Internet Publishing Can Pay Off

An anonymous reader writes "Leander Kahney of Wired News has an article (Net Publishing Made Profitable) about how the publishers of the free, online newsletter TidBITS have hit the jackpot with their highly focused Take Control ebook series (nicely formatted PDFs that are easy to read on screen or print). Authors earn 50% royalties, and the books cost $5 or $10, with free updates. All the books out right now are about Mac topics, but maybe they'll branch out in the future."

Re:American stupidity or political correctness ?

[grolschie]

Dude you fail it. Even googlewar [googlewar.com] says so. ;-)

What???

[Anonymous Coward]

You mean all this time I've been doing it wrong by placing tiny classified ads?

Re:Doesn't Always Work

[MaineCoon]

Sales were so abysmal

So was the book. Kind of explains the sales, eh?

Re:Ignore This.

[Zorilla]

Actually, what usually happens is that somebody with a six-figure UID will reply to a user with a four-figure UID with this:

"You must be new here."

Disclaimer: I have a high six-figure UID

Re:Doesn't Always Work

[Anonymous Coward]

The sales were so abysmal he died from it *ducks*