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#114 - How to Write a Best-Selling O'Reilly Technical Book w/ Joe Reis & Matt Housley

Monday Morning Data Chat

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The Table of Contents Changed a Lot, Right?

There were significant changes as we went along. We ended up shuffling a lot of material. There were certain sections that we kind of rewrote or reshuffled many times like architecture, just because it was so challenging. And then the whole content changed to I think when I looked at the original, you know, book proposal is like eight chapters we're going to write and 350 pages. You want to maybe maybe you shoot for 300 pages and you end up with 400 because you'll always come up with more ideas. The manuscript we've had was probably much longer. I mean, I think it was like 50 60 pages extra that weren't published. So yeah, the table of contents

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