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Internet Publishing Can Pay Off

Posted by michael on from the two-bits dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Leander Kahney of Wired News has an article (Net Publishing Made Profitable) about how the publishers of the free, online newsletter TidBITS have hit the jackpot with their highly focused Take Control ebook series (nicely formatted PDFs that are easy to read on screen or print). Authors earn 50% royalties, and the books cost $5 or $10, with free updates. All the books out right now are about Mac topics, but maybe they'll branch out in the future."

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  1. Re:American stupidity or political correctness ? by grolschie · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dude you fail it. Even googlewar says so. ;-)

  2. What??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You mean all this time I've been doing it wrong by placing tiny classified ads?

  3. Re:Doesn't Always Work by MaineCoon · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sales were so abysmal

    So was the book. Kind of explains the sales, eh?

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  4. Re:Ignore This. by Zorilla · · Score: 3, Funny

    Actually, what usually happens is that somebody with a six-figure UID will reply to a user with a four-figure UID with this:

    "You must be new here."

    Disclaimer: I have a high six-figure UID

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  5. Re:Doesn't Always Work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The sales were so abysmal he died from it *ducks*