[asicsp]

I write ebooks, which is currently my sole source of income (which is not for everybody as my living style in this part of the world needs about $150 a month).

I use leanpub/gumroad to sell them. I'm not good at marketing and find it difficult to adapt advice from articles I've read on that topic. Whenever I publish a new book, I put them up for free for a few days and I still get paid as both leanpub/gumroad allows paying more than the price set.

I post about my books on reddit/hn/twitter and other social sites. Getting attention is hit/miss, for example my recent book had good response on https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/jognf5/i_wrote_a_cook... but not much here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25006829

I'm active on stackoverflow and reddit subs related to programming. I've had readers thanking me for the help and some have mentioned that they found out my books from my profile. And I learn a lot too from trying to answer questions.

Based on my experience, the biggest lesson I'd say is not giving up.