It's a pretty straight forward concept (certainly nothing new): charge for teaching/sharing info in a format you can distribute and charge for. This article doe

It's a pretty straight forward concept (certainly nothing new): charge for teaching/sharing info in a format you can distribute and charge for. This article does make a good description of what these products can be. The problem this article makes no attempt to address is, once you have an "infoproduct" ready to ship how do you find customers? As a post last week (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1759052 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1759052) referenced , you may need 1000 true fans to make a living selling direct (http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fans.php http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fan...) I'm sure we all have info products in us, but the barrier to entry (or at least making a living) will be finding the balance of desiredIncome / numberOfCustomers = salePrice Factoring in the effort to find the number of customers required is at least as much work as creating a product in the first place.