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I published an ebook (http://www.branchrock.com) and it's been selling. Since I'll never run out of stock and it's priced as an impulse buy, I expect that it'll continue to earn passively. I got my first dollar on the first day I started selling.

I plan to continue writing books, both non-fiction and fiction, and I expect that they'll all help bring in passive income.

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Just a suggestion - perhaps you place a sample of the book on your page? A paragraph or two, just so people can see what they are getting. Also it would be good to know how long it is.

Thanks! I'll think about how to integrate everything nicely during the blackout. Not going to change anything now since I don't want to get caught with my pants down.

Edit: I put a one-page sample on Lulu if you're curious.

Am I the only one to be offended by someone blatantly trying to profit from this unfortunate disaster while bodies are still being pulled from the ruins?

If the revenue was being donated, I'd understand, but to do it for profit, and to brag about it here...

How do you advertise? This sounds like a great idea but I'd be interested what your strategy is to get eyes on the books, since this can often be so much effort as to not be a passive income anymore.

Word-of-mouth, Facebook page, Twitter, various online communities I'm a part of. Part of the challenge is being "always on" and believing in my product (my book) and passing that belief on to other people. The way to look at it, I think, is that every person I don't mention it to ends up being a potentially lost sale.

I'm also looking into advertising on Something Awful. I'm exploring Facebook ads, but I'm not sure how good they would be. Google Adsense would be nice, but I was banned from the Adsense/Adwords service some time ago for some reason and Google has been especially unhelpful about responding to anything about any of their services.

> various online communities I'm a part of

Personally, I found out about your book yesterday, after reading your comment about videos without captions in the code school thread.

have you considered listing in the Amazon kindle? it's not too hard to do.

It should already be listed in the Kindle if you search, since it's on Amazon.

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