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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. Astroturfing? was: Re:Waiting for these to... by macdaddy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is this an example of the astroturfing we were warned about?

  2. Re:FP? by dbottaro · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yep - more like 4th post - looked like a good shot at the time I wrote it

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  3. Ignore This. by karmatic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I truly do have karma to burn, so I'm going to test out a thoery...

    Do people with low UIDs go around looking for Low UID threads, and reply?

    Time will tell...