Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
Jaron Lanier
4.5 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Articulating Design Decisions: Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience
Tom Greever
4.7 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Python for Finance: Mastering Data-Driven Finance
Yves Hilpisch
4.6 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Uncanny Valley: A Memoir
Anna Wiener
4 on Amazon
2 HN comments
The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics
Ben Buchanan
4.5 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Linux Pocket Guide: Essential Commands
Daniel J. Barrett
4.7 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Accounting For Dummies
John A. Tracy
4.4 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion
Gary Vaynerchuk and HarperAudio
4.6 on Amazon
2 HN comments
The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Martin Gurri
4.5 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & flow
Dominica Degrandis, Erin Bennett, et al.
4.6 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Zero Trust Networks: Building Secure Systems in Untrusted Networks
Evan Gilman and Doug Barth
4.7 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen
Donald Miller and HarperCollins Leadership
4.7 on Amazon
1 HN comments
Marketing Made Simple: A Step-by-Step StoryBrand Guide for Any Business
Donald Miller, Dr. J.J. Peterson, et al.
4.8 on Amazon
1 HN comments
Deep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)
Ian Goodfellow , Yoshua Bengio , et al.
4.4 on Amazon
1 HN comments
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter)
Steve Krug
4.6 on Amazon
1 HN comments
kpwagneronMay 10, 2021
I own a number of books (~200) and have probably owned x4 that total in my lifetime. Maybe 1/3 of those I paid full price for new. The rest I sourced either cheap on Ebay or about free from second-hand stores. I've spent probably less than $4,000 total on books, not counting textbooks, while being in the minority of people who buy and read books.
I don't really know where I'm going with this, but the question that comes to mind is something like this: how many people like me does it take to support one professional writer?
Non-fiction writers are way more likely to have other income sources than fiction writers. For example, I'm reading Marketing Made Simple (Donald Miller), which was free with Amazon Prime. I'm quite sure Donald Miller and his company are not sweating how much money they get from a Prime reader: getting anyone to read their book strengthens their overall sales funnel.