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#63 Hugh Howey: Winning at the Self-publishing Game

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Ia, Thing of Choice Is Better Than Economies of Scale

When wool took off, i was working in a bookstore and this short story id wrote went up the charts. And when the novel hit the york times best soller list as a self published epoch, i started getting a lot of interest from agent on and publishers. By the time we got a six figure offers, i was making six figures a month just on the e book sales. by the time a publisher finally made a seven figure offer and offered over a million dollars for the series, i'd already made a million dollars of my own. Ia, thing of choice is better than economies of scale.

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