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The Empowerment Of Selling Books Direct To Your Readers With Steve Pieper

The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers

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How to Make a Living Online as an Author

There just aren't enough opportunities over the course of a year that you can really make a living off of just selling in-person physical copies at least if there's somebody doing that I haven't met them. The folks who are selling boatloads of physical copies every single day are doing that mainly digitally they're mainly using the advertising marketing principles involved in direct sales and aiming them at physical copy sales so I don't there's a test case for somebody who's doing that very successfully at scale with physical copies and only in-person appearances to pick their brain on how they done it yeah. "To me sitting at a conventional day is more terrifying than trying to build something online"

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