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 is one new option available to you for publishing your e-book which you may not have considered at this time. Amazon's Kindle e-book reader is a hot gadget right now. It's a very nice piece of personal electronic equipment. The fact that almost every new e-book reader which is released and which shows any potential is immediately dubbed their "Kindle Killer" is a clear demonstration that the Kindle is not only the market leader, but is the benchmark against which all other e-book readers are measured. The important thing for you, as an Internet marketer, is the fact that more people have Kindles than any other type of 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?

Well, putting it simply, as well as being a new way of reading, the Kindle also makes new methods of publishing available. Anyone with an Amazon account can publish their own Kindle e-book. It's as easy as saving a Word document in HTML format and uploading it to the Amazon website. Within a matter of minutes (it really is that easy) you could have your e-book showcased by the largest bookseller in the world!

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.

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!

Discover how you could make money thanks to the Amazon Kindle - selling Kindle books could be very profitable for you.