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There's a graph with 3 items per time period and no legend. And nothing about profit vs revenue really, how much did each book cost vs profit?

Apart from that, very informative.

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The net profit is dependent on me paying taxes, social security, and insurance. Since I also program it's hard to say exactly how much net it is. Gumroad fees are explained on their site[0]. There were no ad costs.

If I should pay my time as a business, it would be a loss.

[0] https://gumroad.com/pricing

I deliberately haven't been tracking my time spent writing my book because it would be super depressing to see an hourly rate less than minimum wage. But without knowing that number it's still super exciting to get an email saying I sold a copy, and to see a payment arrive every month. It's like free money!

Yep, same here. I mean maybe you don't do it again, but doing it once has a lot of benefits beyond money.

Maybe it's like giving birth and you forget how painful it is after a few years...

Thanks, so about 10%. You're selling ebooks, not p(aper)books, right?

Costs a lot of time to become famous enough to make money I suppose

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