Ebooks is the future of publishing industry and the growth of ebook market in the last decade tells the story . So if you are a dedicated freelance writer or consider yourself as an independent author then publishing your writing in form of ebooks can be a good option for you. Ebook publishing is easy and with the advent of powerful ebook publishing platforms more and more authors have started to publish ebooks.
Most ebooks publishing sites shares a minimum of 60 to 75 with their authors depending on where you publish.
Publishing
Smashwords has empowered independent authors like never before. They publish ebooks not only in their marketplace but they also publishes it in all major ebook retailers like B&N and amazon kindle etc. Thus the amount of money you can make from your ebooks is immense as it get published in all major platforms. This also gives you necessary exposure as an author. Smashwords converts ebook {.doc file } in all possible file format through their inbuilt converter know as metagrinder and to pass this metagrinder you have to format your ebooks properly . But formatting your ebooks is very tough job and can take even hours to format properly .
Self Publishing Ebooks With Smashwords
Lulu is also an publishing platform which publishing everything from cookbooks to calenders to ebooks. Lulu also has a page rank of 8 and is no 1 in self publishing industry. With such a high page rank your ebook is bound to receive lot of exposure and traffic. Most lulu’s ebook authors have done well in terms of both revenue and sales. Publishing an ebook with lulu is also easy and simple and takes a matter of few minutes. Thus lulu can offer you great opportunities.
Self Publishing Ebooks With Lulu
Self Publishing Ebooks With Youpublish
Writing
Writing an ebook is not that tough as you can turn your articles into an ebook.By converting your “own” articles into ebooks you don’t have to worry about copyrights. If you have 50 articles in sites like bukisa or triond then you can easily turn them into a 40 page ebook and slap a price tag of anywhere between to .Thus selling atleast 10 ebooks a month can bring you an additional income of to dollars and this is with just one ebook but if you publish more ebooks then you can expect to earn more.
Promoting
Promoting an ebook can undoubtedly give you more sales. All publishing platforms gives an dedicated download page for your ebooks , so promoting your download page is crucial for getting success. Promoting your ebooks in squidoo , hubpages and your blog can drive extra traffic to your ebook download page.You can also create your marketing campaign to properly promote your ebook.A major part of your ebook’s success depends on your marketing and promoting skills.
Ebooks can make you money but it cannot make you rich . After all it will all depend on your hard work and dedication.
So work hard and good luck !
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Written by Rajarshi Guha