by David
Goldsmith
This
morning before breakfast I checked my
email and found an extra hundred dollars
in one of my accounts. It was revenue
from sales of one of my ebooks
overnight.
I confess
to living in a time zone far from
America so a good percentage of my ebook
sales come in just like that. During the
daytime in North America, while I am
sleeping, someone purchases and
downloads one of my ebooks. An email is
automatically sent to me, notifying me
of the sale.
Each morning I check in to see what
happened overnight. I love to see a
hundred bucks there. Or two hundred. Or
even just fifty. The income varies from
day to day but over a month it all adds
up to a reasonable amount.
Many
people are unsure if there is money to
be made in writing and publishing ebooks.
Other people are just too afraid to take
the first step and get started.
Here are a
few myths about ebook publishing.
MYTH ONE.
Writing an Ebook is Difficult
It's not.
Well it's certainly no more difficult
than writing a regular book and in many
cases it can be considerably easier.
Consider that the average ebook is much
shorter than the average book in regular
print. I have seen many successful
ebooks in the range of 25 to 80 pages
and it is certainly easier to write a 75
page book than to fill up 225 pages.
Many ebook
authors find that writing an ebook
becomes easier if they begin by clearly
outlining the structure of their ebook.
They carefully plan out a sequence of
chapters. Next, they look at each
chapter as a separate article that needs
to be written. Many people can write one
article within a day, and at that rate,
writing an entire ebook doesn’t take too
long.
If you need some good advice on how to
write an article every day check out
www.publishyourownebooks.com/articleaday.htm
MYTH TWO. Getting People to Promote Your
Ebook will be Difficult
It's not.
Once your ebook is written and
published, consider selling it through
the marketplace at ClickBank. Besides
enabling you to take credit card
payments online without having a
merchant account with your bank,
ClickBank boasts an army of some 11,000
affiliates ready and willing to promote
good ebooks.
Other ebook publishing partners are also
available and there is more information
on these at our web site.
MYTH THREE. It’s Better to
Do-It-All-Yourself
Wrong.
Self-publishing is a terrific idea, but
once your ebook is written and published
you should enlist as much assistance as
possible in promoting it.
Partnering with related sites is just
one example of how you can do this. If a
related site is already selling ebooks,
offer to let the site owner add your
ebook to their selection and pay you,
for example, fifty percent of the
revenue from each sale. They could
simply cut you a check or pay you by
PayPal every quarter.
You’ll probably be busy concentrating on
your own sales efforts, and it will be a
pleasant surprise when their payment
arrives each quarter with a lump of
additional revenue.
MYTH FOUR.
After Your Ebook Is Written, Just Sit
Back, Relax and Watch the Checks Roll In
Bad idea.
You should always be working on
something new. Almost certainly interest
in your first ebook is going to fall off
after some time. It could take years,
but it might only be months or weeks.
You will reach a point of saturation
after a good number of people in your
audience have already purchased your
ebook. And sometimes your audience's
interest will simply move on to other
topics.
By always having more ebooks in the
development pipeline you should be able
to keep several good sellers on the
market at any point in time.
Think
about the myths. Think about your desire
to be a successful book author. Now take
action. Write. Publish. Sell.
About the Author
David Goldsmith is the author of
"25 Ways To Write For Money",
a guide to multiple income streams for freelance writers. He is also
a regular contributor to
Publish Your Own
Ebooks. For more
information on his ebook, visit
http://www.WriterIncome.com
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