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Showing posts with label EBOOKS. Show all posts

How to make money selling ebooks

selling ebooksSelling ebooks on internet is becoming very popular day by day,The best thing about these ebooks that you only have to write one copy and you can make money selling ebooks over and over ,It's becoming a great business and is a descent way to make money online.Most ebooks have now resale rights now you don't even have to write your own ebook,you can make money by selling these ebooks.

HOW TO MAKE MONEY SELLING EBOOKS


If you are serious about making money with ebook,First descide on what topic you are going to write your ebook,there are many categories,and you surely want your ebook to be unique and successful right?Do some research about your topic,if you are writing about kids,pets,environment then do some research on it.Making money online isn't easy you have to do some hardwork.once you start putting your hardwork and efforts then you are onto your way to make money with ebooks.

Once you have done all the research start writing your ebook,be specific about your content,and also be clear  to your readers,surely you don't want to confuse your readers.once you done with the writing find a website for selling ebooks.you can choose any wabsite for selling ebooks,but it's always good to pay rather then free service because in free website your ebook is not featured while in the paid service you have better chances to makw money with ebooks.If you have website then you can also sell you ebook on your website or on your blog.it's free and if you have some traffic then you have more chances of make money with ebooks.

selling ebooksselling ebooks is not an easy job in order to make money with ebooks you also need to promote your ebook,well if you want to make money with ebooks promotion is necessary,you can promote your ebook on your blog or website,social networking is the best way for promotion,start promoting your ebooks on facebook,Google+,twitter and on other social networking sites,once you start promoting your ebooks you will automatically find the way to make money selling ebooks.

If you don't want to write ebooks then you can also use others to make money with ebooks.you can buy cheap ebooks to sell,as i told you above that now days many ebooks comes with resale rights,you can use it to make money selling ebooks.There are many websites where you can find reasonable and cheap ebooks.

Once you find start seeling ebooks on your blog,website or on any other platform that you like.


selling ebooks is a great way to make money online and one should try selling ebooks online to make some money for pocket.selling ebooks doesn't required rocket science,you just need to create one copy which can make money for you over and over again,selling ebooks free is also  a good way to make money but as i told you that it's better to pay rather then getting it free.so start selling ebooks and make money online.

Top 10 Best selling Ebook



eBook sales have shot through the roof. Who'd ever have imagined that reading books electronically would become so popular? Unlike print books, ebooks can be be bought "there add then", no more waiting around for the postman to bring your next precious reading material. Simply log on and click the buy the ebook of your choice, and it will download directly to your e-reader or computer as quickly as your internet provider allows.
Whether you are using a Kindle or some other form of electronic reader, your ebook is there for you to read and enjoy whenever you want.
While all the biggest best sellers in the world are available on ebook, many new authors have found the ebook format to be perfect to self-publish and become known, without being at the whim of publishing houses, who, let's face it, have made a few mistakes in the past, by not publishing what later became the most popular books ever.
Here is a current list of the top 10 best selling ebooks on the market today.

A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard

#1 best selling ebook
A Stolen Life is the title of the memoirs of Jaycee Dugard who you may have read about on the news. Jaycee was the little girl kidnapped and detained against her will for an incredible 18 years, during which time she became a sex slave for perverted Phillip Garrido and his equally perverted wife.
Just 11 years old at the time of her abduction, read how Jaycee survived by remembering the good times with her Mom and you can't help but admire the depth of inner strength that this girl/young woman showed and continues to show today.
Released from her urban Hell in 2009 (she was detained a back garden shed for all those years and neighbors noticed nothing), she now has a new life to rebuild with her two daughters (born from her forced sexual entrapment to Phillip Garrido).
Parts of the proceeds of this books will be directed to the J A Y C Foundation, set up by Jaycee, so offer support to victims of abduction.

A Dance With Dragons by George R R Martin

#2 best selling ebook
A Dance With Dragons is the 5th book in the series, A Song of Ice and Fire, by George R R Martin.
Set in an "other world", A Song of Ice and Fire is an epic classic up there with J R Tolkein's "Lord of The Rings", and follows the fortunes and wars of the Seven Kingdoms. A mix of the historical with kings and queens and fights to the death amid old castle walls with the magical and unreal, A Song of Fire and Ice has captured the public imagination.
The complete series up to date includes books 1 to 5. The full series is planned to stretch to seven books, but two are as yet unwritten.

The Help, by Kathryn Stockett

#3 best selling ebook
Set in Mississippi in the 1960s, The Help is a wonderfully told story about a young white women who decides to write a book about the treatment meted out to the black women who were often hired as Home Helps to rich white women.
At a time just before the Civil Rights Movement came into being, Kathryn Stockett has brought this book alive with real life characters and a factual historical setting. Gripping from page 1, The Help is a marvellous book that will keep you turning the pages (theoretically of course, seeing this is the ebook version), wanting to know what happens next.
Now being turned into a major Hollywood movie, read the book now.

The Help - Official Trailer


The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

#4 best selling ebook
Aimed primarily at teenagers/young adults, The Hunger Games is the first in a trilogy of books about a futuristic America (now re-named Panem) in which televised reality shows have taken a step too far.
Now two young teenagers from each of the 12 regions of Panem must fight to the death in front of the whole nation who by Law must watch the program.
Our heroine is 16 year old Katness Everdeen is steps in to take the place of her younger sister who was initially chosen to take part in the Hunger Games.
Not to be missed. Might be aimed at teenagers, but this trilogy suits all ages. Excellently written by Suzanne Collins.

Heaven is For Real by Todd Burpo

#5 best selling ebook
Heaven is for Real is the amazing and heart-warming story of a little boy who "died" on the operating table for a short period of time.
Told by his father, Todd Burpo, a Nebraska pastor, it describes how young Colton amazed his family by telling them about his experiences while dead, from floating over the operating table to meeting God In Heaven.
He described meeting his grandfather, who had died years before Colton was even born, and describing him in sufficient details for his parents to be almost awestruck, because this little boy could not have known those things.
He also told his parents about meeting his sister, who had been stillborn and of whom Colton had known nothing.
Heaven is for real is inspirational and comforting to those who have recently lost loved ones, as it gives hope to an eternal meeting with those we have lost.

Go The F**k to Sleep by Adam Mansbach

#6 best selling ebook
Go The F**k To Sleep is a light-hearted look at something every parent faces or must have faced at some point in their lives. What to do when your child refuses to go to sleep.
Some children devise some pretty incredible excuses as to why they should stay up, and this book explores them in such a way that will have you grinning from ear to ear.
Never again will bedtimes be a battleground, as you will be laughing thinking about the scenarios in this excellent book by Adam Mansbach.
A fun read - but only for parents. Guaranteed not to be understood by parents to be, as you really have to have been there and experienced this to relate closely to Go The Fk to Sleep.

The Big 5-OH! by Sandra D Bricker

#7 best selling ebook
The Big 5-OH! is a laugh out loud summer fun read that will hook you in from page 1. A first novel by Sandra D Bricker, she introduces us to Olivia Wallace, who dreads her fast approaching 50th birthday.
All her life, as far back as she can remember, she has suffered calamities on her birthday. On her 16th, she had her first broken heart, on her 21st she was involved in a car accident, and so on down the line. Each year was some new disaster and very few of her birthdays had passed without some major bad event.
On her 48th birthday she had been told be had ovarian cancer, and now almost 2 years later she was cancer-free, after having gone through chemotherapy.
He hair has just grown back, she is starting to feel attractive again, but what great calamity awaits her?
A superb book and an excellent first novel. No doubt we will be hearing more from Sandra D Bicker.

Smokin' Seventeen by Janet Evanovich

#8 best selling ebook
In this latest Stephanie Plum offering by Janet Evanovich, Stephanie Plum, New Jersey bounty hunter, finds herself involved in a case involving bodies showing up on a disused building allotment.
But its Stephanie's private life that has shocked readers in this 17th Stephanie Plum novel.
She's had on off relationships with both ranger and Joe over the years, but n this book she sleeps with both men (though at different times). Many readers feel that the character of Stephanie Plum has not grown, and has in fact regressed.
That said, it would seem that Smokin' Seventeen is a significant improvement over Janet Evanovich's last two novels.

Before I Go to Sleep by S.J.Watson

#9 best selling ebook
Before I Go to Sleep by S.J.Watsonhas a deeply disturbing concept that will certainly make you think.
In this book, a middle-aged woman wakes up every day with no recollection of the final 20 odd years of her life.
Thanks to a head injury years before, she suffers from a weird type of memory loss that kicks in every time she goes to sleep.
So she wakes up next to her husband, having no idea who he is, or what she is doing. Even her own facial reflection frightens her as she does not recognise herself, except for the eyes.
She has been keeping a diary, on which she has scrawled "Don't trust Ben". Ben is the name of her husband.
Read on as she tries to find out why she wrote this, and when, with the added handicap of having to start each day afresh with no memory from the day before.
Invariably described as "unputdownable", Before I Go to Sleep will draw you in and keep you gasping for more.
An excellent first novel by author S.J. Watson.

Eyes Wide Open by Andrew Gross

#10 best selling ebook
Eyes Wide Open is a thriller that is chock full of suspense and cliff-hangers that will draw you in and keep to reading right through to its terrifying conclusion.
Andrew Gross, author of three previous best selling books The Blue ZoneDon't Look Twice and The Dark Tide on his own, plus co-author of 5 best selling James Patterson books, does not disappoint with his latest offering, which is a page turner than will draw you in and carry you along.
A son has died. But what he pushed or did he jump? His family battle to find out the answers.

Google eBooks Free Download and Amazing Digital Library


Awesome news for book and ebook lovers because we can now have an amazing digital library and bookshelf of our own whenever wherever with the new Google eBooks. We can now download free ebooks and read them online and offline.
Google ebooks
Google eBooks was more spectacular than the fireworks of the New Year. This is another breakthrough from Google opening the year 2011. The launching of Google eBooks last December 6, 2010 has brought lots of cheers to many and I’m one of them. I’m still smiling until now lol Why not! This is one freaking cool idea from google. You can now chillax and save your time from arranging your favorite books in your shelf, avoid the hassle of recalling wherever you put down that damn book and saving your energy from going to that bookstore or online bookstore just to buy the latest NY bestseller. Because having one Google eBooks account means having all the pleasure of unlimited access to your own digital library without having a sweat to sort all books according to your tastes. Now, I’m thinking…libraries may be obsolete soon.
Another cool thing about google ebooks is that you can access your ebook library anywhere and go to that page where you have left off. One click to your google account and you’re into your ebooks library. Obviously, you don’t have to bring with you Sylvia Plath or LJ Smith or Becca Fitzpatrick in a trip to Europe. Save your luggage from your fave books. All you need is your ipad, ipod touch, iphone, Nook, Android, laptop or any ereader gadget and bam, all your ebooks appear! You can also read your ebooks offline by syncing to your gadgets and transferring the ebooks onto your other devices. By the way, google ebooks doesn’t work with Kindle yet. Well at least not as this moment. Amazon’s Kindle is their rival.
Google eBooks is a great help for students who want easy access and free downloads of millions of articles and essays. Literature textbooks are also amongst the free ebooks. With the google ebooks web, it’s one huge library because you’ve got unlimited storage of ebooks. Wow!
Before I forget, Google eBooks’ ebookstore online is in the meantime only available in the United States. You know how Google works. Eventually, all countries could completely use this amazing ebookstore online. But anyone anywhere can download all their free ebooks though. Just download the free ones for a while. :)
To make everything clear, here’s a video from google ebooks brought to us of course by Google. Just don’t mind the colorful hardcovers…lol
Google eBooks free download
Yeah I’ve mentioned earlier that anyone can download ebooks for free from Google eBooks. Just go tohttp://books.google.com/ebooksand you can downlooad the free ebooks you want. They’ve got over three million ebooks available to either download or purchase. All you have to do is go to google ebooks website and choose over the millions of books you want and store in your own library. You can search the books that you want and download them with your ereader gadget. To do that, you have to sign in to your google account. To search for the tons of free downloadable ebooks, go to the ebooks website I mentioned. That's the official Google eBooks homepage.
Google eBooks can run to all these gadgets
Google eBooks for Android
To use the google ebooks feature to your Android, just go this link and send Android app to your phone. Google eBooks is compatible with phones running Android 2.1 (Eclair) or later. You can store an average of 16,000 ebooks having their 32 gb capacity. Wow, awesome!

Google eBooks for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch
Google eBooks of course runs with the Apple iPod, iPad and iPhone with iOS 3.0 or later. Go to this link and download the app to start enjoying the pleasure of google ebooks on your gadget. Online and offline, you can read your fave books. How amazing!

Google for Nook
As mentioned, Google eBooks can be sync in Barnes & Noble Nook™ and Nook Color™. You can transfer all your ebooks by doing all the instructions.

Google for Sony Reader
For those who use the Reader™ from Sony, google ebooks will run after following the steps in the link. Enjoy and happy reading!

Google ebooks for Kindle
Like I said, google ebooks doesn’t run in Kindle at this moment.

Google eBooks to other eReader gadgets
Google eBooks also works with any ereader gadget that is supported by Adobe eBook platform. To see the complete list of such supported devices, go here. To transfer your google ebooks, follow the instruction on the link

How to sell your book in Google eBooks?
Heard some queries about how to sell a book in Google eBooks. Google has partnered with lots of publishers. They’re still growing in numbers. And if your publishing company are linked with these book sellers, your book will be automatically in google ebooks. If you’re an independent publishers and wants to sell your book in the Google ebookstore, you can by contacting their service support. At this moment, that area / feature is not yet displayed in their website as Google eBooks has just been launched last month, December 2010. Anyway, I’ll keep you posted with that matter.
Google ebooks

15 Website to download Free ebook


10 Best Websites for Booklovers

1. Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is a repository of all the free texts that are in the public domain. It is the Internet's oldest web portal that stocks the largest colelction of FREE electronic books that you can use legally. Billions of volunteers from all over the world scan, create, proof-read, edit and maintain this ebook collection. You can download the entire collection or individual books as a plain txt file.
2. eSnips
eSnips is a place for sharing ebooks, mp3 songs, photographs or paintings. You can list your creations for free or set a price and sell them here. eSnips is really a grown market place. You can download the books as individual pdf files. Also, you can find some good quality audio books when you search site with "audio book".
3. Scribd
Scribd is another document sharing website where people share lots of their e-books. This is the coolestdocument sharing web service that you may ever come across. You can download the ebooks in various formats such as .doc, .pdf or plain text files.
4. WikiBooks
WikiBooks is another project from the creators of Wikipedia. Like Project Gutenberg, this is also a free collection of e-texts created by volunteers all over the world. The books are available in various international languages. You may use these texts in your creations as long as you credit the source properly (Always check the license before you use).
5. Full Books
Full Books lists thousands of free text books neatly arranged alphabetically. You can only read online, but you can copy and paste page-by-page which is a tedious task if a book
6. Wiretap
Wiretap, just like Project Gutenberg, is another probably the single useful gopher resource remaining on the Internet. They plan to be considerably expanding our offerings in the near future. More books, more authors are coming soon.
7. Free Classic Audiobooks
Free Classic Audiobooks is a place where you can download or listen to audiobooks. The files are available as .mp3 or .mp4 and you can directly download to your iPods or mp3 player for free.
8. Digital Classics
Digital Classics Zinio is a place where you can browse and read books and magazines for free. The books appear as it is leather-bound and you can turn pages and read them at your own pace.
9. Read Print
ReadPrint is a free online library. It lists thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast. It includes poems and articles on various topics.
10. Planet eBook
Planet eBook is the home of free classic literature. All the novels and books are entirely free for you to download and share.
Ebooks

Five Bonus Sites: Chicken Soup for Booklover's Soul

Read at Work is a site which will allow you to books at work. Your boss when walks past will think that you are actually work on the official presentation. Cool trick, right? See it to believe it.
BookCrossing is a the most popular book sharing site. People exchange books for free and these clubs exist in almost every city in the world. People drop books at designated places and log that in the bookcrossing website, some others pick it up, read and then pass it on. It is all free.
BookMooch is a place where you can trade books. Yea, you post a book to a BookMooch user and you will get a book that you like from another user. You have to send out at least 1 book for every 2 you receive. If you don't keep this ratio up, you won't be able to mooch any books, even if you have the points, until you improve your ratio. Sending internationally counts as 3 books.
Book Summary is a site where you can read reviews of books.
ODEO is a place where you download or listen to millions of podcasts and mp3 audio - speeches, music and more for FREE.

How to ePublish Your eBook for eReaders: Kindle, Sony, Nook and Others


Self-Publishing Your eBook

They have only been around a few years: Amazon's Kindle, Sony's Sony Reader, Barnes and Noble, Nook, Apple iPad, and already they have seriously changed how eBooks are ePublished. In case you have been in a cave technology-wise, all of the above are eReaders (e is for electronic) that are purchased and the books you want are eBooks that are downloaded for a fraction of what a standard book sells for. That is why they are so popular. A book that normally sells for $25 may only be $5. The eReaders also have the benefit of carrying hundreds of books in digital files, so no need for book shelves and books.
All of the standard book method about publishing have gone out the window when it comes to eBooks. This is why ePublishing the book yourself may make you serious money. Many hardbound books are now also eBook versions. There is no real difference between the two, content-wise.
An eBook is an XML doc. Converting a Word .doc or PDF type file is generally what happens and one must know certain guidelines while you are in either type file before conversion, because an eReader is different. The biggest sellers of eBooks are Sony Reader and Apple iPad, Amazon's Kindle is the third largest. A printed book version with an ISBN number is NOT the same ISBN used when the same book is converted to eBook, in fact, the ISBN is not needed by some sellers (both Sony and Apple do require it). Even if you had a publisher of your hardbound book, you, as the author, can sell the ebook version at 70% royalty. The publisher of the hardcopy is only in control of that version.
You can upload your .doc\PDF directly in Amazon's Kindle, setup an account, set the price and royalty. If the upload is approved, it goes online and is sold in the USA, in UK, in Germany. It is easy. Amazon also will send the book to other eBook sellers like iPad, Barnes and Noble etc. Unlike B&N, there is no limit as to the size in MB of the file. It's competitor, the Nook, is a Barnes and Noble product. You can do the same with it on their site once you sign up, setup etc. They only take files no larger than 20 MB. They sell mainly in the US. They do not accept PDF files.
Both Sony and Apple use a service called Smashword, their site is smashwords.com. You use the same methods as the others, their acceptance is stiffer for eBooks because Apple and Sony read the XML files differently. You file could be rejected for a variety of formatting issues that you must find and fix. Once approved, the ebook may go to all of the eBook publishers named and many more. The critical factor for seeing your eBook on iPad or Sony reader is it must have the ISBN number for the eBook, which is not the same as the hardcopy book. So, you will have to get it.You are also limited to a 5 MB upload file, which means your book cannot have a lot of images. If you do not care, just post on Amazon and B&N, which do not require the numbers. Smashwords indicates that 35% of the readers prefer PDF, yet, oddly, they do not accept it, 15% of the readers prefer Kindle. Another 22% preferred Epub, which is Smashwords product.
Formatting Tips
Since all eReaders display things differently, the following are tips:
  • Keep font size to 18 pt or less (12 pt is best)
  • Create a copyright page
  • Images should be less than 2 MB and be at least 600 pixels wide x up to 2000 long (just be within those specs)
  • Use single returns after paragraphs
  • Use either Times Roman, Arial, or Courier New fonts only
  • If using caps in all letters of a word, use Capslock button
  • Try to avoid using double columns on a single page
  • Do not use super or sub scripts
  • For paragraphs, either indent by using the Tab on the first sentence OR use block paragraphs with a 6 pt. font space afterwards. 
  • Never use  more than 5 consecutive paragraph returns as it creates blank pages in an eBook
  •  Never indents with space bar spaces or tabs
  • Do not use tables or graphs unless saved as an image
There are many more. I have found Amazon's ePublishing method the best and easiest. It allows larger files in more formats, they sell to millions here and in Europe. Second, is B&N. My advice is to publish your ebook on them all to earn the most income.