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I fear we are built different.
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There's nothing passive about writing 78 books. That's what, approx 2k per book? If this were 20 years in the future since the books were written, sure. This is more just a person writing a ton of books for relatively little money. Please don't take it as any insult, I love the energy and drive. It's just not passive in any sense of the word.
It sounds even stupid to write programming books for passive income. You need to regularly update them in order to be able to sell them well.
It’s an outlier, sure. But it’s proof you can write on programming topics that are very sticky.
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There's nothing passive about writing 78 books. That's what, approx 2k per book? If this were 20 years in the future since the books were written, sure. This is more just a person writing a ton of books for relatively little money. Please don't take it as any insult, I love the energy and drive. It's just not passive in any sense of the word.
Passive income was never defined as "no work, receive income". It was, "work once, passive income later without extra work". As in, your full time employer will stop paying you if you stop working. Your books that you wrote some time ago will generate income in perpetuity without any extra work. You still need to put in the upfront work of creating something. It just so happens that something can generate income for…
But this seems different -so far-. This is more akin to building 80 money printing machines that each print a certain amount of money. They may work forever, or die in 6 months, or not work at all.
I guess my entire point is that this is a monumental amount of seemingly continuing effort. It's simply too early to call it passive IMO.
However, dates are missing here. If OP wrote his last book 5 years ago and is collecting this income each year, I'll gladly eat crow.
> I wake up daily excited to write. When work is a dread, or when something unhappy pops up, some writing will always bring in positive energy into me. I don’t dread writing. In fact, I can’t stop myself from writing! I fear we are built different.
It doesn't matter from where you start. If you do this, you'll accomplish more than you ever thought you could.
You aren't built different.
Thank you for helpful tips! Solid advice: Write Short and Concise Books. Instead of writing a 500-page book selling for $50 (which probably few will buy), write a 100-page book and sell it for lesser which greatly increases the number of buyers! ...It fits in Amazon’s price range of $2.99 — $9.99 (gets 70% royalties for ebooks). Anything lesser or more gets 35% royalty. This is for the ebook version. Paperbacks have…
Awesome, well done! Which book was the easiest to write, and why?
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.
"Passive" has truly gone down the path of "literally".
It's just clickbait for engagement, this is the author's new job in writing the ebooks. Better title: Earned $26,000 per year writing 20,000–30,000 word books and selling them for $9.99. Subtitle: Split book into another $9.99 book if there is more to say. Here's why.
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I use HTML but it's not the best. Latex is probably a better option.
Is LaTeX still a good choice for "modern" ebooks? Do folks still want PDFs?
So, neither of those.
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Passive income was never defined as "no work, receive income". It was, "work once, passive income later without extra work". As in, your full time employer will stop paying you if you stop working. Your books that you wrote some time ago will generate income in perpetuity without any extra work. You still need to put in the upfront work of creating something. It just so happens that something can generate income for…
Passive is the opposite of active, I get the definition. Something you're no longer really actively working on that keeps making money. I'm jealous, I'd love to have such an idea. But this seems different -so far-. This is more akin to building 80 money printing machines that each print a certain amount of money. They may work forever, or die in 6 months, or not work at all. I guess my entire point is that this is a…
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