With a market estimated to reach $49 billion by 2010, the video and DVD industry represents a major business opportunity according to a book about bootstrapping you own video business from home.

DV Café Blog has this review of Secrets of Producing and Selling Successful Videos: How To Make Money With DVDs And Streaming Video by Hal Landen an author of several books on video production and a longtime video freelancer according to DV Café Blog.


DV Café Blog says the book will help readers:

• bootstrap your own video publishing business without investors or loans

• Discover how others with no equipment or video experience have published successful videos series

• discover that special interest videos are a perfect sideline that can overcome the limitations of the video service business

• multiply your profits and sell products around the world from the comfort of your home

• choose a profitable genre and find a devoted audience for your video

• See how a smart publicity campaign can get your video reviewed in all the right places

Of course, numerous on line video services now offer the opportunity to promote and even in some cases profit from your video productions on line at no cost, assuming you already have the equipment to produce and upload your productions to the sites.

They include:
• YouTube, possibly the most famous allowing you to promote your video clips to a massive on line community
• LiveVideo, a MySpace like community where channel owners upload original video to their sites
• Revver, a YouTube-like site offering the twist of paying video producers for ads offered on their videos
• Blip.tv, still in beta and also offering video creators the opportunity to profit from their videos
• Glumbert, yet another YouTube like entry