[sytelus]

No offense, but your book website looks lot like a late night TV ads and frankly leaves a bad taste.

The way I like to buy a book is go to Amazon, look at table of content, read few pages and most importantly read some reviews. Your book currently doesn't even appear in Amazon search (or even Google search). Despite myself being quite active in the field, I had never heard about your book before (I know of at least other dozen books on the subject). I wonder this is why you might have relatively much lower volume and such a high price to make up for your revenue target. I would think putting your book on Amazon would increase your volume by an order of a magnitude (or two) and help reduce price to may be 1/7th or 1/8th without requiring tiered pricing (which again is a huge turnoff) while increasing your net revenue actually more than before (probably by an order of magnitude). You might want to look in the theory and economics of price-volume curves.

The biggest problem with your book website is that you as an author comes out as hard-selling hard-charging marketer who wants to maximize profits and make a sell like an old car salesman to anyone who is walking by rather than experienced calm expert for who learning, teaching, academic honesty and integerity is more important than making money. Again, not saying this is who you are, it just feels that way from the style and content of the book website. Hope this helps.

[michaelbuckbee]

I feel this advice is well intentioned but fails to reflect the realities of building and marketing these types of niche products and courses.

Setting aside issues of style and what other sites are doing it's very clear what the book is about, what's included and what makes that valuable.

The prices certainly are steep compared a "book", but it really is quite a bit more (more like a self study course in ML) and really targeted towards businesses that need to make this happen within their organizations.

[imgyuri]

I don't know about his books(courses?), but his site PyImageSearch is one of the more well known sites regarding computer vision. I certainly got a lot of help from the site (Thanks Adrian).

[zionsrogue]

Thanks, I'm glad you've found the site helpful! :-)

[j_s]

It's pretty standard landing page style these days for self-published books (plus ____), because it works.

If there was a way to tone it down for the referrals coming through Medium from HN (tough to track through 2 sites) or using some is-logged-in-to-HN hack (which would probably piss off people even more if detected) maybe it could be dialed back a hair to catch people like you, but it's probably not worth the effort.

The reply from the author seems to be perfect: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15914307