Why not start an indie tech book publisher?

I’ve spent a fair amount of time over the last year thinking about the economics of book publishing now that I have sales trajectories on two book and have gotten to see a bit of the work behind Alex Xu’s System Design Interview – An insider’s guide, swyx’s The Coding Career Handbook, and Gergely Orosz’s Building Mobile Apps at Scale and The Tech Resume Inside Out. By now, I’ve spent enough time thinking about it that I wanted to run through the numbers once so that I can stop thinking about it....