{"id":5975,"date":"2020-09-30T08:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.free-ebooks.net\/?p=5975"},"modified":"2020-10-01T08:09:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T16:09:59","slug":"4-steps-to-being-a-profitable-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/4-steps-to-being-a-profitable-author\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Steps to Being a Profitable Author"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe width=\"540\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/har9fxTSFgg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Why is it so hard to make money as an author? Books don\u2019t make much money on their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amazon sales may get you paid 30%-70%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even 70% of $14.95 is only about $10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you wanted to make $100,000 a year, you would have to sell 10,000 books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The average book (by a real publisher) on the shelves of Barnes &amp; Noble (pre-covid), only sells 250-300 it\u2019s the first year!!!.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will only sell 3,000 over its lifetime!&nbsp; Can you live on a few thousand dollars a year for the next ten years?&nbsp; I didn\u2019t think so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what\u2019s a frustrated author to do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seth Greene has cracked the code and his 8 books have generated $5,504,985 in revenue WITHOUT hitting the NYT, WSJ, or any other \u201dreal\u201d best-seller lists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch this video, 4 Steps to Becoming a PROFITABLE Author, and learn his tricks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is it so hard to make money as an author? Books don\u2019t make much money on their own. Amazon sales may get you paid 30%-70%. Even 70% of $14.95 is only about $10. If you wanted to make $100,000 a year, you would have to sell 10,000 books. The average book (by a real publisher) on the shelves of Barnes &amp; Noble (pre-covid), only sells 250-300 it\u2019s the first year!!!. It will only sell 3,000 over its lifetime!&nbsp; Can you live on a few thousand dollars a year for the next ten years?&nbsp; I didn\u2019t think so. So what\u2019s a frustrated author to do? Seth Greene has cracked the code and his 8 books have generated $5,504,985 in revenue WITHOUT hitting the NYT, WSJ, or any other \u201dreal\u201d best-seller lists. Watch this video, 4 Steps to Becoming a PROFITABLE Author, and learn his tricks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"views":1054,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5976,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975\/revisions\/5976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}