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greglim81··on I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction books
You are right.
greglim81··on I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction books
its enough! More than i can ask for. I am satisfied :)
greglim81··on I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction books
hello fellow sg!

yea, if my day job was tech (it was previously), i would be so sick of it and wouldn't touch it when I got home. But now, i don't touch it in my day job and it suddenly becomes a pleasure to tinker with.

greglim81··on I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction books
i document more on these in twitter. :)
greglim81··on I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction books
i make sure not to take a lot of time to write a book. I don't write everyday. Perhaps just 3-4 days in a week? And at most 45 min per day.

whenever i am busy with church, family, i will put writing down. Won't ever compromise them.

And, its just a hobby i enjoy doing.

greglim81··on I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction books
glad it inspired u to write your book!
greglim81··on I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction books
will document them in twitter
greglim81··on I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction books
Exactly! THanks!
greglim81··on I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction books
So far for April: From Amazon $2,064.81 From Gumroad $384.96

There's also Smashwords & Ingramspark as well but I won't share those for now.

greglim81··on I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction books
about 2 months writing on the side for each book.
greglim81··on I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction books
Hello, I believe in writing short books and spending no more than 3 months on a book. In case the book is a failure, I cut my losses.

But yea, i hope to have other products priced more than $9.99 outside Amazon, eg gumroad

greglim81··on I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction books
I did put in work.

I am lucky.

greglim81··on I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction books
"The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil."

Eccl 12:13-14

greglim81··on I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction books
many of my books have been there for years.
greglim81··on I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction books
paperback sells better
greglim81··on I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction books
its in the article :)
greglim81··on I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction books
you never know. just try. :)
greglim81··on I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction books
I didn't do anything this month. So far royalties > $2,000. And I am thankful for it :)
greglim81··on I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction books
But regularly updating them also gives you the edge over established publishers who DON'T update them.

and its not too difficult to update books, as compared to updating videos.

greglim81··on I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction books
Its mainly jsut about eight books that bring in majority of the income. Amazon doesn't allow authors to delete unpublished books, thus showing 80.

you can check out the active books here:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=greg+lim&ref=nb_sb_noss

greglim81··on I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction books
Gotta sell it right? =)
greglim81··on I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction books
Hey Curtise!

The initial books were harder to write as I hadn't flexed my writing muscles yet. but as i wrote more books, and get greater technical knowledge, subsequent books got easier and easier.

I would say the easiest book I got to write is my current on on Svelte (yet to be published) as i can leverage much of the content from my previous React, Angular books.

greglim81··on I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction books
glad it helped!
greglim81··on I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction books
yes yes. i gave up hope on this article having submitted it months ago.

just tried it again today and hack, it went up #1.

greglim81··on I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction books
Just ms word for me
greglim81··on I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction books
Just try it.

Action over procrastination.

You never know if you gonna hit success!

greglim81··on I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction books
I write on the side though (i have a full-time job). Just a hobby :)
greglim81··on I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction books
Thank you so much Chris!
greglim81··on I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction books
passive in the sense that I wrote it once, and it continues to collect royalties for a long time after, without me having to do much :)