Publishing a book or even an ebook is a great way to earn passive money. You will be earning from your book as long as your book is selling. However, there is also another major benefit of becoming a book writer.
When you have authored a book, it will establish your authority. Book will give you an identity. This will help you build your business. However, you need to remember just one thing, the book should be exactly on the same niche as your business.
Let’s say you are selling digital courses, if you write a book about the subject of your digital courses, you will gain more prominence.
If you have created SaaS business and if you write about this business niche that might help people, your business will grow rapidly with book sales.
If you are a freelance writer, you can write a book on Freelancing, and this will help you grow.
When you write a book, in the eyes of your customers, you are an expert on the subject.
How to Publish Your Own eBook in 7 Days
You don’t have to spend months, or years, writing a book, look for book agents or publishers to get your book to get published. You can actually become a published author in a week or less. So, how do you do it?
Collect all articles you have published online.
Arrange the articles according to the topics.
Update your articles with relevant information.
If you have funds you can hire a book editor, otherwise use grammar checker tools and correct the mistakes.
Once your manuscript is ready, you can publish on free ebook publishing platforms. If you choose to publish on KDP, here is an easy guide.
Create an account and clock on “create” option and go through step by step process (add a title, add subtitle if any, add keywords, book description etc.) KDP offers cover creation tool that will help you choose a cover design. You can work on existing cover template.
Once you hit publish, your ebook will be available on Amazon store in less than 24 hours.
Four Sites to Publish Your eBook
If you want to Get Paid by Writing, publishing ebooks is the most lucrative method. Here are three platforms where you can publish ebooks for free and make money
KDP: Kindle Direct Publishing is free ebook and book publishing service. The books and ebooks published on this platform are available for purchse through Amazon store world wide. KDP offers 70 pe4rcent royalty on ebooks.
Smashwords: Smashwords is one of the best free ebook publishing platforms for indie writers. The ebooks published on this platform are available for sell through its own website.
Barnes and Noble Press: This is a self-publishing platforms for indie authors. You can publish ebooks for free and distribute your ebooks through Barnes and Noble store. You earn 70 percent royalty on ebooks.
Lulu: This is a self publishing platform with inbuilt marketplace to sell your ebooks. The best thing about this platform is you can distribute the books published on this platform through woocommerce or shopify store.
Gumroad: Gumroad is a digital marketplace to buy and sell ebooks, blog posts, articles, mini-tutorials, guides, workbooks, etc. While you can sell ebooks on Gumroad, this platform is not actually for ebooks.
If you want to sell ebooks you need to try other platforms that are specifically designed for publishing and selling ebooks. KDP is probably the best platform to publish and sell ebooks. However, I am not going to talk about KDP because a lot of people have already shared too many posts on KDP. A few other ebook publishing and selling platforms you can try are Smashwords, Nook Press by Barnes and Noble, Lulu, iBooks, Kobo Writing Life, etc. Before you choose a platform to self publish your ebook you need to do some research on their market size. For instance, Smashword is definitely a good platform but it is very small compared to KDP and Nook, even LULU.
