Self-Publishing Non-Fiction with David Kadavy
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English - September 11, 2020 03:18 - 1 hour - 54.4 MB - ★★★★ - 170 ratingsPhilosophy Society & Culture Science Social Sciences ideology media philosophy politics religion technology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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I spoke with David Kadavy about what he's learning self-publishing non-fiction books. Really practical and useful for anyone thinking about writing a book. He shares a lot of insider knowledge on Amazon's publishing system, whether and how you should use paid ads, and much more. Check out his work at https://kadavy.net/ and follow him on Twitter at @kadavy.
I want to encourage people to publish a book tonight. I actually did this. You can put whatever name you want in the author field, you can publish a 500-word anything tonight, you can run some ads on it, you can try to get a friend to buy it. See what happens, watch your ranking, go through the process. You can unpublish it, if you want. But once you go through that process and once you see your book up on Amazon and you're like, that was scary easy. It really gets your gears going. I have books that are 4,000 words. I've got how to write a book. It's available as a free blog post, but it still makes me thousands of dollars.
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