I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction books

Re:I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction... by silisili on Thursday April 28, 2022 @01:00AM (#31188921)

Passive is the opposite of active, I get the definition. Something you're no longer really actively working on that keeps making money. I'm jealous, I'd love to have such an idea.

But this seems different -so far-. This is more akin to building 80 money printing machines that each print a certain amount of money. They may work forever, or die in 6 months, or not work at all.

I guess my entire point is that this is a monumental amount of seemingly continuing effort. It's simply too early to call it passive IMO.

However, dates are missing here. If OP wrote his last book 5 years ago and is collecting this income each year, I'll gladly eat crow.

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Re:I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction... by greglim81 on Thursday April 28, 2022 @01:10AM (#31188964)

Its mainly jsut about eight books that bring in majority of the income. Amazon doesn't allow authors to delete unpublished books, thus showing 80.

you can check out the active books here:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=greg+lim&ref=nb_sb_noss

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Re:I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction... by yardstick on Thursday April 28, 2022 @03:39AM (#31189759)

Useful clarification!

Would also be interesting to see what your sales tail is like… are some of your books still selling decently several years after publishing?

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Re:I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction... by greglim81 on Thursday April 28, 2022 @05:22AM (#31190364)

So far for April: From Amazon $2,064.81 From Gumroad $384.96

There's also Smashwords & Ingramspark as well but I won't share those for now.

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Re:I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction... by all2 on Thursday April 28, 2022 @03:16AM (#31189611)

> This is more akin to building 80 money printing machines that each print a certain amount of money.

We should cut out the middle man -- and the middle step -- and just print money. We can start 100 digital currency initiatives and play the lottery, one of them is bound to take off...

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