the idea/content and have the opportunity to build up an audience/fanbase over time, which can then be used to market the actual book at a later stage.

Starting out with a book seems like it'd just make things more complicated, since nobody knows who you are and you'd be stuck trying to sell people on a paid product they have no incentive to buy.

I guess I will publish a book for monetization. I will select a few chapters to post on my blog.

check https://twitter.com/dvassallo

He self published a book recently.