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Hey everyone, I'm happy to answer any questions about writing, marketing, and selling technical ebooks. I'm sure Sacha would be happy to answer questions as well.

The books being discussed are here:

http://nathanbarry.com/app-design-handbook

http://sachagreif.com/ebook

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I may have missed this somewhere along the conversation thread but would you mind to explain the process of writing the eBooks from publishing perspective?

(i.e.: the tools, the output format, what are the considerations for various devices, etc)

Do you write using a tool that can produce outputs of multiple formats or that can fit to multiple devices?

Thanks for the book and other goodies, Nathan. I've watched all of the videos included in the package and will be actually reading the book soon. I initially skimmed because I wanted to checkout everything else that was included. I'm liking everything so far. Well worth it!

Thanks Nathan, can you point us to a few of the apps you've worked on as a starting point. Thanks

Here are the two big ones that I did for myself. I have a bunch more for clients:

http://thinklegend.com/commit http://onevoiceapp.com

What's great is that both of us have had about the same number of total book sales, but you decided to segment out your product packaging... And as a result have had made twice as much as me.

Really, really nice job Nathan.

Multiple packages is one of the best decisions I made. Though I have to give credit to Chris Guillebeau (http://chrisguillebeau.com) for that one. He told me how important it is.

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