Marc said that it took about 9 months for him to write a book and he had to “crank out” about 1000 words a day and then go through the material, edit it, send it to an editor, and then send it out to different publishers. You got paid in advance, but that you had to payback and you get circa 10 – 15% of the sales. You have to sell about 1000 books before the big publishers will notice you, if you publish the book by yourself.

I think that many people are going to the Internet, but I don’t read a whole book on the screen. I am interested in getting a Kindle in the future in order to test this gadget and see how it is to read an e-book.

You could start out to write an e-book and distribute it on the Internet. If it get popular you got then turn into a paper book. Lulu.com is one source if you want to publish it.

I thought the interview ended in a nice way, describing on how his daughter had written several children stories and then published them by herself.

However I am wondering Marc, do you think it won’t take up much energy, effort, time, and money to write, publish and market your book? Are the return on investment all worth it? Especially these days, people turn to Internet right away when they needed information?

Which is your favorite business book?