How to create ebooks and sell them online

Everyone is an expert in something. Tens of Millions of people badly need your expertise. Sell you knowledge to them as ebooks and make money.

Creating an eBook and selling it online is not a rocket science. Any hardworking average person can do it. You don't have to be a great genius to write a marketable eBook. All you need is an idea and information related to it.

If you can write well, it is fine. Don't know how to write? No problem. You can hire someone who can write for you.

Ebook idea

I assume that you have read the article success strategies and have a unique business idea. If this idea involves transfer of knowledge, then you can successfully start an eBook business.

For example, parents of any new born baby face the problem of finding a suitable name. There are a few books on this theme in paper format in the market. 99.99% of such Indian books are not listed on Amazon.com. This means most non-resident Indians would not be able to buy these books. You can create an eBook on this topic, sell it on web and make money. Your cost of production will either be zero or negligible. You can sell such eBooks for $10 or more.

Here are a few other topics that have helped people make money. This list shows that anything can be sold if it is useful and marketed well:

• Learn Ikebana -  Beginner's Guide to Japanese Flower Arranging
• Learn Chinese cooking
• How to get scholarships for college education
• How to teach your dog to do useful things
• Learn how to play piano in 10 days

I am writing a long article on eBooks and hope to publish in Cash Courses section of this website soon. However, if you are in a hurry, you can get a basic idea now and start your research on the internet from this webpage.

What is an eBook

Ebook is a long document, a long report, or a book that is in digital format. Though there are many file formats. Acrobat PDF is the most popular one. You must create your eBooks in PDF format because it has many advantages over other formats.

An eBook, or electronic book, is a book that you can read on a computer screen. It is basically a software. If you can use this webpage, then you can use an eBook.

If you want to read a word document and spreadsheet you need software such as Word and Excel. Similarly, Acrobat Reader, an eBook software, allows you to read eBooks easily and comfortably. Adjusting the font, turning the pages, and searching are easy with Acrobat reader.

Creating eBook

If you are a professional designer, you can use Adobe FrameMaker, InDesign or QuarkXpress to create beautiful eBooks. If you an amateur, you can use Microsoft Word to create eBooks.

Microsoft Word has many built-in templates to create long documents and books. Use one of them to create your Word document that contains your knowledge.

Then if you have Adobe Acrobat, drag your Word document into Acrobat interface and you will get your PDF book that is ready for sale.

If you don't have Acrobat go to the website of adobe.com. They will convert your document into PDF format for free. In addition, there are dozens of other software programs that help you make eBooks in PDF format.

Marketing eBooks

Once you have a great eBook, it's time for you to make money. The steps involved in the process are:

• Creating a website that markets your eBook
• Promoting the website
• Accepting payment and processing transaction

Creating a website has already been covered in many articles in SeekLuck.com.

Using offline and online methods you can pull traffic (visitors) to your websites. If you are not willing to spend money on traffic, you will have to submit to search engines and wait for your website to be included in their index. However, if you are willing to spend some money on search engine ads such as Google AdWords or MSN AdCenter, you can start attracting visitors in less than 5 minutes.

When the visitors want to buy your product, how will you accept payment and deliver your eBook? If the buyers are within your country, you can accept payment by cash or bank draft and send the eBook by email or on a CD-ROM. However, if they are from a foreign country, the issue becomes complicated. Fortunately there are many online transaction processing companies such as DigiBuy that will handle your transactions, receive payment, deliver your eBook to your customers and send you the payment after deducting their commission.

Because the concept is new to you, your mind may imagine that this business model is not for you. Actually anyone with some knowledge in an useful thing can make money through eBooks.

As I said in the beginning, I have given a few hints here. Please do your research on eBooks and start a profitable business now. If you are not in a hurry, please wait for my long article that gives detailed information.