Who in here makes money off ebooks ?

Maybe...maybe you can have someone else write it and sell it on Amazon, seems like millions are trying this.

I don't know.

I do know about selling information products, have created scores of them, and they can be outsourced and sold, some for decades.

So, I'd encourage you to lose the ebook idea, and think about what sort of information people are buying.

gjabiz

Sure, I do. I wrote an eBook in my niche. It took about 1 month to write it. Launched it to my email list and sold about $4k in the first month. Now selling about 1 or 2 copies a day ($30 ebook). Just launched on Amazon, but no sales yet. It's best to have an audience to launch to first.

Selling eBooks can be very profitable. I personally have not released anything on Amazon but there are a lot of people who are doing it very successfully. It seems like the key is to find a hot niche, create a buzz for your book with free downloads, and slowly but surely get reviews and move up in the ranks. A lot of people have also talked about how effective it is to have multiple books in the same niche to cross promote. So it can definitely work but takes good research and effort to get it going.

I used to sell e-books in a non-IM niche. I've found selling physical books and physical products much easier to sell.

Yepp, just released my first ebook a month ago and sold about $150 worth. It was a book personally written by me.

I have my second book written and ready to go. I'm just working on the back-end of it tonight and will release it by tomorrow. (My second book is outsourced)

There's a lot of money to be made on Amazon, but a lot of the profits come from sending them to a free bonus, where they enter your sales funnel.

Making money off of the Amazon platform is very lucrative. There are all sorts of books you can write about ranging from fiction to traditional biographics about different people. With a book in a good topic, you can be making in thousands every single month fro royalties. Trust me, It's nice every once in awhile having your book grow online ad making you money without you ever doing anything in the future.

I agree with Clearspark in that it ideal to have an audience or at least some way to promote the ebook so that you can be successful if you go down the Amazon path.

I have heard people having success when they have had this support behind them. Its a bit like having affiliates promoting a product launch.

If you have already have experience with SEO and Affiliate Marketing why not create a free ebook and link that to an offer that you make money on?

I agree with selling it on your own, can make so much more.Or make a different version for Kindle and Nook.

eBooks can make great money if done right, I have some that have been making me money for many years. A few updates here and there.

many people make a lot of money with the method you mentioned. It requires both quality content being written by your writer, and good marketing by you!

Forget eBooks. Why?

1. Others will steal your content, spin it and sell it as their own.
2. A lot of IM efforts for only a couple of low-priced sales.
3. Most niches are saturated, so the competition is really, really stiff.

Create courses. Why?

1. Content is a little harder to steal, if done right.
2. Video marketing is easier, price is higher.
3. There are less courses than books out there.

Good luck!

What I have are not really eBooks, I have eCourses and they sell on Udemy (see my links in the signature) but I think it´s the same anywhere, doesn't matter if you sell eBooks, courses or whatever - the point is: have an interesting topic people want and market :-)

ebooks or ecourses = $$$

I'm actually in the process of creating my own ebook... so I'm pretty optimistic about it
I hear a lot of people do this in the beginning

I hired a writer for $40 and they made a 3.5k word eBook. If you have a couple of those up you can make decent money. I wouldn't do it if your on a budget tho. It takes time.

I agree with other WF members that ideally you need an audience to launch to initially. However amazon can be a great ebook seller but you need to drive traffic to it IMO. Get your ebook launched and then create a Facebook group to promote it.

If the book is good and the reviews are positive then you could definitely make some money. just make sure to offer some fresh information, there are already so many books written on affiliate marketing / SEO / keyword research topics (assuming this is what you want to write?).

Sure - started with ebooks, then evolved into higher-end information products, coaching and membership sites.

Vast majority of my ebooks are published outside of Amazon, though I have both physical and ebooks on Amazon. My approach for ebooks on Amazon is primarily as lead generators around higher end products.

That said, more than 75% of my ebook sales are outside of Amazon on Clickbank, and Ejunkie

Jeff

I write for people who make money off ebooks. Kindle is very very lucrative. You might want to look into Kindle books. Excellent source of passive income if you know how to work KDP right.

I've two kindle markets for myself and work with a couple of clients on their kindle projects.

My first book is a book I use to drive people to my site and create authority in my niche.

The second set of books are in a specific niche and account for about 70k worth of sales a year. These are promoted only using press releases and growth hacking/loyalty system.

For those doing courses I think this is a massive market and where the industry will go in the next 18 months but why not have the best of booth worlds and have one of your books on the reading list or sell a course book

I'm pretty new to IM and Kindle publishing works great for me. In my first 2 IM months I already make $200-$250/month of passive income from 2 kindle books that I outsourced each for $70.

It is nice idea for making nice looking and useful e-book. Hard part is advertising. You can start with forums and after that in Socials. Invest some money and the momey will come back into your pocket!

My ebook sells for 154.99 I sold 1 copy so far. I'm really new to all of this though. I want to bring on some affiliates to handle all of this sales stuff and pay them $100 a pop.

Shoot me a pm.

I personally do ebooks, but I don't sell on Amazon. I sell them as info products on niche forums and that works for me.

Sure..

The only question is..

Are you relying solely on your keyword ranking in amazon, or are you going to send traffic to it?

I've sold eBooks and made good money, but not on Amazon so far. I've always used WSO special offers for internet marketing books, ClickBank for other niches, and some on JVZoo as well.

eBooks that are fiction sell really well on the Amazon Kindle store.

I think of amazon as simply a payment processor. If I get some organic sales, great. But to be successful selling eBooks, you have to have your own audience that trusts you, building an email list over time

We have created and sold more than 14 different ebooks as well as several courses, membership sites, etc...

These days you want to think of an info product (or knowledge product) business rather than just an ebook.

What I mean is that you want to have a strategy to sell a lead-in (lower-cost) product and then have at least one (ideally two) upsell options for the more serious, desperate buyers.

In other words, let's say you have mastered a system of using SEO to get 10,000 visitors a month and get listed well for several top keywords - you could create the ebook around "beginner" methods such as basic page construction, getting inbound links, common mistakes, etc... Enough to give someone the basics to dramatically improve their SEO activity. The ebook could sell for $27

Then you also put together an "Advanced" course where you walk them through some of the key steps through video and perhaps show them some of the top SEO sites - even giving them a basic template - this you could sell for $197 or more...

Finally, you could put together a "Premium" offering where you design the training around a 30-day program with weekly coaching or Q&A calls, some personal reviews + some basic outsourcing services priced at say $597 or $997 depending on how turn-key you make it.

Now, you have multiple options for how you market these - you could take the ebook (or a summarized version of it) and put it up on Amazon for a low price where your objective is not really to make money on that ebook but to provide a funnel into the upsells (which you include inside the ebook)

OR you sell the up-front ebook for $17-$27 and either break-even by running aggressive advertising or give away the majority in commissions to affiliates in order to get WIDE coverage of the ebook - again with the intent of making your money on the back-end.

Having an ebook as "PART" of your knowledge product offering is the key to building a strong product profit stream.

Jeff

yes they do make them, But save your time get it for free www.maxcovers.com

if you want to make money, There is two things what you need
1. setup free blog account for free website.
2. setup Google adwords account ( put ur blogs url in adwords )

for sample if you click that website
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That person will get paid by if someone click on there link, That how I learn from Ebooks

eBooks have made profit for me since way back in 2001. Some are still floating around out there and continue to produce income from the affiliate links within them. Not into it much these days, but do release some under another brand.

I tinkered with some Amazon books and the time versus profit just wasn't there for me. But that is my experience. Have associate that is killing the Kindle market with $0.99 to $1.99 books but he is retired and has nothing else to do

The biggest thing I have learned about ebooks: When including links, use a URL shortening service that you have control over. There will come a time when you will need to change links...

There are many courses about making money selling kindle books, I have taken a few and the main take-away is a good niche you can conquer, create a series of books in the same niche and volume. The more books you get out there the more your name gets recognized. Quality content is a must plus the info must be in demand. Do lots of research then go for it. Just don't stop at one book.

I use payloads and kindle for e-book distribution, and both are super. Most of you will probably use kindle because it is from amazon. Both work great for me. Problem wilt e-books is that there are many poor ones. People need to know that you have a great product and stellar service. Spend a lot of time and money on an epic cover. Those sell books whether it is digital or paper. Also avoid titles that sound like spam. Here is one - magic credit cure.

Nice topic dear Clautusoar,
Ebook business with Kindle Amazon is very good business now a days. As before 6 months i created my ebook with my real case study on some topic and publish on Kindle Amazon and you will not belive that with some efforts of marketing i got amazing results and i made 1000+ sales within 1 month. so will suggest you to create a trust with your buyers and launch ebooks with Amazon kindle for getting huge sales ($$$).

Thanks.
Mukhtiar Ali Khan

I like digital products better than physical, overhead costs are much less, allows you to make much more profit. I have not posted any of my own products on Amazon, but have been an Amazon affiliate for a few years. Have not made much with them, but their commissions are also really low.

My experience with an eBook is one that I put together myself, but I am not selling it, I am using it as a free offer when people subscribe to my website's email list. It has done quite well in bringing in subscribers. I think it really helps to get a very nice looking cover image created for it - makes it look interesting and attractive I got my cover made on Fiverr.

Kindle is profitable but don't think it works in niches like MMO and IM.

and like Sandra said. be a specialist in a niche and release series of books. havin a list is always better but if not, you might have to depend on luck.

Have been selling ebooks and software since 2004 and for the last few years have been publishing on Kindle amongst other platforms and can say that Amazon can produce some income, but nothing to write home to Mom about unless you are writing about some pubescent vampires or wizards.

Ebooks have kinda become a commodity, so I would focus on creating some kind of online courses and use an ebook as a lead generator.

Now...if you are in the affiliate marketing and SEO space....consider having some software created to make whatever you do mostly automated. More bang for your buck as software or SAAS always holds its luster and you can charge more for it.

Rod

I've been thinking about putting a Kindle short book out there but there are over 2 million ebooks on Kindle and that makes me nervous. Authors have to constantly put marketing dollars into their books because of competition. I would definitely have a solid plan around this before putting it on Kindle.

I think making ebooks are always a good way to build your business. Whether you are using avenues like Kindle or using them as marketing magnets to build your list. Of course most of the time you are not going to hit a home run with just one book. Creat a number of them and see what the market likes and go from there.

Even if you use Kindle to distribute make sure your book is directing them to your website site, squeeze page or......

Not only is the book a money maker but a marketing tool.

I just read this transcript yesterday. Thought it might be useful for your question. MWQHJ 055: How Steve Scott Makes 6 Figures Selling Non Fiction Kindle Ebooks

I'd say it's worth creating and launching just for the experience.

However, Amazon wouldn't be my first choice of places to sell it.

Depending on the subject maybe you could launch it as a WSO.

Selling ebooks can be very profitable for you if done right and the ebook is of good quality. I never tried selling a ebook through amazon but I do know that works very well selling them through a email list especially to buyers list in the niche that the ebook is in.

I am doing an eBook.
But I will be giving it away for free.

I hope to make money for the video content I am creating.

I think you need to do some freebies to get people to at least look into you.

Just my two cents.

Mark

I have been in the cleaning business for over 10 years.

Last December I decided to write a book that tells people what I did and how they can do the same thing.

It sells for $49.95 and I sell around 3-5 per day.

To date only 2 refunds. But I sell directly from my blog as a PDF download, no amazon.

I'm not saying what you're doing is entirely wrong - lots of businesses do it. It's just not something I'd personally recommend doing and not something I've ever chosen to do myself.

I write fiction ebooks and sell through Kindle direct and several other ebook publishers. It can be a gold mine if you get a hot one.

Putting it on Amazon won't make you much money, even if you did your keyword research properly.
You'll need a list and promote it as well like a madman in order to get sales.

But you'll need to ask yourself; why bother with all that for a couple of bucks in sales, if you can use this content to make a video and sell an e-course for at least 10 times more money?

Hi, I'm about to start with my first ebook on Kindle and was wondering if someone can recommend a program that picks out the best categories and keywords to be shooting for. I saw one program but it was for a PC, I'm on a mac.
Could someone talk about how they decide what type of ebook they're going to write?

I sell several hundred copies of of $0.99-$2.99 books per month (average monthly income of $200-$300). It's not much, but I'll help you as much as I can.

Cover Image: This helps SO much. Even if my content is crappy, I'll still kill it in sales if the cover image rocks. With that being said, don't just skimp out on quality content either (if your'e a bad writer, have it outsourced).

Look up customer reviews on competing eBooks. Look at the negative reviews specifically. if the reviewer says the book was lacking "x, y, and z" then include that in your eBook.

For me, making money on Kindle is more of a numbers game. If you try really hard, you can probably launch 100 books per month at $0.99 cents each. You'd probably make $500 per month in passive income EASY.

A lot of work though LOL.

Get your cover done on Fiverr. Super nice covers there for $5. My eBooks are between 1,500 and 3,000 words each (you can pay someone $15 to $25 to write it for you). And that would be your only expenses pretty much.

Good luck.

Ive sold ebooks..

...the key is to get rid of the "book" idea


think of it like giving detailed solutions in a pdf..


that being said, does amazon have a "page cap" before a pdf can be called an "ebook"?

Ike Paz

Yes. You can make money writing and selling an ebook on Amazon. But it is important that you partner with numerous blogs, websites, newsletters, social media pages that review and promote e-books. The opinion of these reviewers affect ebook buyers. Below are 3 websites/blogs with large traffic:

Kindle Reader: The Kindle Reader Blog
GoodReads: http://www.goodreads.com
IndieReader: Advertise with IndieReader

Good luck!

Hi.
In my oppinion there are too much ebooks sold in Amazon.
I tried to sell an ebook on ebay, I just made 1 sell lol.
Of course it is not imposible to sell ebooks on amazon. But I think it must be a good one.
Again , this is my oppinion. I can be wrong.
regards.

Damien

The folks I know who are doing well write FICTION, not N-F. ;-) They write multiple books aimed at the same readers, they write in Series or Serial (depending on genre/sub-sub-sub-genre) They meet the readers' expectations, Covers and Titles are genre/sub-sub-sub-genre appropriate, and they know that no single book or even one series will be effective...

There is a pattern that once you reach a certain tipping point, sales begin to grow dramatically... Things HAVE changed since the WF went nuts over Kindle in 2012, but big money is still possible ;-)

How do I define Big Money? Obviously this will vary, so I say -- Life changing money is Big Money ;-)

ebooks are awesome, start with 1 and then expanding to multiple books is great

I'd forget Amazon, because of its tax, imposed on you. Focus on promotion yourself and reap 100% of the profit. Personally, I use an automated marketing software that my company developed and leave all the promotion to it, I only have to focus on the product itself.

Why is it that so many have advice and information to share regarding ebook or kindle book production and publishing, yet are so reluctant to offer a link to their work so that we may see examples of their advice and suggestions.

Or is this simply a NO NO

This market is becoming saturated in recent times...
But it's still possible to make money through ebooks.
Give off free one with relevant affilaite links in them.

or

Create a good one in a problematic niches, get affiliates and sell.

I still think courses make more money though but of course it involves more work

i tried, but it was hard. you need to promote your book in different ways and only in this way you will sell it out