Have You Thought About Publishing A Kindle Book?
For many Internet marketers e-books are one of the cornerstones of their online business. Whether as an affiliate or an author, most online marketers will have sold or at least given away (maybe as a bonus) e-books at some 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.
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.
Aside from the hardware, one of the important influencing factors in the Kindle’s success to date has definitely been the huge number of Kindle books which are available on the Amazon website for readers to choose from. At the moment there are more than 420,000 Kindle books to pick from. This number is being added to at an average rate of approximately 500 new titles daily. So, as interesting as that undoubtedly is, 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.
As long as you set the price of your e-book between $0.99 and $9.99, Amazon will let you keep 70% of the sales price – minus a few cents for the delivery of the book (the delivery fee depends upon how many kilobytes the book takes up). This may be somewhat less than you might typically make selling a $97 e-book – whether as an affiliate or an author – but the potential for large sales volumes, and the fact that the process is free, may make it worth your while in the long run.
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!
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