Writing and selling a book is unlikely to be profitable.
But what if you wrote and sold three books? Your chances increase.
How about writing and selling twenty books? Now you’re likely to make significant profits. Just look at the success of the 20BooksTo50K® Facebook Group.
What if you took it to the extreme and wrote 1,000 books? With an efficient process, lots of discipline, and a dedicated team, it’s definitely possible. If you wrote and published a short book every week, you would have a thousand in twenty years. If you worked with three other writers, each putting out a book a week, you would reach 1,000 books in less than five years.
These days, you may even be able to put out four books a week by yourself with the aid of artificial intelligence tools. Now, I’m not saying that this is ethical or that I am doing it, but if the technology is already available and it’s legal, people WILL do it. It’s also worth noting that if someone uses artificial intelligence tools, it does not necessarily mean that the work will be of poor quality. Ultimately, it will be up to the seller platforms to prevent poor-quality works from being sold on their sites. It will also be up to readers to not buy those books if they don’t want to read them (that shouldn’t be too hard, should it?).
I used to follow an author named S.J. Scott. Between 2013 and 2020, he wrote over 50 books under the names Steve Scott or S.J. Scott. The books were short, to the point, and useful. He made a career out of writing and publishing several short books each year on various topics including decluttering, habits, goal setting, exercise, and budgeting. While 50 books is a far cry from 1,000, what S.J. Scott did was very much in the spirit of rapid releasing mini books.
Admittedly, “1,000” is just an arbitrary number to get the point across. I think an author can do quite well, even today, by writing and releasing quickly over a long period of time.
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