A key element in the online business efforts of many Internet marketers is e-book sales. The large majority of online marketers – either in the capacity of an affiliate or an author – will have sold, or perhaps given away (possibly as a bonus) e-books at some point in time.
Today, the vast majority of e-books are distributed in PDF format suitable for the widely used Adobe Acrobat reader. Almost everyone has a copy of Acrobat on their PC, so this makes a lot of sense. In the unlikely event that someone does not have this program, they can download a copy free of charge from the Adobe website.
Publishing your e-book, whether you have written it yourself or have bought PLR rights, is pretty simple. There are any number of programs which will produce a PDF file for you. All you have to do then is market it. Putting it on Clickbank is a fairly popular option.
However, there is a fairly recent addition to the available publishing methods which you may not yet have considered. Right now the Amazon Kindle e-book reader is a hot, “must have” gadget. It’s an extremely nice personal electronic device. The fact that nearly every new e-book reader that shows any promise whatsoever is christened the “Kindle Killer”, shows that the Kindle is not just the current market leader, but is the industry standard which all new e-book readers will be judged against. The thing to note, from a marketing perspective, is the fact that more people use the Kindle than any other kind of e-book reader.
Apart from the hardware, one of the key factors in the success of the Kindle to date has been the large number of Kindle books which users can choose from on Amazon’s website. There are over 420,000 titles available at the time of writing – and that number is increasing at an average rate of 500 new books every day. Which is all very fascinating of course, but what does it have to do with Internet marketing?
To get straight to the point, in addition to providing users with a new method of reading the Kindle also makes new publishing methods available. Anyone who has an Amazon account can quickly and easily publish a Kindle e-book. All you have to do is format your e-book using Microsoft Word, and then save it in HTML format before uploading it to the Amazon website. In no more than a matter of minutes your e-book could be on sale by the largest bookseller in the word.
You can set the price of your e-book at whatever you wish. However, if you choose a price between $0.99 and $9.99, you will retain 70% of the sales price for any books sold. There is a small deduction to cover delivery charges. This is based upon the size of the book in kilobytes and is usually no more than a few cents. Whilst this may be less than you might expect to make were you to sell a $97 e-book, the potential to achieve a large sales volume, coupled with the fact that the process is entirely free, may make it a profitable option for you.
Also worth considering is the fact that the Kindle might just be, not only the future of books, but the future of e-books as well. It’s a good opportunity for you to get in on the ground floor with what could be the wave of the future for e-book marketing. So, think about publishing a Kindle edition of your next e-book!
Learn how you could make money thanks to the Amazon Kindle – selling Kindle books could be very profitable for you.
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I’m pretty sure you have to price the Kindle book at 2.99 a 9.99 to get the 70%. That deal goes into effect sometime this summer, I believe.
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