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My current circumstances currently prevent me from working full time. And I also need to make to $8000 in the upcoming months to pay my family's bills. I'm good at writing. I also love research and have what it takes to produce new ideas/strategies in entrepreneurship. I thought about building my audience first through writing articles on Medium, but people didn't show up. Then I thought about writing free ebooks then switching to paid ones, but I don't know how I should build my audience. What should I do?

The three main online stores that sell eBooks are Amazon's Kindle Store, Barnes & Noble's Nook Store, and Apple's iBook store. Authors can also sell their books directly to consumers on their own websites. Since 74% of all eBooks are sold on Amazon, it is often the first or only place new authors think of to sell their work. And there are a lot of benefits to selling on Amazon. On the flip side, there are so many books selling on Amazon, including those from unknown new authors, that it can be hard to stand out from the crowd. Amazon demands that you exclusively sell your book through them if you want to take advantage of many benefits, such as the Kindle Lending Library and Kindle Unlimited. The biggest disadvantage of selling with Amazon, for many, is that they just do not like the way Amazon treats its authors. The bottom line is that you may sell more books on Amazon, but some authors do not feel like that is a good enough reason to publish there. Once you've decided where to sell your eBook, you're not done making decisions. You must decide whether to create and upload your eBook all on your own, or to pay an epublishing service or distributor to do it for you. For fees of $149 or more, these services can format your book and upload it to multiple different eBook stores. More than half of those is traditionally published authors. So, only around 1% of all the people self-publishing eBooks are making much money on it. One approach for ending up with more money in your pocket is to keep your investment low, so that even if sales are modest, you keep some profit. Others minimize their time investment by outsourcing the cover art or even the content. If your dream is to delight readers with your imaginative novel or win a literary award, you are not going to dash out an outline and hire a low-cost overseas writer to flesh it out. In the end, the answer is that you can make a living self-publishing eBook, but like a lot of business ventures, most people who try it do not cash in.
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