Tushar Gupta is a Senior Product Manager at Packt. He produces books in the Machine Learning and AI portfolio. He's been in tech publishing for close to 8 years. And has produced over 300 books to date.
In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- How did you get into the world of book publishing?
- How do you identify topics for books?
- What trends are you seeing in ML books?
- What does great writing look like to you?
- What is the learning journey of a reader?
- How to think about your book's target audience?
- How do you work with authors?
- What's the step by step process of writing a book?
- What advice do you have for people who want to write their first book?
- What areas of ML are gaining traction in 2022?
- What type of book tends to sell more? A text book, a book containing recipes, or a book that does a deep dive?
- What do book readers want?
- What's the role of communities in book publishing?