Re:Building a Second Income Stream by Writing a Book
by netman21 on Monday March 13, 2023 @09:59PM
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I have written ten books, two trad published, the rest self published. Books sales are minimal usually 2,000 lifetime.
My income was primarily speaking fees at industry events (cybersecurity). Having a book to sign is always great to get more speaking gigs. All of that evaporated on March 11, 2020.
But I am still going to write books, because I enjoy writing books.
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Re:Building a Second Income Stream by Writing a Book
by ghaff on Monday March 13, 2023 @10:35PM
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For tech books, the benefit is mostly to be (excessively) seen as an "authority" on a topic. At least that's how it's been for me. Oh. He wrote that book on X. still do them but don't do the 250+ page books required by publishers.
Re:Building a Second Income Stream by Writing a Book
by zamnos on Monday March 13, 2023 @10:05PM
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It's 3 years (and two days) since. Have none of the speaking gigs come back?
Re:Building a Second Income Stream by Writing a Book
by chii on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @02:40AM
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I'd expect that given the state of the economy (with companies looking to shore up their finances and expecting a recession), the budget for conferences, paid for by businesses (whether attending, or sponsoring), are going to be drying up. Unfortunately, i think these conferences are the ones that bring in paid speakers.
The small, indie conferences would generally ask for volunteer speakers (at least, for small indie conferences that i have watched before), and so those could continue but not if the tickets are expensive, and also wouldn't bring in much revenue for the speakers generally. They are a labour of passion.