Kindle Books – Why Don’t You Write One?

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.

Currently, most e-books are distributed in PDF format, which is suitable for the popular Adobe Acrobat reader. Practically everybody has a copy of Acrobat on their hard drive, so this makes perfect sense. Even if someone does not have a copy of this program, all they have to do is visit the Adobe website where they can download Acrobat free of charge.

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 are other options available and at least one of these is very new. The Amazon Kindle reader is a pretty hot gadget right now. It is, very definitely, a nice piece of kit. The fact that virtually every new e-book reader released which shows the slightest promise is instantly christened the “Kindle killer” only serves to confirm that Amazon’s Kindle is not only the market leader, but is the standard against which all other e-book readers are measured. The key ting to note. from the point of view of an Internet marketer, is that more people have Kindle readers than any other type.

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?

Well, in addition to providing a new method of reading for users, the Kindle also makes new ways of publishing available. As long as you have an Amazon account – which is free (if you’ve ever bought anything from Amazon you already have one) – you can quickly and easily publish your own Kindle e-book. All you need to do is save your e-book in HTML format using word processing software such as Microsoft Word and then upload it to the Amazon website. Your e-book could be being sold by the world’s largest bookseller in a matter of minutes.

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.

It’s also worth considering that the Kindle may be the future of both books and e-books as well. It’s an ideal opportunity for you to get in on the ground floor with what could very well turn out to be a totally new development in e-book marketing. So, maybe you should think about producing a Kindle edition of the next e-book!

Profiting from the Amazon Kindle is easy – publish a Kindle version of your next e-book – you could even sell Kindle accessories as an affiliate.