Why would someone need 90K to write a book while already having a profession?
Interviewing three people is also apparently worth 5K.
And the book's photos are black & white ...
Interviewing three people is also apparently worth 5K.
And the book's photos are black & white ...
I didn't "need" $90k to write the book.
I chose to sell copies of a book, at typical book prices. Thousands of people chose to buy the book. That's where the $90k number comes from.
> And the book's photos are black & white ...
"The food is terrible...and the portions are so small".
The wonderful thing about the free market is that those who want to buy a thing can, and those who don't, need not.
Cheers!
If we want to be technical you weren't selling copies of a book, you were selling the promise of finished copies of a book.
> "The food is terrible...and the portions are so small".
It's great to see how you take valid criticism.
> The wonderful thing about the free market is that those who want to buy a thing can, and those who don't, need not.
Absolutely correct. However, that doesn't prevent me from expressing valid criticism.
But good on you for writing this book. I think it's a very interesting topic and will probably buy a copy.
I just wish people were a bit more honest about their goals sometimes.
Despite all the defensive language, kickstarters are really pre-sales. 90k sales for a book is very respectable but not overwhelming. It means he's found a great market for this book.
Although I find things like farming and agriculture and outdoors to have a less capitalistic shade and more of a genuine "i want to help people achieve their goals and not die" shade.
I'll be very upfront: homesteading is a money losing proposition. It's a consumption good - it costs more than any (monetary) profit it brings.
And my writing about it is ALSO money losing. I'm a coder. When I write and sell novels, the opportunity cost is huge - at an hourly rate, I lose about 90% of what I could otherwise be making coding.
Writing about homesteading is much better - I only lose about 50% of what I could otherwise be making.
I write because (a) I am more driven to create and share my ideas with people than I am to make a marginal dollar, (b) I am ideologically in favor of people moving to the countryside and living a different lifestyle, so writing is an ideological / political choice.