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Side Hustle School

#1830 - Self-Published Kindle Books Produce Full-Time Income

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Business, Side Hustle, Small Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship,, Entrepreneurship

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

A government administrator builds an offramp to his day job by self-publishing books using Kindle Direct Publishing.   

Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.

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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.


Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com

Email: team@sidehustleschool.com

Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions

Connect on Instagram: @193countries

Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com

Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com


If you're enjoying the show, please pass it along! It's free and has been published every single day since January 1, 2017. We're also very grateful for your five-star ratings—it shows that people are listening and looking forward to new episodes. 😎 🙏🏼 


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0:00.0

Many of us are already planning our New Year's resolutions to work out more in 2023.

0:04.4

But let's face it, they rarely stick.

0:06.6

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0:08.6

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0:13.1

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0:17.3

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0:20.7

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0:25.6

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0:38.2

In the first episode of the year, I mentioned that we're going to have a $1000 giveaway

0:42.1

for one listener this year who starts an income generating project.

0:46.0

Yesterday was our first episode of the first $1000 series. In case you missed it,

0:51.1

it's all about how somebody makes their first $1000. So that's a new series we're going to

0:55.4

run. I believe once a week, at least for the next few months, we'll see how listeners enjoy it.

1:00.3

But just to mention that throughout the year, I'm going to refer back to this giveaway,

1:04.2

the $1000 giveaway. I'll explain more as we go along how it works.

1:07.8

But basically, if you start a money-making project in 2022, you are eligible.

1:12.8

And that's really all you need to know for now. So stay tuned for more.

1:16.7

And today, we're going to talk about this self-published Kindle book empire.

1:21.9

I read an article in the New Yorker recently that was all about how the book publishing

1:25.9

industry has changed. Kind of been response to the development and advancement of Amazon's Kindle

1:31.0

Direct Publishing. And especially in the world of genre fiction, romance, sci-fi, thrillers,

1:37.4

etc. Some authors now produce multiple books a year. And they make other decisions like

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