How To Make Money Selling Your Ebooks | Steps To Earn By Selling Ebooks

Do you want to make money by publishing an ebook? If yes, you have a good choice as it will make you good money and then you can also call yourself an author (WOW, DREAM!!).

Ebook does not only have a perk of making money and being an author. There are also extra benefits of being an author other than cash.

You can self publish your ebook on your own also, it is not necessary to sell on publishing platforms only and sometimes be rejected to be accepted. Writing an ebook also gives your CV an edge in many areas like marketing, publishing, sales, management, etc.

And let's say, even if you don't become a millionaire by your ebook, you would be ended by making passive pocket money for years. Isn't it a nice option to sell an ebook?

And also writing an ebook is not hard work that only super knowledgable and talented people can only do this. You just need a good idea, to work hard, a lot of patience and motivation.

How much money can you make by selling an ebook?

The success of your ebook depends on many factors like what is your niche, what type of content you are providing, your marketing strategies, ebook publishing platform, and many more.

So, the income from selling an ebook is not certain. You can also make good money and can fail and earn only a little.

The more you promote, the more will be profit. But the best thing I like about selling an ebook is that it generates passive income. You only have to write an ebook once and then it all depends on you how you can promote/market your ebook.

You should also provide quality content to be successful in the long run. At last, reviews and feedbacks of your ebook would make it sell it more, and then only you will make a good passive income.

So, let's look out at the steps on how you can make money from your ebook.

Steps to make money from your ebook

Step #1 Deciding a popular niche for your ebook

I would recommend you choose the topic in which you are really interested in talking about, instead of writing about something which you think will make you more money.

Think in the way that if you see the book of your idea/topic in any store, would you buy it? If you buy it, then other people too, you are already a winner.

Yes, you should write on the topic in which you are genuinely interested, but it is intelligence to see the demand for your niche in the market.

Think of the situation that there is no traffic in the niche and if it is there, no one wants to buy any ebook. Then you all hard work and time would be useless in making an ebook (that you don't want to be).

So, at last, it doesn't matter in which niche there is more money, your ebook topic should be of your interest, of which you are passionate about.

Step #2 Write your high-quality ebook

Making a high standard ebook takes time but this worth it, because in the end only your ebook content quality matters.

Good quality content will produce good feedbacks and reviews which ultimately helps in increasing sales of your ebook.

To write high-quality content, you need to give many months or (even years). You can follow the following steps to produce a high standard content.

The process to produce high-quality content:

#1. Prepare a preliminary version f your ebook

Just write your first draft of your ebook, put words on the page. This may take four months to a year, depending on your daily lifestyle (how busy are you).

#2. Get reviews & feedbacks

Give your draft to your family members, friends and relatives to read it. Get reviews of your content, did they liked it or not? Find out if they would pay you for this content.

You can also get feedback from someone who is pro in that field (if you know anyone). It would help you so much before actually publishing your ebook online.

#3. Edit according to the feedbacks

Now what to do with these reviews/feedbacks? Change your content accordingly to them if you find out the valid reasons in reviews. Use these reviews to make your ebook a masterpiece.

#4. Proofreading

Now its time to removing errors from your ebook. If you can proofread your ebook, do it on your own otherwise hire a person who can proofread. You can hire from freelancing sites like Fiverr, Upwork.

Congratulations! You have completed the most time taking and hard work that is making your ebook content ready.

Once your content is ready, its time to publish it. But where to publish? Let's find out.

Step #3 Choosing the best publishing platform for you

Deciding a publishing platform is important. Where would you sell your ebook? There are many ebook publishing platforms out there.

Some of them are Smashwords, Amazon kindle direct publishing, Apple iBook author and many more.

Now how do you choose among them? Here is the answer.

Compare them on some basics like what is their hosting cost? (Most of them is zero), Do you need your an ISBN number?, How to submit your ebook?, Where is the maximum sale is happening? (Amazon is the largest base of the consumer), Which platform is taking how much commission? (The main thing!!).

Read all rules and regulations of each platform before deciding the publishing platform. and choose one that suits you best.

There is an alternative to the publishing platform. Selling your blog on your own website or blog. The best part is you will get 100% revenue, there would be no middleman who will take a commission of your sales.

Step #4 Make a market strategy for your ebook

To make money from your ebook, marketing is necessary. It is as important as writing your ebook because the more you promote, the more you will be making money.

And it also doesn't need to spend money on marketing by paid advertising. You can use social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc to promote your ebook.

Social media is a huge and best platform to promote your ebook for free. set up your professional account on these platforms and promote your ebook.

You can get your ebook in the competition (don't take part which has a massive fee, there are many free completion going on) in which you can win prizes too and it also will build trust in your ebook.

You can search for book clubs online and can offer to do a reading for a discounted price, and also you can offer an interview or author QnA.

Step #5 Now make another one  

So, all you have done for selling an ebook. But why do you stop at only one ebook, start writing another one? You would have made an audience by your first ebook. So, you could consider an ebook series built around the same texts or characters or themes.

Conclusion

It is not guaranteed that you will make a lot of money by selling ebooks, but yes if your content is good and you do marketing with the right strategy, then it must be making passive good money.

And since writing ebook will create another source of passive income. So, you must try it out. I have given a full pathway to make money from ebooks and divided them into detailed steps. Do follow them.

The first step toward success is the hardest to take and then all the steps after first are easy. So, you just have to think of start. START NOW!! 

If you have any doubts regarding selling or writing ebooks, just ask me in comments, or if there is something you think I should add on, please tell me.

On what topic you are going to write the ebook?