Do you want to make money from e-books and the Amazon Kindle? If so, you have many options. You can join Amazon’s affiliate program, Associates, and help to generate sales. When you do, you get paid.
This is an easy way to make money with little to no work. However, if you want to invest time into your ability to make money, you can and should write e-books for the Amazon Kindle. With a free Amazon account, you can sell these e-books on their website and make some money.
Here are a few guidelines to help you get started with writing your Amazon Kindle ebook.
What is nice about writing Amazon Kindle books is that anyone can do it. Those with experience writing print books, e-books, or web content articles are at an advantage. These individuals are familiar with the dos and don’ts of writing for pay. However, if you have never published anything in print, even on the web, you can still make money. Before you start, you should continue reading on for a few helpful e-book writing tips.
First of all, you need to understand what an e-book is. If you are unfamiliar with e-books and web content writing, you may not have the slightest clue as to what they are. Electronic books, otherwise known as e-books, are those that are published online, instead of print. Internet users can use their computer or the Amazon Kindle to download and read them.
The Amazon Kindle is great for accessing ebooks because it is a small, wireless device which can download ebooks in minutes without the needs for cables or a computer. It has a high-resolution display that looks very much like paper and can hold hundreds of ebooks in its memory at any one time.
You may not realise that many on the New York Time’s Best Seller List are available in e-book format for the Amazon Kindle and other similar devices. And the good thing is you don’t need to be an established author to write an e-book. Don't assume all e-books are only for novels because it can be on any topic. Popular books include how-to guides, memoirs, horror, romance, and more. Your options are virtually unlimited.
Before you start writing, it's always a good idea to first create an outline of your ebook. Writing an ebook can be overwhelming for new writers. As previously stated, many automatically think of those on the bestseller list. Don’t let this intimidate you. You don’t have to have a best selling book to make money.
It also doesn’t have to be 200 pages long. Some popular e-books are less than 50 pages long. As long as you get your point or story across, it doesn’t matter how long or short an electronic book is.
DON’T limit yourself. You aren’t guaranteed you will sell any of your Amazon Kindle books, but there is a good potential to make money. For that reason, don’t limit yourself. Do you want to create an e-book on a popular subject, such as working from home or saving money?
Maybe you also want to turn on your creativity and write a romance novel? Then why not do both? In fact, the more books you write, the easier it will be to make money.
It's a good idea to write your e-book in Microsoft Word or possibly Open Office, which is free and does most of what Microsoft Office does. Microsoft Word comes standard on most computers and is available for sale separately. This program is good because it has a spell and grammar checker.
If you are an inexperienced writer, you will probably make mistakes in your grammar or spelling. However, Microsoft Word will catch most mistakes for you. By typing your e-book in Microsoft Word, you not only get editing help, but your document is automatically ready for upload. Word documents are acceptable for conversion into a Kindle book and Amazon automatically converts them into the correct digital text format for you.
NEVER add “fluff” to increase your word count or page numbers. Ebooks come in a number of different formats and sizes. Don't fall into the trap of thinking that you need to have an e-book that is 300 pages long. If you are writing a how-to book on how to save money at the grocery store, just start writing.
If you get your point across in only 75 pages, that's all you need. Slightly lower the selling price of your book to compensate for the small amount of content. Honestly, readers don’t want to waste their time with fluff or fillers.
Make sure that you have proofread your e-book before uploading and converting to digital text. As you may already know, Microsoft Word catches most grammar and spelling errors for you. But, it isn’t 100% full proof, so make sure you have proofread your document at least twice before converting it to a Kindle ebook.
Finally, don't forget to add a table of contents. Whether you write a fiction or non-fiction book, make sure you have added a table of contents. Put the name of each chapter or section and the page it starts on. Just in case you didn't know, the table of contents comes after the cover.
I hope these tips have helped you to put you on the right road to writing your Amazon Kindle ebook and that it will be a great success.
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After attending the Hawaii Writers conference, I was encourage to write my book about the “flip side of running a B&B” – the Guests from Hell and other stories. One of the presenters told me I should write a Kindle book, a literary agent asked me to send her something when I had “critical mass” – can I do both or is it better to select one? Mahalo, Penny
It wouldn’t take much extra work to do both versions. The Kindle version would probably be easier to publish and if it was successful could be used to promote it to book publishers.
Great Article.
Were you trying to provide a real life example of your proofreading tip when you used “100% full proof” instead of “100% fool proof”?
If so, you made your point. If not, well you made it anyway.
Thank you for the information.
Ron
Hello,
I have an idea for Kindle. My idea is for students in schools to have kindles for their books such as their science books, social studies books, Math books, English books, and many other books teachers give to the students. I think this is a good idea because it is way more convient then carryying 10 pound books around all day instead u can have a light electronic device that has all of the books in it. Please let me know what you think of my idea. Thank you.’
-Michelle
I think this is a good idea that will happen one day but the only problem is the cost of a Kindle for each student. Who will pay for them – the school or the pupil?