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In reply to the discussion: Porn Viewing: Do you know what you're talking about? [View all]Prophet 451
(9,796 posts)Ebook porn is a business of what's hot at the moment. When "Fifty Shades" came out, there was a sudden boom in both billionaire playboys and light BDSM. Vampires and werewolves sell briskly. My fantasy sex (i.e. orcs, goblins, etc) stories are fairly consistent sellers. Weirdly, most of my gay porn (I'm bisexual) sells on sites where most of the buyers are female. The only thing that doesn't sell at all is straight sex in the missionary position. Just like regular porn, people are looking to buy into a fantasy where cocks are always hard, pussies are always moist, everyone is great-looking and they all have movie-star sex in adventurous positions.
It's relatively easy to do. You just write teh story (3-5k words, of which at least 2/3 should be actual sex), format it according to the style guide (varies by publisher) and submit it to Amazon (via KDP) and Smashwords (who syndicate to all teh big ebook retailers). Stories of that length generally sell for $2.99, of which you get $2-2.25 depending on teh retailer).
I make maybe a couple hundred bucks a month doing this but there are plenty of people who do it as a full-tiem job.