This is a YouTube video titled "The Hidden Math Behind Successful Indie Books" containing a monologue or single-speaker discussion from January 7, 2025, exploring the financial potential and risks of publishing indie books, including the economics of book sales and reader lifetime value. The excerpt does not indicate multiple speakers or the involvement of Nicolas Cole.
Okay. Just to entertain the shiny object. There's part of me that's like, what is the real cost to test that idea? Couple grand. Couple grand a month maybe. And then you could put out 12 books, like one a month. And you get a year of data. And if you're wrong, you burn. I don't know, 20, 30, 40, 50 grand. If you're right, that's like an entire new business. Because when one of those pops, what naturally happens is then all of the readers go, well, I really liked that. What are the other books in this subcategory? LTV gets longer or longer. Dude, when you see the math on these books, it's mind blowing. So what is the math on these books? Just because I don't. I don't know. I mean, there are books as big. And these are like indie authors. They're a conservative. Like, my book is doing well. Could go 20, 30, 40, 50 grand a month on Amazon.
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