Ebooks are books that are only written and published online. They are not published either in hard copy or paper copy. If the reader wants to read the ebook offline, they either have to download and save it on their computer or they can print it out.
Ebook is a growing phenomenon i.e. most small writers are publishing their own ebooks. It is convenient and easy to make an ebook. If you are writer or an aspiring writer, writing your own ebook would make it possible for your work to be known to people. It is not easy to sign a contract with a big publishing company. Big publishing companies want to publish books that will make money for them. The people that gets their book published easier are people that have been featured on the new media. Not every one has the opportunity to be like them. People that haven’t been in the news media finds it difficult to get their works published. Read their biography, you would find that they have to go from one publishing company to another.
All this hassle was changed by the ebook. To make an ebook, you need to have the content and the book cover design. The design is to make the book look attractive and presentable. For the content, you can either write it yourself or hire a freelancer writer to do the writing. Also, for the book cover design, if you are adept in designing, you can design it yourself or hire a freelancer. After you have gotten the content, you add the book cover design. You proof the book to see if their is any error or omission. If there is none, you have created your ebook.
The next step is marketing the ebook; this is how you would make money with the ebook. Since the ebook is on the internet, you would need to do online marketing. Before marketing, you should set the price of the ebook. If you don’t want to spend your time on marketing the ebook. You can get affiliates to do the marketing for you. But you need to pay them some commission. It is up to you decide how much to pay them. It may be a fixed amount or at a certain percentage from the sale of the ebook. If these goes perfectly, then you are on your way to make money online with ebooks.