Create a Second Income Stream With Your Medium Articles

Mark Thompson
2 min readSep 2, 2024
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You’ve written articles on Medium, and you’ve maybe earned a few hundred dollars from them—well done…but you’ve left a load of potential income on the table.

Last week, I published a book on Amazon.

Most of the content for it came from articles I’d already written on Medium; in fact, the book's title was a sub-title of one of my most successful articles.

I’ve got over 300 articles here on Medium, I estimate that is around 250,000 words. Each book I write is a mini book of around 7000–8000 words, so I could probably get around 30 books from the content here.

But that’s not all. Amazon Recommend a minimum word count of 2500 words for a book, so there is nothing stopping you expanding on your best content and creating a short book and publishing it on Amazon.

Today’s Substack Post brings you ten lessons from 20 years of creating content.

Longevity

So let’s say you write four articles this week and publish them on Medium. How long do…

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Mark Thompson

Veteran Content Marketer, Keeping it Simple and Sharing What Works in my regular newsletter: https://substack.com/@simpleisprofit