Writing a book is no longer as long-winded, boring, and difficult as it was in the past. Today, you do not have to deal with a multitude of publishing agents with stringent barriers to entry and almost no advances to offer you. If you have a flair for writing and would love to publish your own ebooks online, you can easily do so through Amazon.
While writing a book might not be everyone’s cup of tea, there are guides and lots of advice online that can help you get started. In fact, you don’t even have to write the book yourself. You can simply hire a ghostwriter to do it for you! It is actually not the writing itself that is the problem (although you have to provide people with something that they would enjoy reading and gain from in general) but in the promotion of the book. It is the marketing aspect of it that often gets most self-publishers out of the money.
Secret tip: If you can thoroughly promote your book before launching it so that it makes a few hundred sales within the first week of its launch, Amazon will take over and start pushing it to its customers. That will exponentially increase the amount of interest, traffic, and sales you get.
Here are some things that you can do to ensure that you make the most out of your self-published book/s:
· Have it reviewed by someone who has an audience of book lovers (kind of like what Oprah’s Book Club does)
· Stick to Amazon Standards when it comes to formatting the book
· Create a website dedicated to promoting the book and your writing prowess
· Price it accordingly ($0.99 – $5 is a good range considering all you will be selling will be PDF copies as opposed to hardcover copies that require shipping and storage)
Make the book as attractive and interesting enough to your target niche as you can and promote it wildly online. Once you host it on a popular platform like Amazon, you will have a potential source of income for as long as your book is online. By self-publishing several books, you could easily make a good amount of passive income every month.
