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eBooks Update – Now Available In More Stores And Countries!

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Jul 282011

Yep. Due to the continued success of my books after the price increase, I’ve made them available at more places. You can now preview and purchase Hacks, Distributed Compilers, and Live For Free at new store locations! The permalink pages for each have been updated with all the new info! This will also put these titles on eReaders and in stores all over the world in many new markets. These will all trickle out over the next few weeks, so stay tuned! A few highlights:

You can now preview, purchase, and rent my books from Google Books in all territories (NO DRM, full copy-paste support).
Sony eBook Store
Kobo Store
Android Market
Apple and Apple App Store
Diesel eBook Store
Scrollmotion eBook Store
Smashwords eBook Store

Build Your Own Distributed Cluster Now Available to Purchase Online

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Mar 092011

My second eBook, Build Your Own Distributed Compilation Cluster – A Practical Walkthrough is now available for purchase online. This 60+ page tutorial walks one through the creation of a fully distributed compilation system. With practical advice and heaps of source and script examples, you can pick up this helpful eBook at Amazon and Barnes and Nobles sites and be using your own custom distributed compilation system within hours. I’ll be updating the permalink page (top-right on my WordPress theme) with shopping links once the shopping pages go live. While I remain hard at work at Discursive Labs and on a number of other projects, my next eBook project will most likely be a large collection of my hacks and this eBook should keep your e-reader in use till then.

This is the cover image for my second eBook, Build Your Own Compilation Cluster

Live For Free Now Available To Purchase Online

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Mar 092011

As some of you have pointed out to me, the links to the free review copy of my eBook “Life For Free – The Chronicles of a Nerd Saving For A Startup” have gone down. Due to an increase in demand I’m putting Live For Free back into print and it’ll be available online at Amazon and Barnes and Nobles stores initially, with more stores to follow if things go well. If any of you have purchased it, please do leave an honest review and rating. It’s invaluable for me to know how my books are being accepted as well as for others to know what they are getting into. I’ll update the LFF permalink (top-right corner in my WordPress theme) to contain purchase links to various bookstores as it comes up. I’ve decided to price it at 99c, hoping that it’ll be an easy impulse purchase from your Kindle or Nook.

While I remain hard at work at Discursive Labs during my 9-5 (ok maybe closer to 7-7), I have also been working on a follow-up book to LFF in my spare time. It’s a bit of a departure, dealing with the consequences of financial independence and a post-exit mindset. I’m thinking of calling it “The Post-Exit Primer, How to Live Like You’re The CEO Today”. Kind of a wordy title, and like LFF it’ll probably change a few times. Also, I’ve been thinking about collecting some of my technical writing and putting that into its own eBook. Let me know your feelings on that, and thanks for your continued support.

Update – Barnes and Nobles product page has gone live already

This is the title page and cover for my eBook Live For Free

How I Saved For My Startup – Free E-book Released

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Nov 082010

Ideas are wonderful things. They can inspire us to work harder, dream harder, live harder. The ideas we have, these are free. Servers cost money. Health insurance costs money. Employees, computers, conference rooms, software licenses, these things cost money. Big time. So when you’re looking to nurture an idea into a business, these costs can seem daunting. For those not interested in (or who have no opportunity for) traditional funding methods such as angel investing and bank loans, how do you actually accumulate the funds necessary to really free your idea? This is the question I asked myself in late 2008. Flash forward to 2010. I’m the CEO of a (becoming successful) startup, completely bootstrapped. How did I go from cubicle worker (and part time hacker) to CEO (and full time hacker)?

front cover

Read on for the exciting preamble and the free E-book download of “Live for Free – The Chronicles of a Nerd Saving for a Startup”