When I started with self-publishing, you could find my books at:
https://www.amazon.com/author/vsubhash
https://www.goodreads.com/vsubhash
Now, several other stores (including Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Scribd and Vivlio) are selling them. So, I created this page to have the most up-to-date information about all my books in one place.
Attention Indian Readers
You can pay in Indian rupees to buy some of my books at Amazon.in and BooksWagon.com. (The latter seems to be cheaper.) Both take three weeks or more to deliver the books.
Attention Other Readers
Amazon UK has the lowest prices for my books. You can check BookDepository.com (an Amazon company) to see if they have lower rates. They ship from UK but do not charge extra for international shipping.
2020 Fresh Clean Jokes For Everyone
The 2020 jokebook has the best one-liners ever written by one author in English. It has over 3100 jokes spread over three parts.
Part 1 (For Learning) is for kids. Part 2 (For Fun) and Part 3 (Only for intellectuals) are written for all ages. They provide hedonistic enjoyment of humour and also contain some extremely sharp political/satirical humour. Part 3 is clearly marked with warning signs to prevent accidental 'triggering' of sensitive adults. All jokes are family-friendly and child-friendly. No 彡 or (‿ˠ‿) humour.
- Target: Age 20 and above
- First published on: July 2020
- Pages: 273
Format | Store | Price |
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Paperback | Amazon | $12, £10, €10, ₹1400 |
Paperback | BN.com | $12 |
eBook | This will never be published. Part 1 of this book is for kids and kids should learn from physical books. |
2020 Fresh Clean Jokes For Kids
This 'for kids' subset of the 2020 jokebook has 2200 jokes. It has all of Part 1 (For Learning) and some non-political jokes from Part 2 (For Fun) & Part 3 (Only For Intellectuals).
- Target: Ages 10-19
- First published on: July 2020
- Pages: 176
Format | Store | Price |
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Paperback | Amazon | $10, £6, €9, ₹1200 |
eBook | This will never be published. This book is for kids and kids should learn from physical books. |
400 Fresh Clean Jokes For Everyone
This was the first installment of the 2020 jokebook with 470 jokes when I wanted to test self-publishing. It has been retained as an ebook sampler. The paperback option provides less value for money compared to the final 2020 jokebooks but it has almost all of the 'politically hot' jokes.
- Target: Age 20 and above
- First published on: February 2020
- Pages: 142
Format | Store | Price |
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Paperback | Amazon | $6.9, £6, €6 |
eBook (Kindle) | Amazon | FREE |
eBook (Nook) | BN.com | FREE |
eBook (all) | Apple Books, Kobo, Scribd... | FREE |
https://books2read.com/jokes |
FFMPEG Quick Hacks
Quickly learn to use the free command-line video-editing utility FFMPEG - cut, copy, record, edit, tag, convert, rotate, flip, resize, crop, combine, compose, blur, sharpen, smoothen, side-by-side split, PIP inset, fade in/out... Also learn to use subtitles, audio/image files and metadata with video.
This book provides an FFmpeg tutorial, hack collection and desk-side reference.
- Target: Anyone who needs to work with audio/video files and can use the command line (command prompt)
- First published on: April 2020
- Pages: 148
Because this is a book about multimedia processing, it has to be in colour. Full-colour books are expensive to print.
Format | Store | Price |
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Paperback (full colour) | Amazon | $26, £16, €24, ₹3,600 |
eBook (Kindle) (Print replica) | Amazon | $3, £3, €3 |
eBook (Nook) (Reflow EPUB) | BN.com | $4 |
eBook (all) (Reflow EPUB) | Apple Books, Kobo, Scribd... | $4 |
https://books2read.com/ffmpeg |
CommonMark Ready Reference
This is the first book ever written on CommonMark, the new MarkDown standard.
CommonMark is replacing Markdown as the de facto standard for low-markup text. CommonMark hit the ground with a well-defined standard from Day 1 and is set to replace and overtake MarkDown. StackOverFlow.com and other sites have already adopted it. CommonMark is MarkDown done right. It is highly compatible with the original MarkDown and resolves most of its ambiguities. This book provides a tutorial, hacks collection and a ready reference for the new standard.
- Target: Authors, web designers, content/technical writers
- First published on: June 2020
- Pages: 44 (36 pages with real content)
Format | Store | Price |
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Paperback | Amazon | $6, £5, €6 |
eBook (Kindle) | Amazon | ₹70, $0.99, £0.99, €0.99 |
Paperback | BN.com | $6 |
eBook (Nook) | BN.com | $0.99 |
eBook (all) | Apple Books, Kobo, Scribd... | $0.99 |
https://books2read.com/commonmark |
The ebook can also be borrowed for a fraction of the price from many public and school libraries.
Learn To Ride A Motorcycle In Five Minutes
Of course, you can learn to ride a motorbike in five minutes! For most of my life, I did not know how to ride a motorbike. But, when I had to do, it took me only five minutes. On my first ride on my first bike, I travelled nearly 100 kilometres, across two cities and one national highway. Acquiring the skill takes less than five minutes and honing it will require a few weeks of practice.
- Target: Anyone who can ride a scooter/scooterette (not the skateboard-like thing)
- First published on: July 2020
- Pages: 36 (30 pages of real content)
Format | Store | Price |
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Paperback | Amazon | $6, £5, €6 |
eBook (Kindle) | Amazon | ₹100, $2, £2, €2 |
Paperback | BN.com | $6 |
eBook (Nook) | BN.com | $2 |
eBook (all) | Apple Books, Kobo, Scribd... | $2 |
https://books2read.com/motorcycling |
The ebook can also be borrowed for a fraction of the price from many public and school libraries.
Vastu Shastra Explained
Vastu Shastra Explained is a plain-English Vástu Śastra building-architecture guide for those who wish to draw their own Vastu-compliant house plans. The book does not upsell Vaastu as a panacea for all ills nor does it portray Vastu as the Indian Feng Shui. Instead, it presents Vastu as a collection of time-tested best-practices in Indian building architecture.
- Target: New homebuilders
- First published on: July 2020
- Pages: 40 (30 pages with real content)
Format | Store | Price |
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Paperback (full colour) | Amazon | $7.77, £7.77, €7.77 |
Paperback (grayscale) | Amazon | $6, £6, €6 |
eBook (Kindle) | Amazon | ₹100, $2, £2, €2 |
eBook (Nook) | BN.com | $2 |
eBook (all) | Apple Books, Kobo, Scribd... | $2 |
https://books2read.com/vastu |
The ebook can also be borrowed for a fraction of the price from many public and school libraries.
A Really Traditional Alphabet Book
This children's book bundles an alphabet book (with a writing work area on each letter page) and a jokes-and-puzzles book. The alphabet book uses the same words that have been traditionally used to teach young kids. Young preschoolers can practice reading and writing the English alphabet with this book. The jokes and puzzles are of course new and are sourced from my book 2020 Fresh Clean Jokes For Kids.
- Target: Ages 3 to 12
- First published on: 6 August, 2020
- Pages: 34 (32 pages of actual content)
Format | Store | Price |
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Paperback (FULL COLOUR) | Amazon | $8, £5.20, €6 |
Animalia Humorosum by Ólafía L. Óla
This is an illustrated children's storybook based on Aesop's Fables. The stories have been made more believable by changing the ending with a humorous twist. The book is a large-print full-bleed full-colour paperback with a glossy cover.
- Target: Ages 3 to 12
- First published on: 20 October, 2020
- Pages: 30 (27 pages of actual content)
Format | Store | Price |
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Paperback (FULL COLOUR) | Amazon | $11, £9, €9 |
Print-replica Kindle ebook (for parental review) | Amazon | $1 or FREE |
Ordinary eBook (for free parental review) | books2read.com/animalia |
Ólafía L. Óla will henceforth be my pseudonym of children's books.
Email Newsletter Strategies For Profit
This book not only explains how to create user-friendly email newsletters but also helps you improve email deliverability, organically grow your mailing list, understand industry-standard best-practices and apply practical troubleshooting tips and tricks.
- Target: Online marketers
- Published on: 27 August, 2020
- Pages: 38 (32 pages of actual content)
Format | Store | Price |
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Paperback | Amazon | $7, £5, €7 |
eBook (Print replica) | Amazon | $2 (PRE-ORDER for 20 December, 2020) |
eBook (Nook) (Reflow EPUB) | BN.com | $2 |
eBook (all) (Reflow EPUB) | Apple Books, Kobo, Scribd... | $2 |
https://books2read.com/newsletter |
The ebook (reflow EPUB) can also be borrowed for a fraction of the price from many public and school libraries.
World of Word Ladders by Ólafía L. Óla
This series of word ladder puzzles books currently has two volumes.
- Puzzles: 100 (in each book)
- Target: Ages 6 and above
- Published on: 20 December 2020
- Paperback:
Format | Store | Price |
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Volume 1 & 2 (Paperbacks) | Amazon | $6 & $7 |
Volume 1 (Kindle eBook, January 2021) | Amazon | $2 |
I am an adult and I like to solve word ladders so I have published a print-replica Kindle ebook version of the first volume. It has been designated for teenagers and adults. If there is some demand for it, I will also publish the second volume as an ebook.
The Devil's Dictionary (Illustrated)
This 2020 illustrated version of the text-only original (1911) by Ambrose Bierce has contemporary illustrations and the neat easy-on-the-eye look of any new dictionary (modern fonts, two-column pages, starting/ending words on every page).
- Pages: 152
- Illustrations: 17 (including Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Bill Gates, Don Lemon, Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Tedros Adhanom... meeting the Devil)
- Published on: 12 December 2020
- Target: Any normal human (that means excluding intolerant, lefty, liberal, progressive Communists, Socialists, Feminists,...)
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Buy:
Format Store Price Print-replica Kindle ebook Amazon $2, £2, €2 Paperback Amazon $8, £6, €7
Dictionary Of Indian English
The Dictionary Of Indian English, in its first edition, is a glossary of English words or phrases that have been invented in India or have meanings that are different from the ones specified in dictionaries published in the West. Currently, it has around 400 words. In future editions, it will become a full-fledged dictionary.
- Pages: 34 (25 pages of real content in the paperback)
- Published on: 30 December 2020
- Free PDF Sample:
dictionary-of-indian-english-free-sample.pdf - Target: Non-Indians who need to read Indian fiction or news.
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Buy:
Format Store Price Format Store Price Kindle ebook Amazon $1, £1, €1 Paperback Amazon $7, £5, €5
Ólafia L. Óla's Favourite Traditional Nursery Rhymes (Illustrated)
The political correctness pandemic has caused many nursery rhymes to be rewritten or eliminated altogether. This illustrated children's book has 50 popular English nursery rhymes in their traditional form.
- Pages: 44 (41 with real content)
- Published in: January 2021
Format | Store | Price |
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Colour Paperback | Amazon | $11, £9, €9 |
How To Invest In Stocks, 2nd edition
This is a plain-English guide to investing in the stockmarket. It assumes that you do not know anything about how stocks, company law, finance or commerce. It has some useful 'extra' information that you will not find in any investment book and no business school will teach you. Mere book knowledge about stockmarkets will not help you understand the markets. Markets are influenced by news and information (there is a difference). This completely revised expanded second edition continues its original premise with up-to-date information.
- Pages: 67 (58 with real content)
- Published in: January 2021
- Target: Anyone interested in investing in the stockmarket
Format | Store | Price |
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Paperback | Amazon | $7, £5, €6 |
Kindle ebook | Amazon | $2, £2, €2 |
Note: Deduct at least 9 or 10 from the page count to exclude empty, title, copyright, ToC, preface and other non-content pages.