{"id":4392,"date":"2013-03-18T00:01:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T07:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=4392"},"modified":"2013-03-17T10:26:34","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T17:26:34","slug":"my-sad-line-of-windows-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=4392","title":{"rendered":"My Sad Line of Windows Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Windows I gave up writing Windows books a long time ago. It’s not that I wanted to.
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\nMy Dan Gookin Teaches<\/em> book series was really popular. Both Dan Gookin Teaches Windows 98<\/em> and Dan Gookin Teaches Windows ME<\/em> sold quite well. They were very popular! I wanted them to go on forever!<\/p>\n

But, like many publishing industry tragedies, the title wasn’t updated to Windows XP — one of the most popular versions of Windows ever. The series died a disappointing death. Despite that, I still get requests from readers, asking about a new edition. Not gonna happen.<\/p>\n

I did, however, write a Windows XP title. It was given the worst name of any of my computer books ever: Naked Windows XP<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Huh?<\/p>\n

The book was solid, but the stupid title and dumb cartoon cover sank the thing.<\/p>\n

The Windows Vista title I wrote was suposed to be something completely new; it was an encyclopedia of everything you could do in Windows. I wanted to call it Windows Vista: Where the Bodies are Buried<\/em>. The publisher called it Find Gold in Windows Vista<\/em>. Lame.<\/p>\n

Windows 7? I didn’t even bother. Repeated requests from readers of my earlier Dan Gookin Teaches<\/em> series didn’t help convince any publisher. Nothing happened. No Windows 7 titles from me.<\/p>\n

For Windows 8, which I’ve roundly disparaged on this blog, I decided to self-publish.<\/p>\n

From experience, I knew that no publisher would be interested in me writing a Windows book. A few popular Windows titles are out there, and they push any competition off the shelf. So my goal was to self-publish a book, making it about 100 pages or so and keeping it to some handy how-to tips and tricks.<\/p>\n

The book is titled Windows 8 Sucks<\/em>, because Windows 8 does. It’s self-published on Amazon for Kindle, but also for the Kindle app you can find on most mobile gizmos.<\/p>\n

I’ve not really pushed the book that well; I’m a writer not a marketing person. Still, it’s managed to sell a handful of copies. Even my publisher purchased one. According to her, “It’s pretty good!” She’s surprised that the title hasn’t moved.<\/p>\n

So I’m trying to push the title, hence this blog post!<\/p>\n

I’ve put the book on sale. It was originally $6.99. Now — only for you — it’s $2.99.<\/p>\n

Why the change in price? I DON’T KNOW! I don’t do this marketing thing or this pricing thing very well. What’s the book worth? Well, if it were a 100 page print book, you’d probably pay $6.99 for it. That was my thought. Was I wrong? How would I know?<\/p>\n

Bottom line: Windows 8 Sucks<\/em> is a good title with solid information and plenty of fun. I would urge you to check it out, which is apparently the best marketing message I can muster. Well, that and, “Please don’t let this be yet another in a dismal line of Windows titles I’ve written that don’t sell.”<\/p>\n

Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Please don’t let my latest book, Windows 8 Sucks<\/em>, be yet another in a dismal line of Windows titles I’ve written that don’t sell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-4392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","tag-windows-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4392"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4415,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392\/revisions\/4415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}