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Writing, Independence, And Selling Books Direct With Derek Sivers

The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers

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Are You a Programmer?

i've made a little over half a million dollars selling them directly to fans on my sight. But if i would have sold those same books through amazon, instead of 500 thousand dollars, it have been 100 thousand dollars. Now i give all of my profits to charity. And the charity that i use is called the against malaria foundation. It costs about two thousand dollars to literally save a life. For every two thousand dollars donated, one person will not die of malaria that would have died if were not doing what they do. That's somebody who dies if you don't donate two thousand dollars. Usto do the one more reason why i think it's so important to try to capture

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