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Just to add some contrast to this $20k figure and Watham's comments about the upside, I've published several small books that get very good reviews but haven't
by codazoda 5y ago
Just to add some contrast to this $20k figure and Watham's comments about the upside, I've published several small books that get very good reviews but haven't sold a lot of copies. I self published on Amazon as an eBook and then Print on Demand. My profits have totaled less than $1,000 in a couple years. My problems are likely that I don't have an audience built and Amazon rank is terrible until you have sales.
If you're not in it _just_ for the money though, go for it. It's extremely satisfying.
My most popular book is actual a book about how I self published. Publish Your Ebook by Joel Dare.
- omgitsabird 5y agoIt seems like a lot of communities are built up with the explicit intention of being in it just for the money. There seems to be a lot of hype generation and releasing for-profit educational materials alongside eachother. In my opinion, there is a strange marketing game around web frameworks and web frontend development especially.
- xmprt 5y agoThe best advice I got was to focus on the topic way more than on the actual content. Great quality content about a topic that is super niche won't make much revenue compared to an average book that reaches a wide market.
- xmprt 5y agoThat's not to say that you should write average books. It's more that people usually underestimate the amount of time it takes to come up with a good idea. And then they keep investing time into a bad idea due to sunk cost fallacy.