Should You Self-Publish a Textbook? Should Anybody?

by Armando Fox, David Patterson

( A free PDF download of this article is available at We discuss our experience self-publishing "Engineering Software as a Service" in both hardcopy and Kindle format. The information is especially relevant to academic authors but other indie authors may find it interesting. All proceeds go to supporting our free MOOC on edX, "Engineering Software as a Service".

23 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 19, 2014

About the author

Armando Fox is a Professor at UC Berkeley, the faculty advisor to the UC Berkeley MOOCLab, and the winner of the 2015.