Now that Amazon will give you 70% if you price under $10 and sell on Kindle, it's a whole new world for writers who want to release independently. If you put y

Now that Amazon will give you 70% if you price under $10 and sell on Kindle, it's a whole new world for writers who want to release independently. If you put your book on Kindle Unlimited, you get paid by how many pages people read. Sure, you have to do all your marketing, but giving out free copies of your book for reviews is a low-cost way to bootstrap a following. Once you get a decent number of reviews and climb in the sales rank, the rest takes care of itself. Of course, your book has to be good, which is the very hard part. Since Kindle lets you read free samples, I've read some of the lower ranked stuff in the genre I write in and it's pretty awful. However, I've heard there are people who write in certain genres like erotica and write total trash, but they making a living at it anyway by targeting various niches.