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Well to be honest on Kindle I've seen the trend of writing articles as books and charging 99 cents to $2.99 for them and then giving them away for free on KDP d
by orionblastar 11y ago
Well to be honest on Kindle I've seen the trend of writing articles as books and charging 99 cents to $2.99 for them and then giving them away for free on KDP days when they get the free promotion.
Stuff that would have been a blog post on how to do something that takes up about 15 to 30 pages of typed text that could have been several blog entries now makes up an article as a book.
I became disabled in 2003, and took up writing and wrote a book and saved it to floppy disk. After I couldn't get it published I self-published it on Amazon Kindle around 2010 and sold about 50,000 copies mostly on KDP days when I gave it away for free. It is a short story that I could rewrite into a full novel or trilogy or something if I had help with the editing and grammar.
You have people getting into writing books for the same reason you got people getting into programming, to earn money in a bad economy. Not everyone is good at it, and it takes time to develop the talent and gain the experience to get good at both.
Digital books have stopped evolving because too many people got into it and have written low quality books.
You have the same problem with "Flipping" where people buy things from Goodwill and Thrift Stores and sell them on eBay and now Goodwill and Thrift Stores have increased their prices so they can sell things for more for the people who are flipping items from their stores. As a result the poor now have to pay more for items, almost retail price in some cases.
What they have in common is that people are trying to earn an income from them. As more people lose their jobs or don't earn enough they will try to get into programming, ebook writing, flipping, etc to earn more money. As you get more people most of them are low quality and don't know what they are doing yet. The ones that make the money are the ones that teach them how to do these things or sell ebooks on how to do these things.