That’s one less beer I’m buying you in Austin, Darren. :-)

Actually, that might be a good thing.

It makes so much more sense to put time into creating your own content and equity that can be leveraged for months and years to come.

I have e-books in 3 different niche markets, one that has sold for 8-years now with only a few hours of updating each year to keep it current…pretty good for the 45-days or so it took me to put it together.

There really is a large group of “underground” information publishers that are quietly making a living packaging ‘how to’ information for their audiences…exciting stuff.

Jeff

http://www.writingforums.org/archive/index.php/t-3617.html

I am going to move forward with this regrding my own site at monologueblogger.com

Scott – Outsourcing is also a great option. I’m getting a 200 page book done on eLance for $400. The quality is pretty solid (being completed by a lady with her masters in mass communications) and I’m doing all the formatting myself…but overall it’s saving me a TON of time.

Ebooks are so useful when you want to learn something straight away and not have to wait for delivery.

And I can understand why people go down this route – it’s far more profitable than traditional publishing for the average author.

What I do hate is these lazy people who write something 50 to 60 pages long, because they’re too lazy to put in the effort to write anything worthwile.

Something that short is not a book and it’s misleading of them to say it is in their sales blurb.

I’ll disagree that people can pump out a really good quality ebook of 50 pages in two weeks. We’re fast, and 50 pages including formatting and graphics takes a month of intensive labor, which includes two edits. We’ve pushed for faster and the quality took a hit. It isn’t worth rushing to get sloppy work or cheap content, I think.

But that’s just us ;)

@ Chrissie – Ejunkie works really well – I agree!

Cyan, or anybody looking into self publishing, would find interest in two books:

“Aiming At Amazon” and “Perfect Pages”

Regards
Shane Arthur

I’m from Australia and would like more information regarding self-publishing as an Australian.

However any information would good nice :)

Now you can see how people can pump out 40-50 page ebooks in 2 weeks, right?

…still not sure if it’s the best way to go, but it certainly becomes a less frightening project – with just as much time per page to ensure quality.

thanks!

I use e-junkie and I’m loving it. It was so easy to set up and very reasonably priced.

Even for a niche blogger like me, an e-book is a great way to monetize. I’ve seen a lot of success so I encourage others to try it as well. It’s a very satisfying thing to accomplish!

. :-D You can’t help but wonder if the voice technologies of the next decade will change this tradition.

Perhaps ‘writers’ will have access to tiny recorders with flexible screens that they can use anytime to record their thoughts – and have it accurately and instantly translated to grammar corrected text …

… then automatically sent to the a specific updated file location on their home or business PC. .

Which essentially means, you can write a book, edit it with other participants – in real time – by recording your thoughts