E-books are, for many Internet marketers, a key element in their online business efforts. Most online marketers – acting as either an affiliate or an author – will have sold, or possibly given away as a bonus – e-books at some time.
The vast majority of e-books today are distributed in PDF format – suitable for the ubiquitous Adobe Acrobat reader. This makes a lot of sense – almost everybody has a copy of Acrobat on their PC. Even if they don\’t already have it, users can download a copy completely free of charge from the Adobe website.
Whether you have written it yourself or have bought PLR rights, publishing your e-book is very simple. There are plenty of programs which will generate a PDF file for you. All that you need to do is market your e-book. Clickbank is a very popular option for this.
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 technology of the hardware itself, one of the key elements in the success of the Kindle thus far, has been the large selection of Kindle books available on Amazon\’s website for readers to choose from. Currently, there are over 420,000 titles on offer – and this number is growing at an average rate of 500 new books every day. Which is all very interesting of course, but what does that have to do with your Internet marketing efforts?
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.
In terms of money, so long as you set the price of your book between $0.99 and $9.99, Amazon will give you 70% of the sales price – minus a delivery fee, which 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 make selling and $97 e-book – either as an author or an affiliate – the possibility for an increased sales volume isn\’t something to turn your nose up at.
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!
Making money with the Amazon Kindle is easy – publish a Kindle edition of your next e-book – you could even sell Kindle accessories as an affiliate.
