Hiring Cheap Ghostwriters To Write Kindle Ebooks

I think that with ghostwriters you generally get what you pay
for. I do publish a lot of titles on Kindle, and some start
with plr, but having a more long-term objective, I spend a few
extra dollars for ghostwriters.

On the other hand, I have to admit that I've never actually
tried to get an ebook written for $20... so I could be wrong.

willie

You can check Odesk.com, Freelancer.com, if you are looking for ghost-writers for your Kindle EBooks. I would suggest to posts in those sites your total amount that you are willing to pay for the whole project and there will be applicants that will enlist their names to your post. You can then choose who you will hire after interviewing the applicants and possible test-run if their style or philosophy of writing will be the same as yours.

$20 sounds really cheap!
How many pages could you get out of that??

Why is that the gut reaction of some "marketers" when a spamming avenue is closed... is to find another one?

What else could you achieve by spamming any publishing platform with cheap garbage than to get it spoiled for everybody?

Have you ever thought about publishing quality content? Just for a refreshing change...

If you want your ebook to be rife with spelling and grammatical errors than proceed without throwing any caution to the wind. There are plenty of "aspiring" writers willing to work for peanuts to simply find a way to make money online.

What is the point of selling junk, especially on a platform like Amazon where your publisher name is tied to your work? Do you not wish to receive REPEAT sales from people satisfied with your material?

You had a typo in your post that will significantly affect the replies you receive in this thread. No worries, I fixed it for you. ^

(And even then, I hope you're talking about short reports, not longer ebooks.)


~Becky

I've tried outsourcing a few articles and tried a sample ebook outsource. However, I found that I spent more time making corrections and rewriting the material just to get a sensible flow of thought. Sometimes it seems that these hired writers just throw words on the paper.

I'm not saying that there aren't good writers out there, they certainly are, but you're going to pay more for them.

Forget the dollar figure. You need to find a writer that can write an ebook that people will enjoy reading and feel that was worth the money they spent on it.

I'm sure you can find a writer that will write an ebook for $20 but I doubt you will find a writer that can write an ebook that is worth reading for $20.

When it comes down to it, for an eBook to stand a chance of being successful it needs to be well-written, edited and proofread.

$20 is what I get paid per page and I include all 3 of those things, plus research. It takes time and effort, even while being a fast writer.

$20 for an entire eBook? Even for a worker in a poor country, that is border-lining slavery...

You may want to consider making a proper investment; either a good amount of your time, or a fair rate to a capable writer. Other than that, you won't get far.

I will ghostwrite an eBook for you on any topic for $20.

Content will be similar to the past couple days of posts on my blog.

Offer expires at midnight, Monday, July 25, 2011.

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Why bother paying a whole $20? School is out. You might be able to get some 5th or 6th graders to write books for candy bars.

I know a couple ghostwriters and they just like the writing and research process not the marketing and publishing part which is why they like to ghostwrite.

The only other time I've heard of someone paying a ghostwriter $20 to write an e-book to publish on Kindle the dude was selling a 1K "how to" course.

It's hard to find a ghostwriter that will write for you with the low rate of $20. How about increasing it?

Hello friend,

I actually tried to outsource kindle books for 20$ to 25$ to the Philippines a while back.

After reading the material sent to me by my ghostwriter I decided that It was a plain grammatical typo induced, poetic disaster!

Thing is you can't blame the person you're hiring.
If you aim low that's the stuff you're going to get.

The problem with cheap content is that people mistaken it with the clothing/electronics industry.
You could fool millions with super cheap garments but you could hardly fool anyone with low quality content.

In the end of the day you are wasting your money in the short term and losing sales in the long term.

So what you're left with is.... You guess the rest!

So your choices are:
1- Hire a Native English writer for more money
2- Write your own books
3- Re-write other peoples books (PLR)

Conclusion: Create less books but sell more copies in the long term.

Good luck
Ari F

fact is you can go to freelancer and pay in the thousands for a "great" piece of work that may take a very long while if ever to make your money back - it may be well written but it does not mean the public will like it! meanwhile the writer has already made his money and you are left with an elephant(or task of having to make your money back plus profit)

If you pay $20 for getting an ebook written, do not post it on Kindle... it's probably a piece of crap that won't benefit you nor your readers... the most important thing is to have a satisfied readers who will buy again from you... so if they find a crap under your name once, they won't buy from you again... do you want to risk that for a $20?

I have a site which is intended to provide a platform for writers to sell their original ebooks and for Internet marketers to buy them. I've been a little surprised by the lack of interest since I believed there was a real need for this......too many writers not getting paid properly for their hard work and people wanting ebooks writing - so they can market them on kindle etc........any thoughts anyone?

Check the wso section there is product there that has exactly what youre looking for,just search kindle

20$ = Article writers

Who probably don't know anything about the niche you will work with..

So the book will be really bad quality & won't benefit your customers

You'll be wasting your time and the $20 trying to get an ebook written that cheap. I found an acceptable ghostwriter for ebooks for $500.

If you put a bunch of poorly written garbage together for a Kindle book, the results will be the same as if you used PLR for it. Kindle will reject it, and if they did, no one would buy it, and if they did, they would refund it.

Do it right or don't do it.

Look, I do understand why you are trying to get a ghost-written ebook for $20. A few months ago I went to a webinar where the sellers of the product were claiming that the outsourcing could be done for only $20. The only problem is - you had to spent a lot for the product of theirs in order to find out where the suckers that write $20 Kindle ebooks could be found...

If the Kindle ebook of yours is around 5 to 10 pages (more like a report and not a ebook)
you could hire for the $25 to $30 an editor to proofread it only. The rest of the work should be done by you, like images, ecover etc.

GOOD LUCK

In my opinion you simply record your story on an audio recorder and have it transcribed. This way you just edit your own thoughts and in the end, BAM you got a new book.

Fiverr is the way. They have top talent to go. In fact, I am using Fiverr now. Quality is just super. Most is stellar, but a few are very poor.

you have to check out this service:

It's SO cheap. Only 67 cents per 100 words. There is no place on the planet that's cheaper than this.

2. You pay exactly NOTHING if you don't like an article that's been written for you. You can approve or reject articles as they are written. You only pay when you approve an article.

3. Signing up for an account is free.

4. You can request 1 article or 1,000 articles to be written and you'll receive the 1, just as fast as you would receive the 1,000. The way the system is set up, thousands of writers will respond to your request and multiple writers will quickly take on your project. So, you could submit a request for 1,000 articles to be written and actually receive all 1,000 in only a couple of days!

5. As writers write for you, you can add specific writers to your "favorites" list and then submit your feature projects to ONLY those writers. This way, you're actually building your own writing team bigger and bigger, the more you use iWriter. It's awesome how this works.

6. It's super easy to post a project. You basically just just paste in a list of keywords and iWriter handles the rest.

7. It's also super easy to download them. They come as text files you can quickly and easily download to your computer. ... and I could list a lot more, but I think it's obvious why iWriter is quickly becoming the top choice of most internet marketers for content creation. I can't recommend it enough.

You can sign up for free here: => iWriter : Article Writing Service | Get Content For Your Website, Cheap!

What is the minimum pages/words that a ebook can have on Amazon Kindle?

I would be happy to write this ebook for you. Please see an example of my work below. Cheers.

email me...I don't like PM, not signed in enough...

gjabiz@yahoo.com

gjabiz

not sure why they do it, but there are millions of them out there that are ghostwritten. i think it's for the money and to keep working

I hate to contribute to dredging up old posts, but this topic comes up repeatedly.

As others have pointed out you get what you pay for. In general there are several ways to look for writers, depending on the subject.

The big publishers out there mostly use agents - even for non-fiction books. But they specialize. My agent only handles technical books and assignments (white papers, brochures, and books). You can find a list of literary agents online, or via the resources provided by Writer's Digest. The agent will be more than happy to recommend a writer - but you'll pay more than $20 for a book!

Traditional magazines rely on their Roladex and on query letters. Its a relationship business folks - get out and meet people, let them know how you can help and what you can do.

If you want to be a freelance writer the WF is the LAST place I'd recommend to be making a living. You can start out here - and if you're looking for inexpensive writers that's what you should be looking for - people just starting out. Good writers later on will be long gone from this forum - either because they've burned themselves out trying to make a dime on $5 articles, or because they used the articles they did write as their 'clips' to get higher paying gigs.

There are some folks in countries with lower cost of living that can write English and not have to charge as much - you can find them on various job sites like odesk, vworker, etc. but you need to vett them and take precautions.

The one thing I HIGHLY stress is make sure to get a contract with your writer spelling out the terms of the assignment and the rights you are buying. You also want them to state the work is original and that they will indemnify you against any litigation. These terms are in every contract I've ever signed for my writing work, whether it was for a 500 word article to a 1000page book. This is not a hobby - its a business and you need to protect yourself like a business. Especially given the level of copyright infringement from low cost providers and people who think a 'spun' article is OK for human consumption.

again - if you're looking for 'cheap' writers prepare to get what you pay for - or at least look for either people just starting out - or retired English teachers looking for some spending money (see aforementioned tool Google)

Good luck,
--Jack

Please for God's sake publish quality content. One rule I learn from a fellow warrior sig.
PEOPLE FIRST
PROFITS LATER.
Do that and your efforts will pay off for a long long time.

I'm assuming what the OP really meant was $20 per 100 words.

Right?

It's sad that people are trying to spam every venue they can find in order to 'maybe' generate a quick dollar.

Spamming a bunch of $20/kindle books isn't going to make you money on a long term basis. I'm glad Kindle banned PLR books... they have to.

It's going to get to the point where you need an official book deal in order to get published, and that's going to screw over all the self-publishers out there... all because of people like you.

Just saying.

Luckily, Amazon has been doing a pretty good job of banning authors who publish low quality crap and I know for a fact that there are more bans to come.

"Cheap ghostwriters" and "Kindle" should never be used in the same sentence.

My advice is to write the first few books yourself so that you get used to the process of writing, submitting and then marketing your ebook. There are specific things you can do within the book to help yourself. One example is to provide links to your website where you offer a freebie in return for an email address. Join Kindle select and do a one day free book sale. Get several hundred downloads and suddenly you have that many potential routes back to your website, a proportion of which will sign up and build your list.

Maybe someone could give advice on this question. Is there a source where I could have an ebook written but with the intention of using it as a "draft" copy to be re-written thereby not being concerned with spelling and grammatical errors?

I have to agree you just cannot get someone to write books for 20 bucks.

If someone can do that and get quality....everyone would do it.

But we all no that it is not going to happen.