How I sold 10,000 books without a book deal, an agent or Amazon
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Write Useful Books: A modern approach to designing and refining recommendable nonfiction
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Now, I needed to figure out how I was going to turn all that attention into a full-time income. It was humbling for me to have spent four years on a book, only to release it into the world and sell a couple hundred copies (I couldn’t exactly “live” off $82.76 per month in royalties).
Nicolas Cole • The Art and Business of Online Writing: How to Beat the Game of Capturing and Keeping Attention
It’s one thing to imagine people going for this new model of self-publishing (free or low cost, immediate, built-in access to a large market of readers, royalty upside) versus the vanity publishing model of yore (pseudo-hardcover, obscenely expensive, slow turnaround, and then author’s burden of marketing and sales, not to mention the requirement o
... See moreMike Shatzkin • The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Once your brand gets to a certain size, you can cut out the middleman (book publishers, traditional media, etc.)
Rolf Potts • Conscious Creators — Make A Life Through Your Art Without Selling Your Soul: Rolf Potts — How to Find Soulful Success and The Dance Between Creativity and Business
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Self-Publishing: Write in Public, Presales, Podcasts
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HOW DO I SELF-PUBLISH?