ChatGPT: a cure for writer's block

[trevord92]

Ignoring my time (obviously!) but am in profit.

Two paperbacks sold already = $5.41

Plus 71 cents royalties from pages read.

Average book "cost" under 6 cents and I've not published 100 yet.

Not millions yet but we're early days.

[GordonJ]

Originally Posted by trevord92

Ignoring my time (obviously!) but am in profit.
Two paperbacks sold already = $5.41
Plus 71 cents royalties from pages read.
Average book "cost" under 6 cents and I've not published 100 yet.
Not millions yet but we're early days.

More than before. Keep that in mind.

MORE THAN BEFORE.

Here's one nobody's heard before: Temporal Agglomeration. My definition: stolen from hierarchical clustering...meaning the work done on those projects in the marketplace, are the clusters to build upon...like the foundation, you don't have to keep building it, it is there.

So the time spent building the foundation (the process) increases in value as the rest of it gets built...or as we infopreneurs like to say, write it once and sell it forever.

It may have taken a day or more to learn the process, now it is reduced to minutes, or just hours. And as more DEMAND is uncovered, as in what pages are they reading, indicating an interest in THAT subject, provides clues as to what to produce next, so you have a built in way to SEE exactly what they are spending their time reading.

Temporal Agglomeration. A mouthful for sure. Not to be confused with the Deadwood episode, AMALGMATION AND CAPITAL.

As the DEMAND is discovered, the time shrinks to fulfill it and the profit increases as demand is met.

I should write a book. Opposite of Dan Kennedy NO B.S. series, mine would be YES, B.S. FOR FUN and PROFIT.

Gordon

[trevord92]

Hi Gordon

Thanks - Temporal Agglomeration sounds an interesting concept!

At the moment it's definitely laying the foundations:

Amazon Kindle (downloadable and a few for print, probably more in future) and the electronic version is Amazon only which gives me 5 days of free "sales" (test the water for popularity) and always free to anyone with Kindle Unlimited (small amount per page viewed)

The beauty is definitely write once sell lots - evergreen topics that hopefully should keep on selling.

[trevord92]

Kindle sales are ticking over - nothing spectacular yet but the money is paying for the book creation and all the blog posts I'm doing.

The d'oh! moment is paying attention to what happens when you publish a Kindle book - Amazon immediately expects you to produce a paperback version.

So, as of yesterday, that's what I'm doing.

A quick re-format of the book to a paperback page size, save the cover image at a larger file size and ask ChatGPT to write the blurb for the back cover. And use the Bing image I created for the author photo.

It takes about as long as the initial Kindle publish, maybe slightly longer as the rendering to check it looks OK takes a while.

Then it's published and anyone who prefers dead trees over electrons is happy.

And when someone clicks on the free book in the first 5 days of it being published (my choice of dates, just easier to remember to do it like that) they also have a print option.

So it's hopefully win-win!