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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kannik" data-source="post: 7659214" data-attributes="member: 984">I've enjoyed this conversation and it's made me wonder about my own e-publishing experience... what kind of "salary" did I make out of it?  So I did a back of the envelope calc and thought I'd present it here just to add more data/another experience to the mix:Caveats:  <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I wrote these without the intention of making a living from it</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I already was familiar with desktop publishing, graphic layout, writing, and more (I am an architect by day)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I already had access to various softwares</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I did very little promotion</li> </ul>Over the three supplements I have written/sold online, I have received about 400 bucks (net payout, after e-tailer costs taken out).  I put in probably 20ish hours on each one, so let's call it 75 hours total to give it a fudge factor (again, as I wasn't intending to make a living, I didn't track hours at all, and worked on it here and there).  That places it at about $5.33 per hour, and perhaps less if my time recollection is really off.  In total, it's about 10,500 words of "real" writing, which equates to $0.038 per word.For me it was a fun side project and so I'm chuffed with how well they have done (though I'd like them to be even more widely known, of course!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />).  To those who have turned it into a living, my hats off to you!peace,Kannik</blockquote>

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