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Ebooks are beginning to come of age. It is now becoming a more practical option to sell your knowledge or niche book on line than it is to sell it through a conventional publisher. There are on line publishers like Amazon that will upload your ebook, help you market it, deliver it to your customers, track sales, take the money and pay you the balance.

You get to set your own cost for the book and you will receive about 70% of the absolute revenue. Dedicated ebook readers are making the ebook even more accessible. For instance, say that you are travelling and you finish your book, you might find it a problem to buy a different book to read for a time, particularly if you are abroad.

Not so with modern ebook readers. You only go online with their built-in WIFI capability and download a different one. Or you could download a dozen so that you do not run the risk of being without. Ebooks are cheaper than traditional paper books and more readily accessible. Lots of readers will also hold over 3,000 books.

So, this is a manner to go for publishing a book, but what if you cannot write well enough? What if you have immense ideas for books – fact or fiction – but you just cannot write them down? There can be a number of reasons for this. Maybe writing in not your forte; maybe English (the biggest market for books) is not your mother tongue; or maybe you only do not have the time.

So why not outsource them? Many books purportedly written by well-known sports personalities were in fact outsourced or written by ghost writers. That is nothing new and no source of shame. It is just horses for courses.

This actually is a business in a box. Let us look at some scenarios. If you think that the current fad for stories on macabre topics will continue, why not think up a few scenarios and pay for five short stories that you can compile into one ebook? Or look on line, find out what individuals are having problems with and pay for ebooks to solve those issues.

You could have ten books for sale on Amazon within a month offering revenue for years.

So how do you go about it? Well, first of all, someone has to have the concepts and that has to be you or your family or friends. Then you have to outline those ideas for the writer to be able to follow. Then you have to state how long the writer has to complete the project; how many words it should contain and what standard of English you expect.

Then Google ”ghost writers desired’ or something similar. There are many sites acting as go-betweens and lots of solo writers too. Give them the specifications and carefully choose your writer.

Make sure that all intellectual copyrights are signed over to you on payment and then go over to Amazon, open a publishers account and follow the instructions. You could be publishing within 20 minutes and earning within a few days. It is really a business in a box.

Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on a variety of subjects, but is now involved with Kindle screen size. If you would like to know more, please go to our website at Kindle vs Book

Ebooks or electronic books are becoming more and more popular in comparison with normal paper books every month. In 2010, Amazon sold more ebooks than traditional books for the first time ever. It is likely that this trend will continue, because ebooks are far cheaper than printed books. Not just that but it is easier to download a book in moments than go to a bookshop.

Traditionally, ie since the Internet started, people read ebooks on their desktop or laptop computer. In ‘those days’, most ebooks were promotional items, providing only limited information as a lure to go to the writer’s web site in order to increase sales. In other words, most ebooks were merely adverts to hook a possible client.

That situation still goes on, but increasingly, ebooks are stand-alone items of value without any advertising or any links back to a web site, because they are complete things in themselves – like any standard book you would purchase in a shop. But they are cheaper and more readily available.

Another very attractive feature of ebooks for authors is that it is easier to get up and running – selling your books. If you have ever tried to get a book published, you will know that it can be – and normally is – a very long, drawn-out process involving long periods of waiting and nail-biting.

For instance, it is rumoured that it took the writer the book ‘Virgin Soldiers’ 21 years to find a publisher, yet it became a successful film too. The same, to a lesser extent is true of the Harry Potter books.

If books of that calibre had concerns, what opportunity do you think that you have? I have read that approximately one manuscript in ten thousand appears on the book shelves. Would odds like that encourage new writers? No. So how many good authors are falling by the wayside? Quite a few, so it would seem.

Another bonus for online ebook publishing is the fact that writers on small niche topics, have the chance to spread their expertise and make some money as well. The fact is that publishing a book in the conventional fashion is so costly that the topic of the book has to be very popular or the book will be too costly to sell.

This is not an issue for ebooks. If you are interested in, say, German teddy bears from 1950-1955, you can publish your book as an ebook whenever you like for the same cost as a high interest issue like, say, the Death of Princess Diana – almost at zero cost.

This situation will only improve as more and more businesses bring out low-cost ebook readers and more and more companies are prepared to host, market and sell your ebook for a percentage.

For example, Amazon will handle the sales and distribution of your ebook for 30% of the cost of your book, which you can set yourself. This empowers authors who would never have got their books to market in any other way.

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on a variety of subjects, but is now involved with Kindle screen size. If you would like to know more, please go to our web site at Kindle vs Book

Everyone knows about the problem of the production of greenhouse gases and the destruction of the rain forests. We all know of the stress that over-population puts on the environment and we all know that we are attempting to do our bit by recycling. The differences of outlook usually come down to extent. In short, we all know that it is happening, but we do not all agree how serious it has become yet.

Fair enough, in my estimation. I distrust anyone who calls himself an expert. That is a word that should be used to describe you, no one that you use to portray yourself. Like the individuals who call themselves entrepreneurs rather than business people because it sounds grander.

Anyway, I am going off on a tangent. One of the things that readers can do is not purchase books, newspapers and magazines. This would alleviate the strain on trees and permit the recycled material that we currently use for books, newspapers and magazines to become used on essential school books. It may even make them a bit cheaper.

Of course, publishers of paperback books, newspapers and magazines are not going to be glad with that proposal and neither are people who work in the industry or readers who like to hold their purchase in their hands. Nevertheless, it appears inevitable that it will come to pass one day.

Indeed, numerous moves have already been taken in that direction. There are dozens of handheld ebook reading devices on the market, the most well-known of which is almost certainly the Amazon Kindle. The Kindle comes in two sizes: the normal 6″ model for reading ‘regular’ books and the 9.7″ item for reading technical books, newspapers and magazines. Needless to say, the larger model will also display normal books.

The Kindle and lots of the other similar handheld ebook reading devices will permit the owner to link to an online book store, library or repository and download books, newspapers and magazines for a fee. Having said that, there are hundreds of thousands of books that are out of copyright, which can be downloaded free of charge from Amazon, Google and the Glutenberg Project.

Lots of these handheld ebook reading devices will hold 3,500 books! That is a great deal of paper, whichever way you look at it. 3,500 books at your finger tips and in your pocket with millions more where they came from and many more being added to the libraries every day. All downloadable from anywhere where the Internet is accessible anywhere in the world in a minute or two.

This means that avid readers or researchers never need wait for the bookshop to open again or have to go into town to look for a bookshop or library. How many trees and gallons of petrol will that save you in your life?

It is already often predicted that universities will start selling course books to their students on such devices within five years and that high schools and colleges will follow suit within ten years. These handheld ebook reading devices are probably not suitable for infants because they are not robust, but private readers are taking them up rapidly.

Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on a range of subjects, but is now involved with Kindle screen size. If you would like to know more, please go to our web site at Kindle vs Book