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Every book, every store, one page. Pick your store — Gumroad for instant PDF + EPUB (DRM-free, no subscription, no seat limits, every future update lands free in the same files) or Amazon for the Kindle edition.
Both MCP books are live on Amazon Kindle. The Hermes playbooks are Gumroad-first for now — the Kindle edition is in Amazon's publishing queue. Same content, same no-discount policy everywhere.
The MCP series
Live on Amazon
The MCP Series · Book 1
MCP for Business
$12.99
- ✓ Plain-English MCP for executives, owners, operators
- ✓ The five vendor questions + the 90-day playbook
- ✓ No code, no jargon, ninety minutes
Live on Amazon
The MCP Series · Book 2
MCP for the Homelab
$8.99
- ✓ First MCP server tonight, on hardware you own
- ✓ The Paranoid Chapter + the error catalog
- ✓ Ten recipes — the repo is free regardless
The MCP Series · Book 3
MCP for the MSP
coming soon
- ✓ MCP across many client environments — safely
- ✓ Tenancy, scoping, consent, rollback, the audit trail
- ✓ For IT admins and managed service providers
The Hermes playbooks — the bonus shelf
Complete Beginner's Guide
Hermes Agent for Complete Beginners
$12
- ✓ Zero to a running agent, no terminal experience required
- ✓ Install, first tasks, safety rails, ten starter workflows
- ✓ Written for day one, not day one-hundred
The Flagship
58 Prompts for Power Users
$29
- ✓ 58 field-tested prompts organized by job
- ✓ When-to-use notes and failure modes on every one
- ✓ Includes the searchable Prompt Library
Best value
The Complete Collection
The Complete Collection
$35
- ✓ Both books + the full searchable prompt library
- ✓ One purchase, every future update included
- ✓ Cheaper than buying the books separately
The free paths are real paths: the companion repo (ten recipes, MIT, smoke-tested), the free sample chapters on each MCP book page, and five free prompts from the Hermes playbooks. The books add the why, the security model, and the troubleshooting catalog. Either way — start tonight.