People don't pay for these for a reason! |
Back in the summer of 2009, I noticed something about
Borders inventory of music books.
Without thinking, I picked up coffee table books loaded with vivid color
pics of just about every relevant recording artist from the 1950s to present –
for less than $10 and weighing about as much as a domestic cat.
I couldn’t quite figure it out at first until I remembered
my Library Assistant training years before.
Books that refer to the deceased in present tense must be sold or
destroyed immediately. I was still in
shock over MJ’s passing and so badly wanted for him to be chilling on an island
somewhere. The drastically reduced (75%
reduction from original list price) book was confirmation this was not going to
happen.
So as I’m getting more into freelance writing, I realize
that the death of content writing companies, paying guest blog posts and other
mediums do not get the same homegoing.
Sometimes, the only way that people know a site is no longer in business
is through a discussion forum.
Occasionally, there might be a first-person account about a writer
getting stiffed.
However, I’d like to know why I am still paying to find out
that Squidoo, Helium and Yahoo Voices are accepting content. Even worse, is the addition of places like
Content Authority that pays something like $0.002 per word and seldom accept
submissions? In other words, things you
can find out for free.
Stephen Davies has some good information in his writing
books but I got burned (again) last year when he mentioned through his LinkedIn
group that his writing book had been updated.
It’s one thing to have limited uploads but to see Suite 101 as a
prospect in 2015 is a bit disappointing.
So should this be a rule when selling books that relate to
e-commerce? Some say that things change
so fast it’s impossible to keep up. On
the other hand, $5-7 for an e-book can mean a lot to someone on the financial
rebound.
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