Should You Publish A Kindle Edition Of Your E-Book?

E-book sales are an important factor for many Internet marketers. The majority of online marketers will have sold e-books at some point.

At the moment, the majority of e-books are published in PDF format, suitable for the ubiquitous Adobe Acrobat reader. Practically everybody has a copy of Acrobat on their hard drive, so this makes perfect sense. Even if somebody does not own a copy of this program, all they need to do is download Acrobat free of charge from the Adobe website. Whether you have bought PLR rights or written your e-book yourself, publishing it should be a fairly simple process. There is no shortage of programs that you can use in order to produce a PDF file. After that, all you need to do is find a route to market in order to sell your e-book. Many marketers opt to use Clickbank for this.

You may be interested to know that there is a new publishing method available for e-books which you may not have been aware of up until now. Right now the Amazon Kindle e-book reader is a hot, “must have” gadget. It’s a very nice example of a portable consumer electronic device. The fact that practically every new e-book reader which displays any potential at all is immediately dubbed the “Kindle Killer”, demonstrates that the Kindle is not only the market leader, but the benchmark against which all new readers will be measured. The key thing, from the point of view of an Internet marketer, is the fact that the Kindle has a much larger customer base than any other e-book reader.

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. At this time, there are more than 420,000 Kindle books to choose from - and this number is increasing at an average rate of 500 new titles daily.

Which is very interesting, but what are the implications, and opportunities, for you as an Internet marketer? Well, in addition to providing a new method of reading for users, the Kindle also makes new ways of publishing available.

You need an Amazon account - this is free (if you have ever purchased anything from Amazon you already have one) - and then you can quickly and easily publish Kindle book. All you need to do is save your book, using standard word processing software such as Microsoft Word, in HTML format and then upload it to Amazon’s website. In no more than a few minutes, your e-book could be selling in the world’s biggest bookstore.

You can nominate the sales price of your e-book to be whatever you want. However, if you choose a price between $0.99 and $9.99, you will keep 70% of the selling price of any books sold. Amazon make a small deduction in order to cover delivery charges. This is based upon the size of the book in kilobytes and is usually no more than a few cents. This may be somewhat less than you might make by selling and $97 e-book, even so, the potential large sales volume in conjunction with the fact that the process is entirely free, could make it an attractive proposition for you.

The Kindle is often suggested to be the future of books and reading. This applies equally well to both conventional books and e-books. Publishing a Kindle version of your e-book could be a splendid opportunity for you to profit from a new technology during the early stages of its development. So why not consider a Kindle edition for the next e-book that you decide to publish?