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Is It Worth Investing Money Into Free Content

I can create content, my problem was that people weren’t willing to support my projects directly.

I wrote two Lithuanian books by myself and actually paid money to voice them and then I put them on YouTube. So I invested 200€ for 2 audio books and put them onto YouTube.

All I got back was comments “nice book, will there be more?” and bunch of likes.

My YouTube channel was not monetized.

So, if you are thinking about investing money into content that you will be giving for free on YouTube or any other platform – I suggest you don’t do it, unless you don’t want return on the investment.

You could invest 1000000€ into piece of content and give it away, but you wouldn’t basically earn nothing back from YouTube.

Most people do not earn from YouTube as their content is not monetized, or their monetized content doesn’t get much views and the ad return is ridiculously low.

If you have 200€, create a product that you will sell instead of giving it away for free. On YouTube you will get views, but views =/= money back.

Low Effort Kindle Books – Is It A Viable Business?

Back in the day when I started writing kindle books there was no Gemini or other AI that could write them for me. So I wrote them myself.

For anyone wondering if writing low effort kindle books is a profitable business, I can say it’s not unless you believe 2€ a month is huge profit.

I have 100+ minibooks and they just make me 2€ a month every month. Writing more books didn’t result in a bigger amount of money.

I also tried selling sudoku puzzles, journals – they didn’t sell at all.

Those people who claim that you can sell low content books are full of lies, you can’t.

I haven’t tried, but making one good book that you actually plot and write for yourself, might be better. I didn’t write long good books for kindle, but I assume it would be better than spamming the market with low effort lame content.

Also don’t write books with AI, kindle is full of AI books, readers sense that and don’t buy them.

Making 100 minibooks is actually more work than making one good book.

But when your minibook is 0.99€ from which you get just 30 cents then even marketing of them is a waste of money.

If I would ever want to work on Kindle I would write one GOOD book and market it with ads and price it like 9-12€ for 75% profit.

Amazon Kindle doesn’t market your book for free, unless it already has sales, good reviews.

I would essentially give the book away for free to get reviews, you can do 7 day promote once a year or something like that.