RE: Contest | 25-Word-Comment - Monkey Business | Upvote - 6 Steem
Hiring editors in the case of self-publishing...another expense that could never be recovered, if the artists don't live in an Anglo-Saxon country. In the case of publishing with Amazon, you should sell during the first day, because your e-book becomes buried after 24 hours by the tons of other e-books that arrive in the first page, covering yours. To not talk about the compulsory special VAT to be opened first than withdraw from Amazon (the R.S.I. considers you a professional freelancer writer, especially in my current country). Here in steemit, for good or for bad, there is always the possibility to participate to contests and in such cases you'll be read (the Venezolanos Concurso de Arte y Escritura and the Italian Digitaly are 2 big examples) and also can win the contest. My police novel had also a few readers here and there, even out of contests. To not forget your Monkey Business contest too! Personally, I find it better than nothing. I don't bother if I don't have thousands of readers, as I'm having no expenses here, no losses🤗
I heard from a lady, Steemian, she had 3 accounts very active and published, what you have to do first is publishing some books (9000 or 12500 words) you can refer to that seems to work.
I also know someone who for a longer time gave away one free ebook per month. It was a way to attract customers.
It's cheaper to let some friends read and read your own text back after 1 day, next 3 days and one week later. Reading out loud helps as well.
Yes, I have heard too, but I live in a geographic area where people don't read even in their mother tongue...so imagine them reading in Spanish or Italian😂😂😂😂Here mobiles (games, movies, and similar) took also the place of books😂😂😂😂