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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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
Ducey sold 15,000 eBook copies of his self-published debut
“In online, we'd probably done like, it's probably done half of that in eBooks or so.”
Ducey has sold around 20,000 copies of 'The Purpose Principles'
“It's about at that same, I'm about at 20 right now.”