<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9c0d02cf-4ad8-451b-b0b6-4cc6b85539a5/45D8DE4D-C011-4797-8BEC-514917C5B181/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://ejohn.org/blog/programming-book-profits/" href="http://ejohn.org/blog/programming-book-profits/" style="font-size: 11px;">ejohn.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ejohn.org/blog/programming-book-profits/"><H2> Programming Book Profits</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ejohn.org/blog/programming-book-profits/"><P>As I begin working on <A href="http://ejohn.org/blog/secrets-table-of-contents/">my second book</A> I've gone back and realized that there's a lot of things that I wish I knew before I started writing <A href="http://jspro.org/">my first book</A> way back in March of 2006. One of the big ones was the volume of book sales and the amount of profit made. Namely: Programming books (by-and-large) are poor sellers, thus, don't expect to be buying a new mansion anytime soon.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ejohn.org/blog/programming-book-profits/"><P>I recently received my quarterly update from Apress for the 3rd quarter of 2007 (the fourth quarter of the book's existence). This was the first quarter in which I actually broke a profit (received money in excess of my advance) so I was quite pleased. Here's a scan for those that are interested.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/45D8DE4D-C011-4797-8BEC-514917C5B181/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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