Possible Ways of Growing Your Income Once you've started to monetize, one question will be looming on the horizon whenever you think strategically about your self-publishing venture: 'How can I…
"We are two historians and each week we are telling one another a story from history". That's the ever same opening of one of my favourite podcasts, Zeitsprung ('leap in…
Eric Feng, founder and ex venture capitalist, names audience-monetizing creators, those who I call 'self-publishers', "Digitally Native Vertical Creators or DNVCs". His Medium blogpost on new media platforms starts with…
Without doubt, Substack currently is the hottest monetization platform for paywalled and self-published writing. Even the biggest legacy media took notice. "Reporters are leaving newsrooms for newsletters, their own ‘mini…
A niche inside a niche (inside a niche) Some weeks ago, Taste, a digital magazine for "the new home cook", published a blogpost on creators publishing food media as a…
Lenny Rachitsky (Ex-Airbnb manager) published a nicely designed set of charts ("How I launched a Paid Newsletter"). An easily digestable 67-clicks-guide about a (up to now) successfull launch of a…
Is a company with a 35 people headcount, with a bank reserve of more than US$1m and a six-figure annual operating profit still a self-publishing business? There is a good…
With OnlyFans, sex workers have found a fascinating way of getting paid for posting and chatting and doing all those things, social media allows you to do. Except that conventional…
My favourite self-publisher might not even be seen as being a creator or self-publisher at all in the common understanding. The Browser is a daily newsletter curated and edited by…
For me, the most exciting facet in the world of self-publishing is the incredible variety of topics and formats of self-publishing projects. From mere fun to serious in depth analysis,…