Comment by syngrog66

A few years ago I began an effort to write a new tech book. I planned orig to do as much of it as I could across a series of commits in a public GitHub repo of mine.

I then changed course. Why? I had read increasing reports of human e-book pirates (copying your book's content then repackaging it for sale under a diff title, byline, cover, and possibly at a much lower or even much higher price.)

And then the rise of LLMs and their ravenous training ingest bots -- plagiarism at scale and potentially even easier to disguise.

"Not gonna happen." - Bush Sr., via Dana Carvey

Now I keep the bulk of my book material non-public during dev. I'm sure I'll share a chapter candidate or so at some point before final release, for feedback and publicity. But the bulk will debut all together at once, and only once polished and behind a paywall