Sup gang,
I'm looking to court ideas. As I seem to have a lot of free time at my job, and the whole eCommerce doesn't take up any of my time at all AND my few website ideas are still percolating, trying to drive traffic - i decided to source some freelance writing gigs off Elance and oDesk (i'm a writer by trade).
Manage to make a bit of money - $80 thursday, $75 friday, $20 saturday, $50 yesterday. But it was a LOT of work (like hours and hours) and the pay is SHIT. Total F*cking joke - everyone is undercut by Indian's and Philipinos.
However I noticed a few contracts for writers to write erotic short stories. Of course the pay is a pittance but I got in touch with one of the contractors and we got to talking on Skype.
No offence to him, the guy sounds like a bum (much like me!) but he has a plan to start selling eBooks with erotic shot-stories he sources off oDesk.
He pays something like $20 for a 10,000 word story (which is a joke!) but told me that as his business grew he hopes money for his writers will also grow. His got barely any disposable income to pay anyone, by the way, but the whole idea had me massively intrigued.
Is this a profitable niche? I know that Shades of Gray has exposed how much chicks dig smut - not to mention that romance is one of the biggest selling genres in the world - but I have no experience in this so I wouldn't know.
My idea would be to get a bunch of writers to submit 3,500-4,000 word chick-porn written in text and then go about the self-publishing route to put the title out on Amazon.
There seem to be PLENTY of different people on oDesk running this racket, and ofcourse i'm here to be on the PRODUCER side of the equation, not the donkey-side - so I want to put my own advert up and call for submissions.
Anyone have any thoughts, insights into this idea? Anyone done eBook self-publishing before via Amazon?
How's the market looking? Do you envisage any problems for me?
Thanks,
Kuz
I'm looking to court ideas. As I seem to have a lot of free time at my job, and the whole eCommerce doesn't take up any of my time at all AND my few website ideas are still percolating, trying to drive traffic - i decided to source some freelance writing gigs off Elance and oDesk (i'm a writer by trade).
Manage to make a bit of money - $80 thursday, $75 friday, $20 saturday, $50 yesterday. But it was a LOT of work (like hours and hours) and the pay is SHIT. Total F*cking joke - everyone is undercut by Indian's and Philipinos.
However I noticed a few contracts for writers to write erotic short stories. Of course the pay is a pittance but I got in touch with one of the contractors and we got to talking on Skype.
No offence to him, the guy sounds like a bum (much like me!) but he has a plan to start selling eBooks with erotic shot-stories he sources off oDesk.
He pays something like $20 for a 10,000 word story (which is a joke!) but told me that as his business grew he hopes money for his writers will also grow. His got barely any disposable income to pay anyone, by the way, but the whole idea had me massively intrigued.
Is this a profitable niche? I know that Shades of Gray has exposed how much chicks dig smut - not to mention that romance is one of the biggest selling genres in the world - but I have no experience in this so I wouldn't know.
My idea would be to get a bunch of writers to submit 3,500-4,000 word chick-porn written in text and then go about the self-publishing route to put the title out on Amazon.
There seem to be PLENTY of different people on oDesk running this racket, and ofcourse i'm here to be on the PRODUCER side of the equation, not the donkey-side - so I want to put my own advert up and call for submissions.
Anyone have any thoughts, insights into this idea? Anyone done eBook self-publishing before via Amazon?
How's the market looking? Do you envisage any problems for me?
Thanks,
Kuz
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