Re:Writing a software book and making over $100k
by eafkuor on Monday July 13, 2020 @09:27AM
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Oh man, I completely agree with you. People here or on reddit who are constantly talking about US salaries and cost of life forget that there's other parts of the world where people are programmers.
I live in Poland and a one-off 100k USD as a side income in a year would absolutely change my life. I am _not_ exaggerating.
Re:Writing a software book and making over $100k
by thesz on Monday July 13, 2020 @10:17AM
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US dollar is a prefix currency sign. All your dollar sums should look like $<sum> (Euro is also prefix, BTW). Compare [1] and [2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_leu#List_of_current_b...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_one-hundred-doll...
Sorry for nitpicking, it really bothers me when such small and easily correctable error continues.
I'm not living in the US. I live in Romania. In Europe, salaries are not as high as the ones in California. But then, even in the US, the Silicon Valley salaries are much higher than in other states.
The great thing about selling products is that there is no upper boundary to how much money you can make. So, over time, you can end up making 250k $ from a single book.
The advantage of passive income is that you can use your time to create new products, which, in turn, can generate more income. It's not easy, but it's not impossible either.