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Banking on your writing skills

As we all know, we’re in an overcrowded profession. Although today’s digital technology has definitely made earning some kind of living from writing more achievable, it’s also made it more challenging.

Not too long ago, bookshops were the main retail outlets for books, selling them for the prices printed on their jackets. These days, however, there are plenty of websites offering readers pirated books for well below their cover prices, or even for free.

Amazon has opened up the market for independent publishers, enabling millions of authors to take their work to readers. But Amazon has

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