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E-Publishers’ Guides to Writing Books

Emmy Komada bio ↓  ·  June 27th, 2011  ·  filed under books, Media

Ever heard of this guy?

Chances are you haven’t, but one peek at that link will show you just how much you’re missing out on. Manuel Ortiz Braschi is one of the most prolific self-publishers on Amazon’s Kindle site and, as author of more than 3,000 e-books on topics ranging from herb gardens to potty training, seems a veritable 21st century renaissance man.

With just a bit of digging though, the Guardian profiles him as one of a growing group of self-publishers enabled by the Kindle platform to rack up as many books-and as much profit-as possible with little original effort. These ‘scrapers’ get by on aggregating topic-specific info from various sources, often already online, add some twists here and there, and voila–a book!

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Emmy Komada is an editor, translator, and general communications aficionado both at the Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco and on her own in the down time. She likes languages, and reading, and trying to read in various languages. More from this author →

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