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How I Made $2000 Writing An eBook (tjholowaychuk.com)
19 points by mcantelon on April 16, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 14 comments


The eBook it self probably took around 3-4 hours to write

holy cow, i don't think i could type 60 pages of coherent markup in 3-4 hours.


He's a pretty prolific guy... if you're into Javascript, his Github repo has lots of great stuff: http://github.com/visionmedia


How did you market it?


Probably by creating posts like this one on sites like HN


Then again, advertising that you spent four minutes per page writing the thing isn't really marketing.


True, and I bet most of those pages were code samples


4 minutes per page? As someone who has written two books, I call BS.


Ignoring the spammer's attempt to spam and trying to bring some ideas in this conversation, If you're really interested to write anything useful, you should get in contact with Geoffrey Grosenbach from peepcode(http://peepcode.com/questions#are-you-hiring). They often publish third part ebooks, if your book is accepted and sold about 1k copies they claim that you'll receive US$3,000. peepcode's eBooks and Screencasts are memorable for it's simplicity and pragmatism.


I went and read their Author Guide. This line stuck out:

>Our goal is to sell at least 1,000 copies of your book (a reasonable target after a few months of sales). If this happens, you'll receive about US$3,000. The first $2,000 of this will come when your book is published, and the remainder will be paid quarterly in January, April, July, and October.

There is something about that which really bugs me, mainly it's the word 'if'.


My startup (FiFoBooks.com) offers another possibility: authors retain all the rights to their work, have full editorial control, set their own prices, and also keep the majority of the sales proceeds, with no "ifs".


My hotshot affiliate marketing client in Dallas made $150,000 on his eBook over a period of 2 years' sales. I don't usually approach my affiliate marketing clients and press them for details -- that's kind of why they like me I'm thinking. But I sure am curious what the topic was about. My guess was that it was about affiliate marketing.


Does anyone know if there is some sort of contribution-friendly eBook store with high amounts of visitors? In a way like the App Store, just for eBooks (of course with less visitors)?


what a shit ass blog post.


How I Made -$2000- $2000CAD Writing An eBook




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