bitmason

So are you not going to edit the book? Or just have a friend do a cursory job for free? How are you going to promote the book so people know about it? Of course, you don't have to do any of those things to get an ebook out there but getting a quality ebook out there and marketing it are something else again.

Yeah, I've heard this one before. A few authors do have decent speaking gigs (often for keynotes and things like that) but they're the exception. And those who can make money this way are already doing it. The whole idea that there's some huge untapped pot of money in live performances (for reading, music, or whatever) is pretty silly.