Self-published e-book sold online
Published an e-book priced as an impulse purchase, expecting it to keep earning with no stock to manage.
At a glance
Estimated by a classifier that read the source. The bar shows how sure it was.
- Category
- Digital products93% surex
- Earns from
- One-time sales97% surex
- Startup cost (estimate)
- Under $100Low confidence53% surex
- Time it takes (estimate)
- Hands-off93% surex
- Where
- Online99% surex
- Coding
- No coding needed88% surex
Source
Hacker NewsComment by atgm in “Ask HN: Are you working on any side projects that make "small/passive" income?”, March 23, 2011
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