More (self-)publishing thoughts.

I recently got an email asking about self-publishing books,and wanted to summarize my thinking there.Recapping my relevant experience, I’ve written three books:

An Elegant Puzzle was published in 2019 as a manuscript by Stripe Press (e.g. I wrote it and then it was released as is),which has sold about 100,000 copies (96k through the end of 2023, and selling about 4k copies a quarter over past two years), Staff Engineer which I self-published in 2021, which has sold about 70,000 copies (also ...