Inspiration For Those Who Wish To Self-Publish :)

From 3 Businesses To Start Under $1,000:

3. Become a self-published author. The prevailing wisdom about writing for a career is that it's not a good move because it's too hard to become a published author and too low-paying if you're self-published.

Once again, it doesn't have to be that way if you take the right approach.

For example, Sean Platt and David Wright wanted to be successful authors, but they also didn't want to go through the hassle of finding an agent, landing a book deal, and working for a few years before their book was printed.

Instead, they decided to self-publish their thrilling horror story Yesterday's Gone as an Amazon Kindle ebook series. The authors chose a series rather than a whole book because they knew that they could publish short episodes much faster than an entire book. Additionally, they figured that more people would buy individual episodes for $0.99 and then upgrade to the whole series if they enjoyed the first episode.

The strategy paid off. The writers spent a few months creating the first episodes and, as expected, more people decided to purchase the cheap episode before upgrading to the full season. Even better, once the series got rolling Amazon started promoting it as a recommended product to their millions of customers.

Six months after launching, the series had more than 100 5-star reviews on Amazon.