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How to Sell One Million Ebooks on the Internet

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:17:59 +0000

Writing, reselling other author’s ebooks and selling your own ebooks can be extremely lucrative. Writing and selling ebooks have become one of the most profitable work at home businesses on the Internet? Everyone looks for information on the Internet. If you can give them the kind of information they really want, they will be very happy to pay you for your knowledge. Learn from the prosperous about ebook marketing secrets to assure you of success.

There are many different ways to sell millions ebooks. If one of your goals is to become a Millionaire or make a six-figure income online then consider selling ebooks by the quantity. Most people just set a goal of making a million dollars over the Internet and that is good but most plans fall short of making that kind of income because making money is there only goal. When your goal of having your own home internet business that has that kind of success of earning one million dollars with the emphasis on selling a large number of units then your success will be very attainable especially with ebook sales.

The first thing you may want to consider is writing your own ebook and selling it online and having your own home base business. There are plenty of topics on which you can write an ebook, just pick one that you are suited for. Ebooks are not that difficult to write, compile or create and they do not take that long to write one. You can write an ebook in one day. Many ebooks are only about 25 pages. Some ebooks are about 200 pages. Just write about something that you already know. Think about your occupation or the hobbies that you have and you will realize that you are close to an expert on that subject.

If you only have one ebook that you want to sell in order to make a million dollars then you will have to sell one million ebooks making one-dollar profit on each one. This would be one of the hardest ways of selling one million ebooks. If your profit was 2 to 5 dollars on each ebook then you will not have to sell as many to make one million dollars. Selling a million units with only one ebook title may take some years even if is a popular subject and well written that would appeal to a large audience or attract many consumers and customers.

Although it is very possible to sell one million ebooks from just one title in a short period of time, most authors have a few ebooks from many ebooks for sale. Ebooks are a great home base business that will cost you nothing to set up and your selling is all online.

Your chances of selling one million ebooks increase dramatically when you have multiple titles that you are selling at the same time. If you have 30 ebooks that you have written and they are excellent ebooks and appeal to many customers then your goal of selling one million ebooks will increase greatly and much more quickly then selling just one title. Use your imagination and try to conceive of having 100 to 1000 ebook titles that you could sell and how long it would take to sell one million ebooks.

You can sell other author’s ebooks and make a profit off of them, which will get you closer to your goal of selling many ebooks up to one million ebooks, this will save you time on publishing. Obviously the more ebook titles you have the closer you will be to your goal in selling one million ebooks.

Realistically you can have only 25 titles of ebooks that you have written or have purchased reseller rights on and sell one million ebooks in about a year. The key is to select the popular categories on what sells best on the Internet. Then the next thing you will need is to advertise it by using an ebook description that would make all people want to buy your ebook. This would be the best ebook promotion method. I have more information on this subject.

Ebooks: An Overlooked Goldmine?

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:13:32 +0000

Estimates now indicate that ebook sales have surpassed both the audiocassette and the audio CD in consumer preference. Ebooks are also ranked second only to traditional book publishing in current sales.
From an entrepreneurial standpoint, one of the greatest difficulties in looking at revenue producing ideas is to arrive at the party early enough to see the largest return on investment. The truth is ebooks may have been the best entrepreneurial choice in 2004, but as sales continue to climb ebooks are still an incredible investment tool.
Ebooks are one of the least expensive ways to publish and the end result is not reliant on a very fussy editor. You are able to retain an incredibly large portion of each sale; a percentage that far exceeds standard book royalties.
The ebooks being produced today do not conform to a single topic or style. They run the gamut from non-fiction to poetry, and children’s to fiction.
While it is true that anyone CAN develop an ebook it is equally true that not every ebook is a best seller. Many individuals see ebooks as an opportunity for wealth development, but either don’t spend enough time developing the ebook, they lack the skills to write or they have chose a topic that is either overdone or holds little interest in the market.
Many non-writing business owners have worked with freelance writers to develop a product on their behalf. This is done on a write-for-hire basis. In essence an author will draft the ebook contents and the business owner will assign their name to the finished product having purchased all rights to the work from the author.
In this way the business owner can be reasonably assured they have a product the consumer is interested in purchasing and stands the best chance of not only returning the cost of development, but can go on to produce additional and long-term wealth for the owner of the work.
Some authors have seen as much as $6,000 monthly from the sale of popular ebook titles. When you consider that ebooks can be placed on a website and transactions can take place without your involvement it becomes easy to see this type of business opportunity as a great business opportunity with minimal maintenance.
Ebooks can easily be an added feature to an existing business. What’s more, they can also be spun off in an affiliated agreement scenario where your title is available on other sites with a portion of the sale going to the affiliate and a portion to you as content owner.

Heard of Digital Readers? the New Place Where the Savvy Publish Ebooks

admin — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:42:42 +0000

You might not have discovered digital readers yet.
Well in a nutshell it is like a paper-back, only it is an electronic reading device. It is about the same size as a small paper-back book and it looks very much like real paper and print as you read it.
Would you like to benefit from digital readers now?
The really cool thing is that instead of having just one book, some digital readers are capable of holding a couple of hundred eBooks, magazines or daily newspapers. Can you imagine how it would feel to take a small library away with you on your trips? You can carry it in your coat pocket or bag………….Oh, and weighing in at less than a pound in weight?
How can I increase my eBook sales?
Oprah just endorsed a major brand of digital eBook reader on her show very recently. Actually, saying she endorsed it is an understatement. She actually said it was, “her new favorite thing.” Do you understand what that is going to do for digital reader sales? Through the roof this Christmas! So combine her glowing endorsement with other glowing reviews you can find elsewhere, plus your eBooks and you have a golden opportunity to cash in this Christmas.
Just imagine checks coming in from a major online book seller in time for you to perhaps buy your own digital reading device for Christmas? Get in now and get people buying your books and get one up on the competition so you are already in the front of their mind.
You can tap into this lucrative market for your eBooks and profit very quickly with just a bit of effort and some inside info.
Digital readers are getting so much attention now, that the buyers of eBooks cannot help but see the advantages of carrying their own personal library around to read where and when they choose. They will always have the book they want and when they want it. Access to thousands of publications is instantaneous.
Most NY Times best sellers are available for less than ten bucks for digital readers!
Are you up for increasing the profits from your eBooks?
Would you like to harness the power of a major online retailer to help you make more money? Well you can, yes you, but you need to take action to do so.
If you have an eBook, that’s great. If you do not, don’t worry as you can get one written for you for a few hundred dollars on almost any subject you care to mention by simply posting an idea and some chapter headings on an online writer’s site and people will bid to do the writing and research for your digital reader format book.
All you need to do is give it a title, edit and add a cover and voila! You now have an eBook ready to upload to a digital reader site in time for Christmas.
If you do not fancy that idea, then see how many private label rights you have on your computer and compile the content of two or three and make one eBook to see for very little layout. You can even call it your own in most cases.
Don’t get left behind as the really astute eBook authors are already using the power of digital readers to get their books in front of a new generation of readers. This market is going to explode as thousands of new people search for information each day.
Don’t delay. Market you eBooks in a new way today to help explode your sales.

How to Get Plr Ebook Sales Pages Onto Your Website

admin — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:12:57 +0000

For the sake of this article I will assume that you have just purchased a plr ebook publishing package and want to know how to prepare the sales pages for your plr ebooks and upload them to your website. I am also assuming that you have a basic knowledge of HTML code and are also familiar with Paypal (http://www.paypal.com).
When you download a basic plr ebook package to your hard-drive and open the folder, you will usually find several more folders inside that contain the ebook, graphics, webpages, information documents about distribution rights.
Before you upload everything to your website you will need to modify the sales page.
Modifying The Sales Page
Open the sales page in your browser and read through it to find out what needs to be changed. The parts you need to modify will probably be in bold text and in a different color from the main sales copy. They will most likely be placed in square brackets. For example:
From the desk of [Your Name]
[List Bonuses Here, If Any]
You can easily modify the sales page by clicking on the “view source” option on your browser. Copy and paste the source text to a new file in your html editor. Now, simply delete the square brackets and everything between them and type in your own information.
With a plr package you can probably change the sales text, the product price and the bonus offers to suit your own requirements, but check the terms and conditions first to make sure.
The next big thing to deal with is the payment button. I am assuming that you want your customers to pay through Paypal.
Log in to your Paypal account, click on the “Merchant Services” tab and make a “Buy Now” button. You will need to set the price and give the product a name. Make sure it is a name that you will understand so that you know what is being sold once purchases start to come in!
Next, if the product designer has made a nice “Buy Now” button graphic that you would like to use, click on the “Use your own button image” radio button in the “customize button” section. Now enter the url of the graphic. (You can do this even if you have not yet uploaded the graphic – just type in the intended url!) It might look something like this:

http://www.myaffiliatewebsite/ebooksales/graphics/buynowgraphic1.jpg

Now click on “Step 3 Customize advanced features (optional)” and set the first three radio buttons to “no” and then check the two boxes that read “Take customer to a specific page (URL) after checkout cancellation”, and “Take customer to a specific page (URL) after successful checkout”. Now enter the url of these two pages on your website, for example:

http://www.myaffiliatewebsite/ebooksales/cancel.html

and

http://www.myaffiliatewebsite/ebooksales/thankyou.html

Don’t worry if you have not yet made those pages! I’ll talk about them in my next article. All we are doing right now is setting up an plr ebook sales page.
When everything is set, press the “Create button” button and copy the code. Now go back to your HTML editor, find the place where the “Buy now” button should be located in the sales page and paste the code into the page.
One other thing you will need to do is to make sure that all the graphics will appear on the sales page when you upload them and it to your website. Go through the HTML code and locate all the images. If necessary, change the url of each image to the url where the images will be located on your website. It is a good idea to make a separate directory on your website for the graphics and place them all in there.
All you have to do now is to save the page and upload the sales page and the graphics to the appropriate directories on your website. Once that is done, type the sales page url into your web browser and see how it looks. If all the graphics are there, you have done a good job! Check the “Buy Now” button. If it looks good, click on it and make sure that you are taken through to the Paypal purchase page and that the details on that page are all correct.
Now that you know how to upload a plr ebook sales page to your website, the next stage is to get the product and the “thank you” page uploaded, and also the “order cancellation” page. Let’s deal with all that in the next article.

Make an Ebook Following These 9 Steps in 4 Weeks

admin — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:12:35 +0000

Curious about how to create an ebook and quickly get it to the marketplace? Taking these 9 key steps toward ebook publishing not only can create extra income for you, but also propel your career, business or hobby to the next level: Step #1: Decide on your ebook topic, usually something you already know quite a bit about. Your decision should be influenced by whether your main goal is to market your knowledge vs. market an ebook that many people may be interested in buying. Whichever topic your choose, be sure it’ll be a real how-to, will solve problems for your readers. Step #2: Next comes your homework. Learn the information products that are considered hot sellers in your category and why. Do this by browsing the search engines, forums and ebook sales sites such as Clickbank and eBay. Save and file the best of what you find in your “Swap File.” Step #3: Use your Swap File and own expert knowledge to create your chapter outline. Identify any information gaps and pull more background information to include in your Swap File. Read the latest books on your ebook topic. Also buy some of the ebooks yours will be up against. It’s best to organize and have all the background information you need before you begin writing. Step #4: Write the ebook content from scratch (or completely rewrite your Swap File information). If writing isn’t your strong suit or something you have enough time for, it’s easy to hire a ghostwriter, providing the writer your Swap File material and chapter outline as a blueprint. Step #5: Choose an attention-grabbing title for your ebook; give it a nice interior layout and e-cover. Now obtain feedback on what you’ve created. Ask your ebook reader to write a testimonial about how helpful they found your information. Plan to use this positive feedback in your ebook marketing material. Step #6: Decide whether you’ll offer your ebook as a universally viewable PDF or if need to save it another way so you can include video and audio. If you choose the latter, you can download ebook compiler software that allows those more interactive features. But note, people using Mac computer cannot read ebooks saved in the .EXE format. Step #7: Decide whether you’ll market the e-book on your existing website, or if it deserves its own separate site. The best practice, however, is to establish a separate website or mini-site. Think carefully about which route you’ll take. Building a singlularly-focused minisite for your e-book gives you a better chance of keeping site visitors’ attention. However if you choose to sell your ebook from a more typical website, you’ll be able to link to lots of SEO-friendly articles you’ve uploaded, really showcasing your expertise. Step #8: Some people write their own marketing and sales copy; others hire a copywriter, an expert to get this done. If not well written and presented, you’re sabotaging your chances of making sales by doing this yourself. Getting a pro to write your sales letter can be expensive. So if you’re trying to stay under $1,000 for your entire ebook creation project, study everything you can about how to write a sales letter and see how well your sales go. You can always save up and hire a copywriter later to rewrite your pitch page if your product isn’t selling. Step #9: Create your marketing plan and implement it. Using strong SEO (search engine optimization) techniques on your book’s sales site is crucial, but so is networking offsite to drive even more traffic your way. Allowing affiliate marketers to sell your ebook for a percentage of the profits is an important system to establish. Also, most ebook publishers spend money to advertise online, even if it’s $200 to start. If possible, at least start with advertising your ebook through an ad auction system such as Google AdWords.Believe it or not, you can do all of the above in under 4 weeks. Of course, not everyone has time to get it done that quickly, but it’s doable. Some ebook ghostwriters claim to do it in far less time. But I wouldn’t recommend taking such a fast-track. Sometimes all of that speed shows up in a product. Mistakes made from rushing can hurt your sales and credibility. Take 4 to 6 weeks to do it right. Then, your ebook will have the power to open doors to new opportunities, even while you sleep!

Ebook Authors! – How to Increase Your Ebook Sales Overnight!

admin — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 20:55:13 +0000

To make the most of your ebook and increase sales you need to think outside the box so to speak
Would you be interested in discovering a way to increase your ebook sales overnight?
Then you need to check out all the attention digital readers are getting right now. This is a ready-made market for your ebooks and with Christmas coming in less than two months from now there is no better time to start taking advantage of a marketing platform that is going to explode as it rolls out to more countries.
Why not start writing some reports to add to your sales of published material. If you outsource some of the work you will be amazed at how little you might have to pay for the reports.
According to the International Digital Publishing Forum, sales of ebooks have risen steadily over the past six years, from around $6 million in 2002 to around $33 million last year (2007). These figures do not include small author/publishers or educational publishers, so this would make the market potentially even larger. That’s a conservative increase of $27M in five years, so can you see the potential increase in ebook sales when you tap into the new digital reader market?
You can benefit from the endorsements that Oprah recently gave about one make of reader. A lot of people sit up and take notice of what she has to say and this can help you to increase your sales of ebooks and reports.
You might have your own book that you could not get a publisher to take on and so you have made it into an ebook and are disappointed in your sales so far. By publishing it onto a digital text platform you only have to do the work once and let household named retailers list it on their sites. You are able to list keywords or tags as they are often referred to with ebook publishing.
Its a bit like doing an internet search with a search engine. You need to work out the keywords or phrases others use to get noticed.
The only way to get your ebook or articles seen is to see what the successful authors are doing and follow their lead. When you find a similar book to yours, you can usually scroll down the page and see a list of popular tags used by that author. You then simply make sure that you include the same tags in your book and by digging a bit deeper into other similar titles you can incorporate some of their tags too. To increase your ebook sales and profits you need to have your books found easily when someone does a search.
There are some great resources out there to help in your quest to be more profitable in selling your ebooks or reports. Selling your ebooks to the Digital Reader marketplace is something you should certainly investigate if you are looking to make as many sales of your ebook as possible.

Romancing The Ebook ? South Africa’s Romance Ebook Store, Ebook Diva, Launches

admin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:44:38 +0000

This month, New Holland Publishing, in conjunction with Booksite Digital, a division of Booksite Afrika, South Africa’s largest book distributor, launched eBook Diva (www.ebookdiva.com). eBook Diva specialises in Romantic Fiction eBooks, which is by far the most popular category of eBooks. Because of the digital nature of eBooks, publishers can now make reading a more interactive experience. And in addition to being a world-class eBook store, eBook Diva will create a free writers’ community which will allow fans of the Romantic Fiction genre to create and share their own eBooks with a community of readers who will be able to comment on their work. Aspiring authors can even personalise their eBooks by choosing fonts and book covers, while retaining ownership of the copyright to their work, which will allow them to publish their work.eBooks are a smart choice for the environment, and the ease and convenience that they offer make them a popular choice for many people. Today, an increasing number of people are accessing information from portable media devices such as eReaders, iPods, laptops and cell phones – and eBooks are the perfect complement to these devices. Because most people carry these with them, they are now able to have their entire library available.eBooks will probably never completely replace printed books, but the demand for eBooks exists and is growing rapidly. The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) has announced that the US trade retail eBook sales to August 2009 are 120% up on last year YTD, compared to the sales of books in general, which are up only 3.6% for the year, as tracked by the Association of American Publishers (AAP).Internationally, leading publishers including Random House, Harlequin Mills and Boon, Pan Macmillan, Penguin, Simon and Schuster and HarperCollins are investing heavily in the growing eBook market. And in South Africa, publishers are starting to put eBook strategies in place to meet the growing demand.While eBooks can easily be purchased and read on a computer, dedicated devices called eReaders are quickly becoming more popular and affordable. These devices are usually the size of a slim paperback, can store thousands of eBooks, newspapers, magazines and other electronic documents. At the end of last year, two eBook Readers became available in South Africa (Amazon’s Kindle, as well as Elonex eBook Reader 511EB). And just last month, the Foxit eSlick eBook Reader was also released in South Africa.

Xlibris Boosts Indie Publishing Offer With The Eadvantage Ebook Publishing Package

admin — Wed, 26 May 2010 20:21:16 +0000

Bloomington-based self-publishing pioneer Xlibris Corporation announces the launch of its eAdvantage Publishing Package. This service spells a fresh opportunity for self-published authors wanting to tap into the emerging market of portable eBook readers across the US, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand.

Figures from the Association of American Publishers, a group of leading book publishers in the US, reported a 176.6% increase in eBook sales amounting to $169.5 million in 2009. The report underscores the growth of the electronic publishing’s share of trade from 1.2% in 2008 to 3.3% in 2009, suggesting a shift in reader’s book-buying preferences.

Xlibris goes on to tap this emerging niche by offering the eAdvantage publishing package for independent authors. The package combines its professional self-publishing services with top of the line marketing services that maximizes an eBook’s availability and visibility online.

Standard package features include a fully customizable book interior layout and cover design services where authors themselves can either work with a professional interior layout and cover design templates or provide their own designs. All published eBooks get the “ePak”, that is automatic distribution to six major electronic publishing retailers in their respective formats: Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes & Noble.com’s The Nook, Sony Readers and online digital book portals Scribd.com and Booksonboard.com.

Complementing the list of publishing and distribution features is the eAdvantage’s Google Search Engine Marketing component. This allows electronic publishing buyers to find titles using keywords that authors can “bid” on to associate their published works with, thereby boosting their eBook’s visibility online.

Both previously published and unpublished authors can take advantage of eAdvantage’s Author Services Representative who will guide them through the entire publishing process. They can also track their electronic publishing’s progress and sales via the “MyXlibris” tracking interface in the Xlibris website. Published titles get their own book pages within the site with their authors retaining full control of the content. Further, authors get a 50% royalty on every eBook sale paid on a quarterly basis.

For more information on the eAdvantage Publishing Services Package, please visit http://www2.xlibris.com, e-mail pressrelease@xlibris.com or call at 1-888-795-4274, to receive a free publishing guide.

EBook Publishing Growth – Myth or Reality!

admin — Sun, 02 May 2010 20:13:41 +0000

In today’s world you will find that eBook publishing is becoming one of the largest industries in cyberspace. You can find an eBook on just about any subject. It’s fast becoming a huge industry. We would like to share a little bit of this exciting news with you today.
Back in June of 2009 it was said that the eBook publishing world had produced sales that were 150% higher than the previous year. Currently, and this might sound crazy, but eBook sales made up 3% of the total book sales which is really astounding. Considering that not all books are “eBookable” with current reader technology: much of the juvie list, many illustrated books, and books where graphic material is important will not be produced as eBooks. Consequently, the number is higher for straight narrative titles – maybe as high as 8%.
One of the biggest reasons readers are turning to eBooks is technology. The ability to offer an eBook online and read it from an iPod, Kindle, iPhone or other popular device is building the eBook market. It is downloaded in a matter of minutes and many different eBooks can be placed on the same reader.
Gone are the days when PDF eBooks rule. With over 500,000 Amazon Kindle eBook readers sold, 400,000 Sony Readers sold and over 30 million Apple iPhones across 80 countries sold it is no wonder that the demand for eBooks is currently booming. eBooks are fast becoming available on every possible topic both fiction and nonfiction. eBooks are even available in public libraries. They are also being used more and more in schools and universities. Many popular authors are making their books available in eBook format. For example, Stephen King’s novel was downloaded over a million times.
Another powerful growth driver for eBooks is authors of both fiction and nonfiction can publish and market their own eBooks bypassing the tradition print industry model. With WEB building tools getting more sophisticated and easier to use, authors can write their book and market the book on their own site. Other tools make it easy to get an eBook on distribution networks like Amazon, iTunes and others. Other tools make it easy to move from a Microsoft Word format to a Kindle or iPhone format further enhancing the distribution network of the eBook.
Most important, these new eBook publishing tools allow the author to keep more of the proceeds from the sale. That is, authors make a lot more money self publishing in an eBook format. For example, under the traditional paradigm of having a publishing company print and market a print book the author may receive as much as 10% of the proceeds of all the sales. With print on demand, the author typically receives 20% to 30% of the proceeds. But when the book is self published as an eBook approximately 100% of the proceeds are received by the author.
So is eBook publishing a myth or reality? It’s quickly becoming a reality. Possibly the best reason that eBooks are becoming so popular is the price is lower than conventional books. In addition, the low production costs will drive down prices even more eventually making eBooks the book of choice. The reality is eBook publishing is growing extremely fast. The old paradigm is dying. eBook publishing is the new model leading the way to less expensive books distributed quicker to a global market.