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ellegriffin | karma 750 | avg karma 5.73 · 2021-05-10 18:32:51+00:00

These are amazing! Thank you so much for sharing. I will look into these as case studies.

Aerroon | karma 4503 | avg karma 2.62 · 2021-05-10 18:39:05+00:00

One more thing to consider is that some (many?) of these authors are from poorer countries. $1500 a month for them might go a lot further.

CobrastanJorji | karma 13393 | avg karma 7.52 · 2021-05-10 19:58:01

There's also the path of the "Kindle Unlimited" after-the-fact self-publisher.

I've seen several times now where an author does this:

1. Publish their novel serially on a site like Royal Road. Build up a subscriber base, get on the leaderboards, try to grow. 2. Publish it to Kindle Unlimited. Kindle Unlimited requires that no other copies be available online, so remove it all from the original site. 3. Continue writing new content as "book 2" on the original sites to try and stay discoverable and on top of the leaderboards. Hope new readers will read the first few books on Amazon, thereby finally earning some money.

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