APE is an new eBook by Guy Kawasaki and Shawn Welch about how to publish books in the digital landscape. For those of you who don’t, Guy Kawasaki has written many books about tech and entrepreneurship that are always well done and well received. Shawn Welch is one of us, a mobile app developer.

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So, APE comes out next Monday, December 10th but you can pre-order the book now. I’m about 25% of the way and so far I’m very impressed. I’ve self-published a book myself (pre-Kindle days) and I have published with a traditional publisher and everything that I’ve read in APE so far checks out.

WHO WILL WANT THIS BOOK

This book will give you the direction you need to really self-publish or traditionally publish your book. You’ll be surprised how possible it is to publish an ebook or even a traditional book (which they seem to recommend). They are also very honest in APE when laying out the sometimes grim realities of being an author (both traditional and self). This is both inside baseball and a roadmap to becoming an author. If that’s your dream this book is well worth the $9.99 price tag (even while I’m only 25% through).

Keep your eye on this blog for my full review when I’m done the book. Or pre-order the book now my clicking through this Amazon link.