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Which book is this?
How To Destroy A Tech Startup In Three Easy Steps. See my profile page.
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I sold 640 copies of my book in one year
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Re: I sold 640 copies of my book in one year
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> I can't sell paper outside the UK any more. What is this down to? Export regulations? Could you use print on demand or something instead?
Shipping and tax mainly. What I hope to put into readers' hands for about $15 ends up costing them $30-$40. Physical distribution still seems a mess for small publishers who are in that gap between full POD/Lulu type thing and working with a major brand. For example, many distributors won't take on business with publishers with less than 5 or 10 titles. Mine has 3, so is considered a "vanity press". Coordinating POD…
Have you looked into Ingram Spark? They do on-demand global distribution. I'm considering it for my book once I finish the ebook and get around to printing paper copies.
Re: I sold 640 copies of my book in one year
#33This is really impressive! I recently hit $1000 in sales on mine and celebrated with a glass of something nice. You're right about how much time marketing takes - I don't spend nearly enough time on it but I'm trying to get myself into a pace where I alternate iterating on the book itself and then doing some marketing (reddit, twitter, website).
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#34I will never forget the first day I made a $15 sale of my first book.
A moment to be forever treasured
Re: I sold 640 copies of my book in one year
#35That’s pretty great! I sold 1000 on the first day ( http://catonmat.net/awk-book ).
That's crazy good! But would be better if you also submit a story how you came to create and market it.
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#36There's a graph with 3 items per time period and no legend. And nothing about profit vs revenue really, how much did each book cost vs profit? Apart from that, very informative.
The net profit is dependent on me paying taxes, social security, and insurance. Since I also program it's hard to say exactly how much net it is. Gumroad fees are explained on their site[0]. There were no ad costs.
If I should pay my time as a business, it would be a loss.
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#37I think it is a very solid number for your first book and first year. The topic is unique too. You are doing good!
Thank you! And yes, I tried to be a bit unique to differentiate.
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#38This is exactly the resource I was currently looking for! I've recently started a pet project as a way to learn deployment and CI. I work in a big company, where the devops parts are worked on by different teams, are mighty complex and are pretty much black boxes for other teams. I've already submitted my request for the book. Best of luck for the author and thank you!
Thanks a lot! Hope you like it, and if anything, I am just an email away (and on Twitter as @strzibnyj too).
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#39Good success. The $24k is misleading, in that there is more 'untapped value' now this has been done once. If he makes a video series based on the same thing for example, it should be easier to make the next $24k using all that is set up for marketing.
That's true. I am also exhausted :D
Re: I sold 640 copies of my book in one year
#40I will never forget the first day I made a $15 sale of my first book. A moment to be forever treasured
I agree. It just feels different to $job money, doesn't it?