Maybe I should give writing a try.”Īfter checking out the self-help section in the Kindle store, I noticed how godawful the writing was. After reading an article on Kindle authors and how their income was pretty much passive after the book launched, I thought, “What the hell.
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I was grinding out 70 hours a week in an office with no sunlight, focused on becoming a senior associate and eventual partner.īy the time I was 24 years old, I was bored and unhappy. Notes #2: We don’t reveal the author’s identity on purpose as to not screw him over.īefore my life as a semi-famous, best-selling self-help Kindle author, I was an corporate cog in the wheel with a meaningless graduate degree. To be notified when that post is ready, enter your email below.
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We’ll announce the hilarious results in next week’s post. Note #1: To prove just how easy it is to game Amazon, we spent a week using the tactics learned in this interview to create our own best selling Kindle book. So here it is, without further ado: one man’s story of how he became a Kindle Gold Rusher. But then, to see the guy in our story make a ton of money selling “eh” books, the hippie inside me thinks that’s f-ed up.īut the capitalist part of me? He’s jacked up and already scheming a way to become a rich as hell Kindle “author.”īut hey, there’s plenty of room in this world for both Hoobastank and The Beatles…so who am I to judge. Henry David Thoreau locked himself in a cabin for two years to create this masterpiece. Part of me (about 95%) is disillusioned by this story, while the other part is pumped. Instead, he has a team of outsourced writers and creatives who pump out dozens of books a year to game Amazon and dominate various book categories. Except for one thing: he doesn’t actually write the books he publishes.
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On the surface it’s a badass story of success: a young professional quits his job, becomes a self-published author, and earns six figures per year. He’s 26 years old, sells 6,000 books a month, and nets $150,000+ a year. In this week’s story, we hear from one of the top selling Kindle Gold Rushers. Some of them make hundreds of thousands of dollars selling ebooks on niche categories. So there’s a group of people who make a living churning out dozens of lowbrow Kindle books a month.
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This month’s theme for The Hustle is people who game the system.