Making money from ebooks - non scam

5 points·jteo··7 comments

Anyone has success stories to share regarding profiting from writing an ebook? (and not profiting in the parrot ebook way..)

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No but based on a few comments here where I've mentioned that I live on a boat I've started writing an e-book on the ins and outs of living on a boat. It seems to be a subject that a lot of people find interesting.

So if anyone has any knowledge or examples it would be great to hear.

Why do you think the parrot ebook is a scam btw?

These guys, as horrible as most of their content is, know how to sell ebooks very well: http://www.warriorforum.com/

This seems to be at least semi-reputable: http://www.squidoo.com/7-dollar-secrets

It's not. If any ebook had all the information you needed to make money online, the author would just use the techniques himself and scale them instead of putting them in a $7 ebook.

Perhaps the technique he describes in his ebook is to sell $7 ebooks, which he is apparently doing.

You're right. I believe the premise of the $7 ebook is that $7 is the "breaking point" price that people can buy something they're unsure about and not be upset that they've wasted too much money.

Semi-reputable?

I get 50 of these "get rich" guides by e-mail every day.

If you ever need more "semi-reputable" information like that then just drop me note. For a small fee of only $7 dollars I'll send you a tarball of my spam folder.

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