February 2, 2012

How to Profit with eBooks

make money with ebooksThere are lots of ways to make money from home over the internet, and depending on your unique set of skills, different doors will be open to you. That said, regardless of your particular skill set, if you can write clearly and quickly, then you can make money from writing about what you know. This comes in the form of ebooks, a sort of online document that can be purchased and downloaded electronically. Ebooks can come in all shapes and sizes, from fiction to how-to guides to independent research. Here, we’ll go over how you can combine your writing abilities with your personal knowledge to create eBooks, as well as how you can profit from them.

Ebooks are, essentially, the digital version of a conventional book. They have several unique advantages and disadvantages that make them more or less suitable for particular tasks. One of the major advantages is that, because they are contained in a digital format, they can be placed online and thus be made available to hundreds of millions of people. Their digital format also makes them quite easy to store, and they can be translated with relative ease. Ebooks are also significantly cheaper than actual books, and the distribution itself is free or very cheap.

Taking advantage of these benefits allows you to create a document that can be sold to and read by a huge audience. Suppose you write a one-hundred page ebook on kayaking: how to keep them maintained, proper technique for rivers and oceans, interesting places to kayak, and so forth. By properly using internet marketing to promote the ebook (blogging about it, etc.), you can make it available to a significantly larger audience than if you were to create a real world document. By charging a fee for downloading the ebook, you can make a significant amount of money in a relatively short time.

Suppose you charge three dollars for a download, compared to paperback costs of between five and fifteen. This makes buying the book an easy decision for most consumers, as three dollars is pocket change to most people. However, because the exposure of the book can be so wide, and because selling a book costs you literally nothing (no publishing cost, no materials, etc.), you make all three dollars on each purchase. This means that after only three hundred downloads of your book, you’ve made almost a thousand dollars, and kept it all!

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Comments

  1. the Success Ladder says:

    This is a very interesting point of view. Your blog is refreshing, but I wish one could find more content, though. I am looking forward to reading more from you. Keep up the good work. thanks.

  2. kim s says:

    This is such a great resource that you are providing and you give it away for free. I enjoy seeing websites that understand the value of providing a prime resource for free. I truly loved reading your post. Thanks!

  3. TSAR3000 says:

    that sounds so good till now but… how can i protect my ebook from spreading freely after someone buy it??

    a you said it is cheap price so anyone can give it for all for free.

    is there any way to protect my rights?

    thanks in advance

    • PLR says:

      Well first of all, you will definitely want to password protect the pdf file itself, as well as secure the download location to make it more difficult.
      As the author, if you see your work being shared somewhere, you can demand that it be taken down.

      Unfortunately though the nature of the internet is such that if the movie companies with the budget they have, can’t stop it from happening, all you can do is protect yourself the best you can, and try to plan your book launch and product launch well in advance so that you do a large portion of your sales during the launch period. After that the losses that occur are simply the cost of doing business online i’m afraid.

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