Kindle Books – Why Don’t You Write One?

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.

Today, the vast majority of e-books are distributed in PDF format suitable for the widely used Adobe Acrobat reader. Almost everyone has a copy of Acrobat on their PC, so this makes a lot of sense. In the unlikely event that someone does not have this program, they can download a copy free of charge from the Adobe website.

Whether you have bought PLR rights or written your e-book yourself, publishing it should be a fairly simple process. There are lots of programs which will produce a PDF file for you. After that, all you need to do is find a route to market in order to sell your e-book. Many people elect to use Clickbank for this.

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?

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.

You can set the price of your e-book at whatever you wish. However, if you choose a price between $0.99 and $9.99, you will retain 70% of the sales price for any books sold. There is a small deduction to cover delivery charges. This 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 expect to make were you to sell a $97 e-book, the potential to achieve a large sales volume, coupled with the fact that the process is entirely free, may make it a profitable option for you.

The Kindle is often presented as a future of reading. Obviously, this may be applied to both books and, potentially at least, e-books. Publishing your own Kindle book could be an excellent opportunity for you to be involved, and to profit from, a new technology in its early, developmental phase. So why not consider a Kindle edition for the next e-book that you decide to publish?

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.