Show HN: Sublime Text Book
Let's talk about the price of the e-book, $36.<p>For a standard nonfiction e-book, that price is fairly high, but when it comes to software/programming books, you expect it to be a bit higher than average.<p>I took a look at some O'Reilly titles around the same price point, and specifically at books that are similar to this, where you're really learning about how to make use of a particular software program's features, rather than how to write in a particular programming language or understand a particular abstract concept or niche in software development.<p>"Textmate: Power Editing for the Mac" is 200 pages, $30 for a print edition.<p>"Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought" is 346 pages, $30 for a print edition.<p>"Learning GNU Emacs: A Guide to Unix Text Processing" is 536 pages, $36 for an e-book.<p>It seems to be generally the case, and these examples bear it out, that e-books are priced lower than physical copies, and shorter books are priced lower than longer books.  I would add that niche books (where the information is hard to find elsewhere) also command a premium.<p>Based on that, I would suggest that this Sublime Text book should probably be priced a bit lower.  It's an e-book, it's only 220 pages, and though it's nice to have all of the information conveniently packaged in one place, it seems like the majority of the book talks about stuff you can easily Google about (and typically find a high-quality answer, precisely because the Sublime Text community is so large and active).<p>Edit: I don't usually complain about downvotes, but it's pretty evident that people are downvoting this because they disagree, not because they think it doesn't add anything substantive to the discussion.  I'm an author myself, so I know how much work goes into producing (and marketing) a book, and I'm totally supportive of the author trying to make the project worth his time.  I'm merely pointing out that if you look at the market, its list price should probably be closer to the "with coupon" price.