There’s never been a better time to write a book.

You can write AND SELL your book profitably, because the Amazon Kindle platform makes it possible for you. The gatekeepers have gone.

However, you do need a method.

As I said here, Write AND Sell Your Ebooks With Angela’s No-Fail Ebook Sales Formula:

“Can you profitably write and sell ebooks?

The self-publishing frenzy says that you can. However, you need to know what you’re doing, so that you’re as sure as you can be that your new ebook will SELL before you start writing it.

It took me five years of writing and selling information products before I stumbled over the formula I’ve been using ever since.

Now I’m sharing the formula with you. Once you start the right way, ensuring that you have readers who are ready and eager to BUY before you start writing, it’s easy to make sales.”

All you have to do is start writing. Write — and then sell.

Seth Godin is a marketing genius.

I love these words of wisdom in his blog post, Seth’s Blog: The last hardcover:

“If you’re an author, pick yourself. Don’t wait for a publisher to pick you. And if you work for a big publishing house, think really hard about the economics of starting your own permission-based ebook publisher. Now’s the time.”

Pick Yourself

I hope you’re hard at work writing your book. I also hope that you have books #2, #3 and #4 in the planning stages.

You now have opportunities NO ONE has ever had before, if you want to write a book.

I’m majorly aggravated that I was born too soon. I wish I’d been born around 1990… Ho hum, since I wasn’t, I have to believe in reincarnation, because I LOVE being an author in 2012 with so many opportunities.

So, pick yourself, get published on the Kindle. See where it takes you. Your potential is glorious, but only if you believe in you.

FWIW — I believe in you.

Read this article: Why Online Retailers Will Squeeze Out Publishers In The Book Business | paidContent. It suggests:

“With those 100 million billing and messaging relationships, Apple and Amazon would only need to achieve a reasonable 1 percent conversion rate to help an author sell 1 million books, a level few authors today reach.”

Yep — Apple and Amazon can help you to make sales. And you’ll keep more money too.

Are you writing a book? Books are information products, and I’ve been creating them for a decade.

I’m transitioning my own products into the Kindle/ ereader future. If you’d like to join me, you can.

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There’s a huge market for info products, so writing ebooks is the perfect home business. With the launch of the Amazon Kindle and the Apple iPad this market has exploded in the past year, and promises to be even bigger in 2011. The industry is set to grow even further as more and more people look to their digital devices for information and entertainment.

I’ve been selling information products for 10 years, so here are some tips which will help you to success.

Firstly, research your market before you write your ebook. I see many new writers creating ebooks on topics which interest them, but for which there is a very small market. You’ll be investing time and energy into your creation, so you need to be sure that people will buy it.

Decide whether you want to provide information, or whether the you want to entertain your audience.

If you want to provide information, look for people’s pain points – what do they need information on? Ebooks which sell information on topics like curing acne and losing weight are popular: the health area is a booming marketplace.

On the other hand, if you want to entertain you can do that too.

Novels are selling very well as the books, with one popular novelist earning $100,000 from his ebooks in 2010. He estimates that he’ll double his earnings in 2011. However, do realize that he’s been writing for over a decade, and has built a large audience. If you want to write novels you’ll need to build your audience too.

Secondly, create a schedule for developing new information products. Your products are your inventory, and your business will only be as strong as your inventory.

An easy way to build your inventory and increase your readership is to develop a series on a single topic. If your first information product is on weight loss, consider creating another dieting product, targeting a different segment of the weight loss audience.

If you’re writing novels, consider creating a series character. JK Rowling did this successfully. You can take your series character through several books.

2011 promises to be a huge year for ebooks, so if you want to write and sell them, now is the perfect time to start your home business.

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Three weeks after completing the class one student wrote:

“Thanks Angela, for all your help and advice in class. I’m quitting my job next week. I printed out my letter of resignation tonight after landing a contract writing job that will pay me more for three months part-time work than I earned in from my day job in the whole of 2008! You were right – the great gigs are out there, and now I’ve got the skills to land them. Your class opened my eyes. Bless you…”

“Write More And Make More Money From Your Writing: Develop A Fast, Fun Productive Writing Process” shows you how to thrive as a freelance writer. Would you like to write five times more than you’re writing now, and sell to higher-paying markets? Take the class.

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