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I find it more refreshing to read success stories of $16,920.12 rather than $250,000 on my first book success stories. Perhaps it comes from the fear of the 'I
by carlmcqueen 13y ago
I find it more refreshing to read success stories of $16,920.12 rather than $250,000 on my first book success stories.
Perhaps it comes from the fear of the 'I know a guy who...' stories that you hear as an anecdote why someone who really shouldn't take a huge risk is about to take one.
Congratulations on your first book, hopefully the lessons learned will lead to continued success with future endeavors.
- johnward 13y agoWhen I heard huge successes I tend to think "well they already had a well established network". That's not always true the. I'm pretty sure Nathan Barry didn't and I would call what he did a big success.
- nathanbarry 13y agoThat actually made a big difference for me as well. When I had heard about self-published ebooks making money it was 37signals making $400,000+. That didn't inspire me at all since they had a massive audience. But when I read Sacha Greif and Jarrod Drysdale share their numbers from small audiences (an audience size I knew I could achieve) I was inspired. They made $6500 and $8000 from their ebook launches. Since I didn't have any kind of an audience at the time I thought if I did half that I would consider it a success. Turns out I did 2x! I still share numbers, since I always have, but I agree that it is the smaller numbers that are truly inspiring.
- YvesHanoulle 13y agothat is another cool thing of Leanpub. if you go to lean pub.com you can see how much money they have paid to all their authors in total: Currently it says: Authors have made $1,130,454 selling their books on Leanpub — $91,438 in the last 30 days.