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A Year of Selling eBooks on Gumroad — Here’s What Doesn’t Work

How not to sell ebooks on Gumroad

Image by the author using Canva Pro

This morning, I looked at my Gumroad statistics for the past year, and the result was insane.

Insanely bad.

I’m not going to make you wait for a big bang at the end of this article because I respect your time, and I know that’s why you’re here. So, here it is:

I’ve made a whopping $64.63 selling an ebook on Gumroad.

But I could have earned more. Way more.

I hope you won’t leave this article just yet because I want to share my failure on Gumroad. If you’re going to sell digital products online (using platforms like Gumroad), my mistake will definitely help you.

Every day, we read success stories.

But every success story has a backstory of failed experiments.

Now, I’ll give you mine.

Total earnings on Gumroad between May 2022 and Jul 2023 — image by the author

My book didn’t solve the right problem