Profiting From Writting Your Own Ebook

As you might have heard, the Internet is all about information. Millions of people logon to the Internet each day searching for information. They're searching for everything from health and wellness to love and relationships. People crave information and will pay to get the info they want.

That's why ebooks are the hottest products on the Internet. It's digital information that's downloadable and therefore brings instant gratification to the user. In just a matter of minutes, you can have expert knowledge saved on your hard drive that you can read at your leisure. It can be printed out and made into a regular book. It's an incredible medium for writers and experts who would have before the Internet needed a publisher or magazine to print and sell their knowledge in book form.

The good news is just about anyone can write an ebook and sell it on the internet with virtually no cost. If you happen to be an expert on a particular subject then that's a definite plus but you need not be an expert on a subject to write an ebook. If you think that sounds ridiculous, just think back to your school days. How many times were you given an assignment to write a lengthy report on a subject you knew nothing about? I remember writing several reports in high school and college on subjects I knew nothing about. The end result was always a report that read like an expert on the subject had written it. How did I do it? Research of course. That's how we all did it. That was the whole purpose of the assignment. It was teaching you to conduct your own research and fact finding and then compiling that research into a report. You can use this same technique to write an ebook.

I'm going to reveal my age here. I remember way back in the 70's seeing an ad in a magazine for this rather interesting book. It was titled "How to Pick Up Women." It could only be bought through mail order. Unlike most books of the time the author of this book had an idea for a book that contained valuable information. Well, it was valuable to a whole lot of young men. The problem was that he was no expert on picking up women. So how did he write the book? Once again, research. Only this time the research involved conducting actual interviews with young women. That's right. He just went out and started interviewing the average woman on the street. He asked questions like "what attracts you to a man?" and "what characteristics to you find sexy in a man?" Interestingly enough, there were plenty of women who were willing to give a few minutes of their time to answer questions for a book.

After completing the interviews, he compiled the information into a book and then preceded to print copies of the book himself using an old printing press he had purchased. No publisher wanted to publish his book. They of course changed their minds when they saw how many of the books were selling. The author couldn't keep up with the orders. It seemed there were many thousands of men who wanted this information.

Now, 30 years later nothing has really changed. People are still in search of information. The good news is that you need not purchase a printing press to publish a book. You just need a computer and the power of the Internet. You can write your own ebook and start profiting almost right away. You can sell your ebook over and over again at almost 100% profit.

About The Author

Are You Tired of the scams and the get-rich-quick schemes? Greg Hayes is founding editor of http://www.mammothprofits.com/. Mammothprofits is the website devoted to helping others filter out the scams and become successful in a home based business.

ghayes@mammothprofits.com

In The News:


Authors Guild Warns on S&S e-Book Royalty Proposal
Publishers Weekly, NY - 11 hours ago
The alert further advises that members should “keep your powder dry,” when negotiating e-book royalty rates, suggesting that members try to retain the right ...
Web-Savvy Authors Reap Fame, Fortune Forbes
all 2 news articles

University researchers develop e-book reader
Diamondback Online, MD - Jul 16, 2008
Researchers from this university and the University of California, Berkeley, recently released a prototype of a new e-book reader aimed to revolutionize how ...

Report: Two new Amazon Kindle e-books planned
PC Advisor, UK - Jul 17, 2008
Amazon is preparing to release two models of its Kindle – the e-book reader it released in the US last year – according to one technology blog. ...

The Associated Press

AP Exclusive: A digital Albom through Kindle
The Associated Press - Jul 17, 2008
E-books are unquestionably growing although public sightings of the Kindle remain rare enough that one blog, Silicon Alley Insider, announced last month, ...

Textbooks, free and illegal, online
Boston Globe, United States - 21 hours ago
Some of the illegal texts available online are copied e-books, while others are paper editions that have been painstakingly uploaded page by page with ...

Waterstone's in e-book deal
Independent, UK - Jul 13, 2008
The launch is eagerly anticipated because e-books could ultimately have a similar impact on the book industry that MP3 devices have had on the music sector. ...
Borders.com Now Offering Thousands of Audiobook Downloads in MP3 ... Stockhouse
all 13 news articles

Sovo.com

E. Lynn Harris plays it straight
Southern Voice, GA - 19 hours ago
It’s my first book that doesn’t deal specifically with sexuality, even though there are a few little nuggets in there for true E. Lynn fans. ...
Harris goes straight in latest novel Ely Times
all 13 news articles

ABC News

Life With My Sister Madonna by Christopher Ciccone with Wendy Leigh
Times Online, UK - 6 hours ago
Ciccone's book is a vomitorium of cringy confessions. Madonna is labelled a myth-maker and a miser, who plies her brother with MDMA, has legs that look like ...
Madonna's brother unleashes a new, unauthorized tell-all Newsday
Memoir says Madonna's true love is herself The Associated Press
all 969 news articles

TechRadar.com

Jumbo colour e-books coming later this year
TechRadar.com, UK - Jul 15, 2008
Forget boring old monochrome electronic books like Sony's Librie and Amazon's Kindle – instead, start saving up for Fujitsu's new colour e-book that goes on ...

Digital sound invades publishing
United Press International, Asia, China - 12 hours ago
At the three-day Digital Publishing Fair held in Tokyo last weekend one such facility, called the e-Book voice synthesizing solution, was introduced by ...
e books - Google News

Your Guaranteed Path to Becoming an Information Product Money Machine

How To Turn Your Talks or Articles into Books, eBooks,... Read More

Top Ten Tips To Get Started Writing Your Book - Part 1

You are far more likely to successfully write and publish... Read More

Ebooks - How To Bring Them Into The Market

So, you have decided to start an ebook business. The... Read More

Your e-Book - 7 Best Reasons to Create Your First e-Book

1) Speed to market - One of the biggest problems... Read More

For Wannabe eBook Authors - 5 Key Questions

Are YOU ready for the eBook authoring adventure? Do you... Read More

Should You Write A Book?

Why would you want to take on such a task?A... Read More

Demand for E-books on the Increase

Demand for electronic books, or e-books, has created one of... Read More

7 Secrets to Explode your eBook Sales! Part 1

Secret #1: How to write an incredible eBook!Copyright 2004 Bluedolphin... Read More

The Problem With E-Books

One of the most popular online ventures is selling e-books.... Read More

How To Find HOT, Non-Internet Marketing Topics For Your eBooks

It's so tempting to write ebooks yet again, on "How... Read More

7 Secrets to Explode your eBook Sales! Part 2

Secret #2: Creating your Marketing Timeline for Success!Copyright 2004 Bluedolphin... Read More

Top Ten eBook Mistakes and How to Correct Them (Part 1)

Did you know that you already have an eBook inside... Read More

Self-Publish Your Ebooks Through ClickBank

There was a time when ebook publishing was seen as... Read More

More Than An Ebook

The following in an excerpt from the E-Book of the... Read More

Shorten Your Journey to Book Success with Teleclasses - Part 2

Are you an author who wants your book to be... Read More

eBooks: With Courage and Patience, We Are Getting There

Just how do we make the "e" in e-books stand... Read More

E-Book Writing Formats: How to Make the Words Flow

Nervous about writing your first e-book? Never fear. E-books are... Read More

How eBooks Can Be Used As An Online Business

Times are hard today! Though the economic data would indicate... Read More

Profiting From Writting Your Own Ebook

As you might have heard, the Internet is all about... Read More

How To Bring In Your First $100,000 With Infoproducts

Can you really earn a living creating and marketing ebooks,... Read More

The True Purpose of a Tips Booklet

"My topic doesn't fit into a how-to tips format."That comment... Read More

Reflection for Personal and Professional Development

Whatever you can do, Or dream you can, begin it.... Read More

6 Good Reasons For Writing An eBook

Electronic books also known as ebooks for short are one... Read More

How to Harness the Power of Ebooks for the Benefit of Your Website!

Ebooks can be a powerful tool when it comes to... Read More

Your First Step to a Digital Publishing Empire

The hardest part of writing is the first sentence. When... Read More