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Self-Publishing Business Anonymous Thu Dec 29 18:01:08 2022 No.53061566 [Reply] [Original]

Financially speaking, I want to get into the Kindle-sphere and self-publish some ebooks. Mainly self-help books and intense capeshit inspired erotica. Anyone have experience doing this? I feel like charging a buck for 75 pages of cheesy self-help material is easy money easy life. "Romance"-wise, is it worth to set up a Patreon and offer like member exclusive content and such?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 19:02:22 2022 No.53062333 >>53061566 publish with anyone BUT gaymazon they will take your money and you'll be swamped, not even by the sheer amount of trash, but by their fucktarded algorithms

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 19:51:40 2022 No.53062950 File: 247 KB, 775x849, 27915.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>53062333 Checked and what other options are there?

Anonymous Thu Dec 29 19:58:56 2022 No.53063045
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I sell public domain books on Amazon, currently making about 500 GBP a month. Pic related is this month's earnings. Two years ago it was making a grand a month, but it's dropped off pretty badly.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 20:46:21 2022 No.53063683 >>53063045 How do you sell public domain when they're free? Lmfao

Anonymous Thu Dec 29 20:56:26 2022 No.53063810

>>53061566
If youre serious, join the 20booksto50k facebook page and see what self pu authors are doing right now. They just had a convention last month and all the panels are free on their channel.
https://youtube.com/@20Booksto50kRLiveEvents
They even have a video on running a patreon.
https://youtu.be/0e2TNChbI2g
>>53062333
Yeah just avoid the largest retailer on the market kek.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 20:57:58 2022 No.53063832 >>53063683 Hes selling books dumbass.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 21:35:04 2022 No.53064349 >>53063832 Public domain books are free you moron hahahaha

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 21:44:06 2022 No.53064489 >>53063683 >>53064349 You clearly don't understand how Amazon works. The first seller of a public domain ebook on Amazon gets the exclusive right to sell that ebook on Amazon.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 22:56:55 2022 No.53065461 >>53063045 You gave me a great idea. No clue if it'll make money though.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 23:07:09 2022 No.53065592 >>53065461 Wait just realized public domain begins at the 20's. I hate the american government so much bros. At least if I can find the rights holders to these books I should be able to buy it off of them cheaply.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 23:07:43 2022 No.53065597 File: 130 KB, 1280x960, 7652559.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>53061566 I enjoy infinite jest but always get bored after 100 pages. will finish one day I guess

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 23:08:56 2022 No.53065612 >>53064349 Please visit your local bookstore and ask for some free books you concussed retard.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 23:09:36 2022 No.53065622 >>53065597 sort of working as intended

Anonymous Thu Dec 29 23:13:17 2022 No.53065656

>>53065597
My go to life meme is no one has finished the copy of Infinite Jest sitting on their bookshelf, myself included. I love the prose but there is no way I have the mana to get through that thing. I know people who claim they have, reading the footnotes with two bookmarks or what have you, but I remain skeptical... clearly they are just prying at my ego or are actual aliens

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 23:15:17 2022 No.53065675 >>53065597 just skip the tennis court thermonuclear war simulation. gets better after that

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 23:19:12 2022 No.53065717 >>53065656 true in my experience. i once sat next to david james duncan at a bar and he said he never finished it despite knowing dfw using the same editor kek

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 23:37:09 2022 No.53065897 Any book sellers want to advise how to get my conversions up? It's the doomer to bloomer ads on the r9k board. I actually think it's valuable to 4chan types

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 01:55:46 2022 No.53067282 >>53065597 Yeah me too. I lie about having read it, but will actually finish it one day.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 02:02:03 2022 No.53067352 >>53065656 i finished it. ending was a letdown. no closure on anything. my favorite chapters were the ones which summarized Himself's movies. Blood Sister: One Tough Nun and Bye-Bye to the Bureaucrat were my favorites

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 02:04:53 2022 No.53067377 >>53067352 Quit prying at my ego you alien!

Anonymous Fri Dec 30 03:42:46 2022 No.53068170

>>53065675
can't do that. it's a fun chapter to read and you need to now and consider the injuries for the ending to make sense.
>>53067352
it's a puzzle. reread the entire book, but mostly the conversation w himself's ghost and late-book wheelchair assassin passages.

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