Hello, dear readers of dohodinet.ru. There is an opinion that it is impossible for a writer to make money on the Internet if he is not promoted. This is partly true. It will be a long time before an aspiring writer or poet can earn enough money for his works to support his family. Writing is an investment in the future.
Perhaps you will become famous in the second half of your life, closer to old age, or only after death and enrich your descendants. But this should not stop a person with a thirst to convey his experience to the world in his creations. Moreover, there are very real actions that a novice creator can take in order to get the first little money and moral satisfaction from the reader’s assessment of his work.
How much do writers earn in Russia?
A writer’s earnings depend on how many of his books are sold, in what circulations and what commission he pays for the publishing house’s work.
You can also make money by selling licensed products related to your books, allowing other authors to make films based on them, draw comics and use your characters or interesting creative finds.
Of course, it is unlikely that a novice writer’s first book will immediately be filmed, especially if you write textbooks or children’s poems. But there are also opportunities for such people to make money from books. For example, by publishing them on sites where they pay for views of your work.
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Platforms where they pay for viewing books
Such sites are divided into 2 types: samizdat and closed electronic libraries .
On services like samizdat, owners make money from advertising that users view while leafing through the author’s book, and he himself receives money from advertisers.
In an electronic library, users buy monthly or annual subscriptions, and if after that they become interested in your books, you are given a portion of the money they paid.
Let's look at some of the most popular of these services:
Service 1. Bookmate.com
Bookmate.com is an electronic library with which any author can enter into an agreement to add his book to its collection.
Viewing library materials is not available to users who have not paid for a subscription. But even subscription buyers will not be able to copy materials from your book and publish it without your permission. This creates maximum copyright protection where you can also sell eBooks to readers who are not subscribers to that library.
The cost of a monthly subscription is 150 rubles . The service takes 75 of them for itself, and divides the rest among the authors in whom the subscriber was interested.
It seems that the money is small, but many famous authors collaborate with this library. After all, the more people are interested in your books, the more impressive the royalties will become. As with almost any way to make money from writing.
Service 2. Zelluloza.ru
For each chapter of your work published on this site, the service will pay you 10 rubles . True, a commission of up to 50% for beginning authors.
Prolific writers can reduce their commission by up to 20%.
The main advantage of the service is that you can ask your readers to pay for the continuation. Each reader has the opportunity to donate from 100 rubles. This money will go to the author’s account if he manages to write a new chapter before the deadline set by the writer. Such a stimulation of creativity.
Service 3. Litres.ru
Here the author can publish his works and receive money for viewing advertisements shown to readers in parallel with his work. True, up to 70% of your earnings will be the service’s commission , but this is better than publishing your work on resources where they don’t pay for viewing it at all.
How to become a popular writer
First of all, you need to decide on the genre of the book and understand who the potential buyer will be, and based on this information, advertise and promote the book. This can be done in the following ways:
- Maintain a personal blog or website on the Internet, sell a book through it, communicate with fans.
- Organize a meeting with fans at a library, bookstore or other public place. Focus on the city where the event will take place.
- Give an interview to a newspaper and publish it on a blog or website.
- Organizing a reading in the park will help attract new people.
In general, focus on the readership and, based on this, choose advertising methods and meeting places.
Services where you can put up an e-book for sale
If you already have a finished book that is not publicly available, you can try to sell it. The only thing is that you will have to write an exciting blurb for the book yourself, if you want - draw a beautiful cover, and do the advertising of your work yourself. In this case, you alone will be responsible for selling your book.
You can get started with Amazon . The commission there ranges from 30 to 65% . The service is popular among writers, as it is visited by about 300 million potential buyers every day.
They say that if you write on popular topics and promote the book on social media. networks $1000 from sales . The most popular topics are psychology and various educational master classes.
In parallel, the book can be published on Amazon analogues, for example, on the website Plati.ru .
Instead of posting an e-book on one of these services, you can try contacting the publisher. If he is interested in your book, there is a chance that it will be published and you, although a novice author, will already be able to leave an autograph for your mother on your book. However, commercially this idea is not so profitable.
They say that Russian publishing houses deceive authors by releasing books in larger quantities than specified in the contract, and without paying money for their sale.
In addition, the publisher's commission is larger than, for example, Amazon's fee. This is due to the fact that the publishing house bears all the costs of printing and selling book products.
Today, successful authors sell millions of copies of their books on their own online. Readers' interest in printed publications is fading.
How long does it take to write a book?
Less than you think. The main thing is to start!
A book that is written to sell products can be written in 1-3 evenings.
In simple words, it's not that difficult. Everything is described in this article. Just take it and put it into practice.
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Literary competitions
There are many literary competitions with prize funds where an aspiring author can try his hand at writing.
The disadvantage of participating in them is that you will need to write on a strictly defined topic, sometimes even according to a script drawn up by someone.
Often the time for writing is limited, and it is prohibited to offer works already published somewhere for participation in the competition. The volume of stories should be small so that it is convenient for readers and jury members to read the works of all competitors.
The obvious financial disadvantage is that only the winner receives a cash prize . The rest of the writers work for free, honing their skills and introducing readers to their work. Actually, these are the advantages of participating in the competition.
A strict time limit will force you to write even if you are in writer's block. And interest in a specific topic will attract the reader to your work. You will finally be able to get your stories or children's poems recommended, even if you haven't managed to interest anyone in them before.
In addition, you can be proud of a victory or a prize place in a competition, the memories of this will inspire, and information about your exploits can be shared with the reader on your personal website, increasing your prestige.
Denis Kaplunov “Business copywriting. How to write serious texts for serious people"
The publication presents its audience in the form of a huge number of examples and exercises with practically useful information on how to create catchy and lively texts.
Therefore, the book will become an invaluable tool for advertising authors, writers, as well as all those who want to learn how to write texts that are impossible to put down. The author places special emphasis on the fact that the text must have not only charisma, but also meet certain mandatory characteristics. In his work, D. Kaplunov dwells on each of them in detail, helping his audience acquire skills in writing truly high-quality commercial texts, reminding that a business text cannot be boring, voluminous, faceless and “watery”, and a serious reader is always able to incriminate the author in a lie, notice his clownery and uncertainty.
Writing books instead of other writers
Of course, most of us want to write a brilliant masterpiece and become famous for it under our own name.
However, if you need money and have some experience in writing, you can try to write some kind of tabloid detective story for one of the popular writers .
This way you won’t become famous, but you can make money on books in the shortest possible time. Making do on their own, even with all the desire, no writer will be able to publish dozens of books a year. Therefore, some popular authors are constantly hiring fresh talent to do work for them.
To get such a job, look for vacancies for “writer” and the like on employment sites .
The text of the vacancy usually does not say that you will write books for another author and what exactly the topic will be, but at the interview this will become known, as well as the amount of the fee. They say you can get an average of $1,000 for one book.
Own blog
A blog gives a writer such creative freedom that none of the methods listed above provides. You can publish expert articles, your notes about life, and at the same time some of your creativity.
The only question is: will a lot of people be interested in reading this so that you can make money by monetizing your blog? It will not be possible for a novice writer to gain a wide audience of readers right away, especially if there is no money for promotion.
However, the good news is that reading your blog is enjoyable even for yourself. In any case, he will bring you pleasure and self-realization, even if he does not give you money.
Through a personal blog you can meet your loyal reader, potential employer or publisher. The site will inspire you to write even in difficult life times and give you the opportunity to proudly call yourself a writer, even if your enthusiasm is not yet enough for a full-fledged book or collection of poems.
Mark Schaefer, Marketing on Twitter. Use a tool that many people underestimate"
The main advantage of this publication is that it will allow you to learn what you really need about Twitter in a few hours.
The book is ideal for all those who do not have time to delve into the nuances of new media, but they need both to promote their business and a full-fledged business tool for this. Admittedly, most people who come across Twitter are simply perplexed about what it can do for them. That's why Markus Schaefer's book, How He Grows His Business Through Social Media Like Twitter, will be a huge help to entrepreneurs who are looking for simple but effective strategies for growing their business.
