Writing and Selling Ebooks for Profit

Make a Living Writing for Yourself

Hundreds of people today are engaging in a new type of small business; they are selling ebooks they have written themselves, and making a decent profit. If you can write a good ebook, and then keep writing them, you will have a slowly-building regular income from its sales.

Can You Write An Ebook?

Answer the following questions:

Do I know a lot about a specialized subject that not many books have been written about? (check Amazon for other books.)

Do I have the ability to write reasonably well?

Do I have the stick-to-itiveness to complete a book?

Do I understand how to market my own products, or am I willing to learn?

If you can answer these questions affirmatively, then writing ebooks is something you should try.

Choosing A Topic

Your ebook topic must meet two criteria: it must be something that you, the writer, know well or can find out about; and it must be something that other people are very interested in learning about. For instance, one excellent topic is a book of dieting tips, hunting tips, fashion tips, car-buying tips -- you get the drift.

In addition, your topic, while it can be obscure, should be large enough for you to write at least 35,000 words on. This is about a hundred pages if you write your text in Word. It should also be a subject that interests you enough to stick to it for all hundred of those pages.

Sticking To It

Chop your topic into bite-sized pieces. Each piece can be either a chapter or an individual tip/entry/whatever. With chapters, try to make them at least two pages long -- but as a general rule of thumb, short chapters will work better because readers will have an easier time digesting them. You'll also have an easier time writing those short chapters.