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Thanks also for the encouragement. I really am surprised about the dating stuff. I originally thought it was the affiliate program, like maybe AFF was saturated. Then I tried a few different programs, all with the same results (which means no results).

No, it's entirely free to publish on the Kindle. If you want to do a hard copy with an ISBN, you can use CreateSpace (also Amazon owned). They will assign you one of their ISBNs for free, or you can get one through them for about $10. They have pretty minimal costs to get a book printed and...

Thanks for the kind words. Obviously though I still need help with my editing after consuming 3 beers. I missed plenty of typos in my OP :p

By day, I am a fairly good technology writer who has authored many magazines articles, some blogs and a few books. There's a deeper, darker side to me though that few know of. I have an addiction. Knowledge is my high and education is my drug. I am just about to complete my second bachelors. As...

I would like to borrow your idea for a meet, but in Tokyo for BHW members on this side of the globe. I'll do a separate post shortly, but wanted to give the courtesy of letting you know I was borrowing your idea :D

As I mentioned in my thread on Kindle books, I wrote a Kindle book that became pretty popular on the topic of "mobile apps for profits". When Android first came out, I was among the first group of developers to release an app for it. I made some money, learned some tricks, and this is what I put...

I do this too. For the fiction I am trying my hand at now, I'm not using my real name. Anything controversial, I'd also avoid using my real name. Since I write for magazines and some other news outlets, attaching my name to anything too controversial could be a career killer. Create several pen...

Totally agree. The book cover is your main marketing tool when it comes to search results on Amazon. Make it interesting and professional. It may be the only chance you get to interest people in your book. I noticed also that many free books don't get reviewed. My assumption is that people...

I did a PR2 or higher 150 bookmarks in 24 hours. Provider was located in China.

There was a PM question about formatting for Kindle, and the following is what I use. The results look very good on Kindle readers and also devices like the iPad: Search Google for Amazon topic: A17W8UM0MMSQX6 Basically Amazon recommends: No page numbers since type in Kindle is fluid based...

A few months ago, I decided to try my hand at Kindle ebooks after reading how some regular Joes had made a killing with short stories and other fiction. I am a writer by profession, mostly doing print journalism. I wanted to find something that would allow me to write once and sell many times. I...

A 67% rating and comes from the UK but can't seem to write simple English? Think I'll pass. You need more than canned porn with a crappy watermark thrown over the video. For $15, I got my vid girl to do quite a lot to make it look much more high-end, and not like video spam.

I managed to get a very hot blonde to do a couple vids for me. After that, a bookmark blast, commenting on a few thousand websites, and 1,000 targeted emails. It's only been about 24 hours since I started putting the dominoes in place, but hopefully I'll see some results by the weekend. My...

Frankly, I'm still quite the noob when it comes to IM and SEO. I've been playing around to get a feel for it, and see what works for me. I've followed several of your threads, tried a few of your methods, and have made money directly from your advice. Lots of thanks and rep your way.

When I happened on this thread, I was already planning do release something on the Kindle. I took some tips from here though, including enrolling in the KDP program. I already had a book on my topic, albeit from a different perspective. I had been using it as a textbook for training classes I...

I've found plenty of Chinese ad and affiliate programs. The problem is getting paid. All that I have seen require some type of Chinese bank account to get money or something like UnionPay. Makes it kind of impossible unless you are in China.

There's no absolute way of course, but since I was never doing anything ground breaking, I never felt it was too risky to outsource it. By doing the visual and other media elements of the app myself, I retained control over that part of the process, so even if they took my idea and ran with it...

I've only ever used 1 programmer twice. The other programmers were all one-offs. They all came from vworker. If I can dig up some names, I'll PM you.

With the class of app you're talking, yeah, you're talking a lot of cash to create it. That's not something you're going to pop out in 2-4 weeks of dev. But I get the impression that this thread is more about the hit-and-run variety of apps, launched to the market, run their course, and die a...

I released a Dope Wars clone, for example, before there were any others on Android. Put some Facebook advertising behind it for the paid version. At it's high point, I earned about $30/day in US paid downloads. This was the one I did the ad version for China too. I used AdMob to for my in-app...