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>but the publisher pulled out

Can you share why? Did they think the topic was niche?

Looks like it.

From htmx’s twitter:

> the book was initially in contract w/ a tech publisher, but was dropped because they didn't feel there was a big enough market

yep: not enough of a market, which is probably true at this point

we were straining to make the book fit into what the publisher wanted, so this gives us a good opportunity to write the book that we want