Sad. I did $403k last month as an independent writer. All analog publishing. None of it from KDP. Be careful what advice you listen to.

That's great for you. But the average full time author of books in the UK earned below minimum wage a few years ago, and that's fairly typical for developed countries. It's a profession that very heavily skews towards a tiny proportion of top earners.

And I made $15million last month as a lottery winner.

Surely you realize that this is not at all the typical experience for independent writers, though.

It's not the typical experience for traditionally published writers either.

That's awesome. As an author myself, I'd love to hear more.

Also note, that you are an outlier. (Congrats!) Folks listening to you should not expect those results.

Pretty sure it's just fantasy, it's easy to find his book from his comments. He has <5k followers and minimal engagement on any social media platform, his book does not have great reviews nor many of them on goodreads(150 reviews for a book that would have had to sell almost 25k copies in a month to get those numbers).

Any conversation I've found in related subreddits seems negative.

Don’t tell me, if I buy your book I can learn how to do it too?

What books did you write? And what do you mean by "analog publishing?"

Do you feel fulfilled?

Yes.

What are your books about? Fiction or non- ?

Non-fiction

Cool idea and implementation. Great job.

I personally hand draw diagrams and then recreate them in Balsamiq (old school).

I, myself, won't use it because there's a lot of creation and innovation that happens in the transition phase when going from hand-drawn sketches to creating the diagrams.

That's called PayPal

How about you help build that if you want that?

Now that's copywriting

I agree. Not everything has to be a conspiracy. Microsoft looked at a $10m+/year cost center, and deemed it unnecessary (which it arguably was), and snipped it.

I can just imagine the meeting of the people who created the 11 page how to use this website pdf. Awful.

I actually feel for these people. They know the site is awful and have no way to improve it except to make a manual.

Those people are trying to help the users who have been screwed by the managers who made the website terrible with no regard for anyone arguing against it

The real problem is letting the marketers and the "we're proud of ourselves!" sort take full control. I imagine the goal is "we have all these things under one roof!".

Good grief.

You can still have the same framework/layout. EG, support, products, etc. But you can do it under "categories". For example, "VMware by Broadcom" or some such blather.

And all support, all webpages, are only vmware related in that category.

But really, transitioning vmware's webpages to this is just dumb. What a waste of time. Just use vmware's website with a "by broadcom" in the banner, and who the hell cares.

So juvenile. That little bit of brand recoginition, oh it's so important.

Yeah, it's so important that it's not LSI, but broadcom in the firmware when my server boots now? Firmwares all need to have name changes?

I'm one of the suckers who bought it for $10k in 2021 and waited around.

It wasn't worth it until the most recent update. It no longer drives like a grandma. It's smooth and useful.

Whelp, there goes my afternoon.

It's probably added $30k/day in revenue. Meanwhile Cyberduck gets $30/day via donations.