Should You Publish Your Next E-Book On The Amazon Kindle?

For many Internet marketers e-books are one of the cornerstones of their online business. Whether as an affiliate or an author, most online marketers will have sold or at least given away (maybe 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 written it yourself or have bought PLR rights, publishing your e-book is very simple. There are plenty of programs which will generate a PDF file for you. All that you need to do is market your e-book. Clickbank is a very popular option 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 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!

As long as you set the price of your e-book between $0.99 and $9.99, Amazon will let you keep 70% of the sales price – minus a few cents for the delivery of the book (the delivery fee depends upon how many kilobytes the book takes up). This may be somewhat less than you might typically make selling a $97 e-book – whether as an affiliate or an author – but the potential for large sales volumes, and the fact that the process is free, may make it worth your while in the long run.

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!

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