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Ebook Authors! - How To Increase Your Ebook Sales Overnight!

By Ian Middleton

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Where are you selling your ebooks at present? I hope it is not on that well- known auction site, as you cannot really expect to make much money there, as people bundle thousands together for just a few bucks.

Would you be interested in discovering a way to increase your ebook sales overnight?

Then you need to check out all the attention digital readers are getting right now. This is a ready-made market for your ebooks and with Christmas coming in less than two months from now there is no better time to start taking advantage of a marketing platform that is going to explode as it rolls out to more countries.

If you write reports as well, then this is also a great way to increase sales. You can even have people write reports for you for relatively little money.

According to the International Digital Publishing Forum, sales of ebooks have risen steadily over the past six years, from around $6 million in 2002 to around $33 million last year (2007). These figures do not include small author/publishers or educational publishers, so this would make the market potentially even larger. That's a conservative increase of $27M in five years, so can you see the potential increase in ebook sales when you tap into the new digital reader market?

You can benefit from the endorsements that Oprah recently gave about one make of reader. A lot of people sit up and take notice of what she has to say and this can help you to increase your sales of ebooks and reports.

You might have your own book that you could not get a publisher to take on and so you have made it into an ebook and are disappointed in your sales so far. By publishing it onto a digital text platform you only have to do the work once and let household named retailers list it on their sites. You are able to list keywords or tags as they are often referred to with ebook publishing.

Now the reason I mention keywords or tags is because you need to make sure people will find your book or report when they do a search, and the way to do that is to go to a site such as Amazon and type in words you would use to find a similar subject to your ebook.

You will not increase your ebook sales if nobody can find your book, because you are not using tags or keywords that other successful authors use. When you find a similar book to yours, you can usually scroll down the page and see a list of popular tags used by that author. You then simply make sure that you include the same tags in your book and by digging a bit deeper into other similar titles you can incorporate some of their tags too. To increase your ebook sales and profits you need to have your books found easily when someone does a search.

There are some great resources out there to help in your quest to be more profitable in selling your ebooks or reports. Selling your ebooks to the Digital Reader marketplace is something you should certainly investigate if you are looking to make as many sales of your ebook as possible.

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