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Publishers rejected me, but I went on to earn six-figures selling 1000 books/day
- Domenic_S 9y agoGood for him. Not sure why it's front-page worthy here, but (sincerely), good for him.
- wolfram74 9y agoIt plays to the anti-establishment current that runs in many tech circles? "I'm a self taught programmer, what do those archaic universities know how to teach besides elitist literature and social justice nonsense", that guy we all know one or two of.
- justboxing 9y ago[DELETED]
- logicallee 9y agowhat a weird objection. I have no idea how to read it like you're trying to - you're saying it implies that every day he writes, from beginning to end, 1,000 books - or, one book every 50 seconds, for 14 hours, and sells each of them to a publisher for approximately $0.33 each? (1,000 * 0.33 * 365 = six figures) Or what is this absurd reading that you think it said? The only way I read the title is exactly how it is meant to be and it doesn't seem click-baity at all.
- jseliger 9y agoPublishers rejected me, and I haven't gone on to sell 1,000 books per day. I've sold enough to be kind of interesting. Beware of salience bias and extrapolating from exceptions.
- pmiller2 9y agoAnd even your experience is pretty atypical. Most people probably couldn't write a book 1000 people would be interested in buying at all.
- asdfaoeu 9y ago> went on to earn six-figures selling 1,000 books a day > while Mr Edwards now takes home a comfortable five-figure income. I assume this is pounds/dollars but still.
- hueving 9y agoFor every rejection that resulted in someone succeeding anyway, there are probably 2 orders of magnitude more people that were also rejected and ultimately failed. Nobody writes about the latter group.
- jon_richards 9y agoRelevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1827/ https://xkcd.com/1827/
- hacker_9 9y agoHarsh but true.