Author and motivational speaker Jake Ducey discusses his primary revenue sources and business model with host Nathan Latka.
Opinion
Ducey: Vanity publishers like Balboa 'rip you off' with $3,900 packages
“A lot of, about Balboa and these companies, you know, for anyone listening, it, it's disheartening to see the self-publishing packages that are 39, 3900, and you get 10 books, they rip you off.”
Assertion Contradicted
Ducey: 'Into the Wind' is required curriculum in some LA school districts
“Yeah, I make more money still off Into the Wind than the other one, because Into the Wind, that's the self-published, is now required curriculum in school districts in, in Los Angeles, not in all of them, but in some of them, so I make more off that.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ducey sold 30,000 print copies of his self-published debut
“We sold about 30,000 in print.”
Disclosure
Ducey earned $100,000 in income from his self-published debut
“Oh man, from that book alone, I probably, I printed them myself and still do. So I put it back in, but I probably done it probably about maybe like a hundred, a 100,000.”
Disclosure
Ducey prints self-published books for 75 cents against $14.95 retail
“Listing price. I mean, it's, it says 1495, but I mean, if you self publish, I print them for 75 cents, 74 cents.”
Disclosure
Penguin Random House paid Ducey a $30,000 advance for his second book
“No, it was 30,000.”