HyperInk: How Profitable Can The E-Book Business Be? – with Kevin Gao

Kevin Gao, HyperInk, Bootstrapping, Content, Scaling

How profitable can the e-book business be for an entrepreneur?

Kevin Gao is the founder of HyperInk, a Y-Combinator backed digital publisher that published books by Brad Feld, Jeff Atwood, Alexis Ohanian and Mixergy.

But that’s not why I invited him here.

Years ago, he told me about an ebook he published before he even launched hyperink and how it did over $100,000 in sales. He never let me talk about it publically, until now.

Kevin Gao

HyperInk

Kevin Gao is the founder of HyperInk, a Y-Combinator backed digital publisher that published books by Brad Feld, Jeff Atwood, Alexis Ohanian and Mixergy.

 

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Hey there freedom fighters, my name is Andrew Warner, I’m the founder of Mixergy.com, home of the ambitious upstart.

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