The Amazon Kindle Reader – A New Publishing Platform For You To Experiment With

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The Amazon Kindle Reader – A New Publishing Platform For You To Experiment With

For many internet marketers, e-book sales are a key element in their online business efforts. The vast majority of marketers working online will have promoted e-books, as authors or affiliates, at some time or another.

Currently, most e-books are distributed in PDF format, which is suitable for the popular Adobe Acrobat reader. Practically everybody has a copy of Acrobat on their hard drive, so this makes perfect sense. Anyone who does not already have a copy of this program can simply visit Adobe’s website where they can download it free of charge. Whether you have authored the e-book yourself or bought PLR rights, publishing should be an uncomplicated process. There are any number of programs which allow you to produce a PDF file. After that all you need to do is promote your e-book and hope that it will sell well. Many marketers opt to use Clickbank for this.

However, there is a fairly new publishing method available which you may not have considered up to now. At the moment, the Amazon Kindle reader is a hot and trendy gadget. It’s a fine example of a portable personal electronics gadget. 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 a marketing point of view, is the fact that more people use the Kindle than any other type of 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 the moment there are over 450,000 titles available – and this number is growing at an average rate of 500 new books every day.

Which is interesting, but what opportunities does it afford you as an Internet marketer? As well as providing a new method of reading books the Kindle also enables new publishing methods.

You need an Amazon account – this is free (if you have ever bought items from Amazon’s web store then you already have one) – and then you can publish Kindle books quickly and easily. 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 a matter of minutes your e-book could be on sale in the world’s biggest book shop.

You can set the sales price of your e-book at whatever level you like. However, if you set your price somewhere between .99 and .99, you will keep 70% of the selling price of any books sold. In order to cover delivery fees, Amazon make a small deduction. Typically this is no more than a few cents and is set by the size, in kilobytes, of the e-book. This might be less than you could make selling a e-book – nevertheless, the potential sales volume coupled with the fact that the process is free, may well make it an attracive option for you.

The Amazon Kindle is often proposed to be the future of books. Obviously this applies to both books and e-books. Publishing a Kindle edition of your e-book could be a very good opportunity for you to profit from the new and innovative technology. Perhaps you might like to think about publishing a Kindle edition of the next e-book that you release?

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