Selling eBooks can give you millions, even without you writing them! Here are tons of ideas on how to make money online selling eBooks. 

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Making money writing eBooks

Gone those days when writers used to strive for getting their books published. Amazon self publishing and other self publishing platforms have ease your life in case you love to write something out. You can simply write and publish your book by yourself without any heck. Here is how:

Find the Topic

The first step towards your eBook writing process must be finding the topic you love to read and write about. You will have sound knowledge and interest this way. To further dig it, use Amazon’s best seller page for the topic you write about. 

Even if you don’t intend to publish on Amazon, search it on Amazon so that you might know what people love to read. If possible, read one or two of these books so that you know your standards to meet. 

For instance, I love to read about fitness books. If I ever intend to write something about fitness, I will go to Amazon Kindle, Select the Fitness category, and see what are best sellers in this category. It will help me find what people love to read in this category. 

As an aid to your research, install a Chrome Plugin named “KDP/Amazon BST & Keyword Research SEO Tool”. It will help you in the research regarding the SEO and competition of your intended topic. 

Outline and gather content

Once you have finalized the topic, it’s time to be some more practical. 

If you love the topic, you must have read enough about it. All you need is to outline everything you want to put together, read more about the topic, and start writing. To find relevant books, you can use Project Gutenberg or Open Source Library. Let’s know about some helpful tools to write eBook:

Start Writing

Now it’s time to write! You can reserve an hour a day to write. Provide the value to the readers. Don’t write fully formally. Try to be direct with the reader. 

Here are some tools that will make your writing process smooth:

Canva

It is an all in one solution if you want to publish your eBook in pdf form. You can simply search for eBook in canva search and it will show you plenty of ready made templates. It offers you options to add pictures, elements, and a lot more customization. We recommend this option if you are creating an eBook to publish on a platform other than Amazon Kindle. 

Kindle Create

If you want to publish on Kindle, there is nothing better than Kindle Create by Amazon. It is provided by Amazon officially and provides you every possible option to create an amazing eBook. 

In this way, you can complete the eBook following your outline. You can make changes in the outline as per the need of the topic. Your eBook must contain at least 20,000 words, though it is not a rule of thumb.  

Proofreading

Once you are done with the writing, it is time to proofread your book. This process is really important because once your reader realizes your mistakes, he/she will ultimately complain about this in the form of bad review and will no longer be interested in your Store in future. 

So, if possible, get it reviewed from a trusted friend before publishing it. Even better if you could get it proofread from a professional service on any freelancing platform. 

If no other option is available, keep Grammarly installed in your system. 

Another important thing to consider is the Cover of your eBook. Keep it professional so that your eBook might not look horrible even before a purchase. If possible, invest some pennies to get a professional eBook cover designed. Freelance marketplaces are best option to go with. 

Publishing

Once you are done with proofreading of your eBook, it’s time to publish your eBook on your store. If you haven’t made a Storefront already, make it. Payment method will be critical to start with. You can set PayPal or Payoneer to receive payments. There are a lot of publishing platforms like: 

• Kindle
• TeeSpring
• Payhip

The list goes on. But the famous and trusted one are these. Each platform gets a share when someone buys your eBook. You can also publish your eBook at a time at all these platforms. 

Marketing your eBook

Here the real deal begins. The first sale is no less than a fest. But you need to toil and wait for that. For effective marketing of your eBook, you can use: 

• Facebook ads
• YouTube (if you have a channel)
• Guest Posts about your eBook
• Your own blog (if you have any)

But don’t forget to target the relevant audience. You cannot simply sell air coolers in an iceland. 

Making money online selling eBooks without writing them by yourself

You might not be interested in the process but still want to make use of the eBook market. Well there are still some ways to make money online selling eBooks even if you don’t write them by yourself. Here is how: 

Published already written content

If you own something like a blog or YouTube Channel, you can simply make little changes to your content and combine the pieces into an eBook. It won’t need much hard work. All you need to do is formatting it into a decent-looking eBook. 

If you don’t have a pre-written piece of content, here is a solution for you to make life easier:

Outsource an eBook

Thousands of freelancers are there to write an eBook for you. That won’t cost you much. All you need is search for some freelance writer who has sound command on the topic you need to write about. You can also search for a local one if it costs less. Otherwise, the freelance marketplace is there for you. 

How to make more money from your eBook?

Just selling eBook and making money from this specific eBook is not a really smart way of making money selling eBooks. You can add plenty of options to enhance your revenue options. These are following: 

Add affiliate links to your eBooks (Not recommended for Amazon Kindle)

You can add your affiliate links in your eBooks. Amazon doesn’t recommend it in your Kindle books. But you can use this option at other platforms. It will boost your revenue. 

Add links to your blog/channel

You should add links to your Blog/channel or website in your eBook. If you don’t have one, create a blog today. The readers will click the link, visit your blog or channel, increasing the revenue options for you.

Over to you now!

So, if you want to write an eBook, or even if you don’t want to write, you can enjoy the fruit. Follow this process and don’t forget to add more smart ways to your revenue options. 

Do you want to add some more ways in these? Drop a comment below

And tell me about your favourite way. Will you write from scratch, or outsource your first eBook? Let me know in the comments below.