Category Archives: Self Publishing

Five Questions to Answer When Self-Publishing a Technical Book

Posted on August 2, 2012 by

We asked Gayle Laakmann McDowell, author of Cracking the Coding Interview, a bestselling book for technical interview preparation, for some advice for technical self publishers. Here she outlines the five essential questions one needs to consider when self publishing a technical … Continue reading →

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[Author Interview] Gayle Laakmann McDowell, author of Cracking the Coding Interview

Posted on July 24, 2012 by

Gayle Laakmann McDowell is the author of Cracking the Coding Interview, a featured book in our Tech Publishing Festival. She used Pothi.com to bring out an Indian edition of her book which is available for sale on Pothi.com, Flipkart, IndiaPlaza … Continue reading →

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Technical Books, Self Publishing and Print-on-Demand

Posted on July 9, 2012 by

July 2012 is the Tech Publishing Festival at Pothi.com. You might be wondering why this special attention to tech publishing? There is a reason – actually multiple reasons. One of them we will explore in this blog post. Increasing pace of technology … Continue reading →

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Copyright O’ Copyright! (Part II)

Posted on March 9, 2010 by

You may want to read the first part on this topic before reading this one: Copyright O’ Copyright (Part I) In the previous post, we have seen what copyright and copyright law mean to an author. Now let us look … Continue reading →

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Copyright O’ Copyright! (Part I)

Posted on March 8, 2010 by

I consider myself fairly good with spotting patterns and categorizing things. But the number of angles from which people can get confused about the copyrights confounds me. In general, it is not possible to give a quick, short, satisfying answer … Continue reading →

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The much hyped ISBN

Posted on January 20, 2010 by

We often get queries which desperately ask whether we can assign ISBN to their books. Some others almost seem to say that its their dream to publish their book with an ISBN. We have not quite been able to figure … Continue reading →

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[Self Publishing Guide] Self Publishing Your Book – Step 5: Marketing

Posted on January 8, 2010 by

This post is an excerpt from our Self Publishing Guide for Indian Market. If you have not, you may want to read the following post in this series before starting on this one What is publishing? What is self-publishing? Self … Continue reading →

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[Self Publishing Guide] Self Publishing Your Book – Step 4: Distribution

Posted on January 7, 2010 by

This post is an excerpt from our Self Publishing Guide for Indian Market. If you have not, you may want to read the following post in this series before starting on this one What is publishing? What is self-publishing? Self … Continue reading →

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[Self Publishing Guide] Self Publishing your Book – Step 3: Printing

Posted on December 31, 2009 by

This post is an excerpt from our Self Publishing Guide for Indian Market. If you have not, you may want to read the following post in this series before starting on this one What is publishing? What is self-publishing? Self … Continue reading →

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Designing Cover and Understanding Images

Posted on December 30, 2009 by

The most frequent reason why book submissions do not go through in one go at Pothi.com is because cover is not submitted in a print ready format. The bad news is that it needs some technical understanding to get your … Continue reading →

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