Thread: There's a better way to beat the ebook pirates
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Old 04-26-2011, 08:02 AM   #181
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Originally Posted by J. Strnad View Post

My book makes me about $100/month on Amazon, more or less (okay, often less). It's hard to make myself sit down and write another book for $100/month. If I knew that when I finished it I'd get a check for $100,000, I'd be up before dawn hitting the keyboard! But ebook sales...uhm, not so much.
$100 a month isn't too bad for something you wrote 10 years ago and presumably made some money from during its original print run. You actually released it into the pirate community yourself, long before you put it on Amazon, so can you tell us if doing that hurt your sales in any way?

Also, presumably if you wrote something else a lot of the people who have already bought (or downloaded) that one would buy the new one soon after it was released, and after that it would make about the same amount?

So the secret to making a living as a writer would be to write more?
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