E-book Publisher : The Modern Bibliophiles

In today's era, high-tech gadgets are on the rise. From wide-display smartphones like Samsung S Series, iPhones, LG Optimus Series going to those powerful tablets and e-book readers like Kindle and Nook. It would be the best way to get a chance to start a E-book Publishing business that suits your interest. Statistically, people reading e-books dramatically increasing in numbers. It would be a great break isn't it? Have the guts and take your chance.



NBCNEWS

"One-fifth of Americans reads e-book in past year"

"This will be around 62,318,383 people and do include the number of readers on the rest of the world. This number is a great figure to start an e-book business as the number of bibliophiles who switch from the hard-copied books into reading e-books is increasing. Even though we can't disregard the number of competitors but it is on how you can have a great copy for your e-book and the way to advertise it."

Credits to NBCNEWS
http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/one-fifth-americans-read-e-book-past-year-655772

"50.4% of US Comsumers Use Smartphones"

Credits to NIELSEN
http://nielsen.com/global/en.html
Credits to TechCrunch
http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/07/nielsen-smartphones-used-by-50-4-of-u-s-consumers-android-48-5-of-them/

E-BOOK PUBLISHER

CAPITAL: $200 - 1,500
** Depending if you have a starting computer to work on including the necessary softwares. **

If you don't have, refer for this post for a sample of a great machine for business.
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Credit to Dell Inc.
http://www.dell.com/


POTENTIAL EARNINGS: $25,000+

Potential Earnings = Price of Your Book * No. of Copies Sold

or

Potential Earnings = Price per Service
Service: In this case if someone wants to have an e-book and you'll be the one creating the e-book for them with in terms of : Typing, Layout, Graphics and Conceptualizing for some part or the whole book.

or

Potential Earnings = Price per Page

HOW THEY WILL KNOW YOU?

• Website
• If you are a programmer, or graphic artist with a website or portfolio of your work this will be a great place to start.
• E-Bookstores
• Place you books on an E-bookstore however a primary advertisement before this should work more for you.
• With regards to Web Programmer you can create an E-commerce website for you maybe from hardcore coding from scratch or using available CMS like Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress

WHAT YOU NEED?

• Computer
• Not necessarily on top of the high specification computers, just computers which can handle the application very well.
• Softwares
• Make sure you have the necessary softwares to create graphic designs and layout for your book like Adobe Photoshop and the like. Keep in mind also the application that you will use in compiling the pages of your book like Adobe Acrobat and the like.

SKILL REQUIREMENTS

• Computer Skills
• Just a little designing skills will do with regards to the graphic generating tool that you are using or you can hire a person who could do that for you. The rest of compiling your works will be as easy as you ever imagine.
• Communication
• Be fluent and creative in words with regards to the content of your books. It is the spice of the book which you are selling.

YOUR JOB
Having a wide variety of knowledge in your designated field you can create compilation of information which you can share to others and this will be your job as an e-book publisher. You can create story, tutorials, tips or even design inspiration type of books which you can share. In other cases if you don't have any certain idea of what book can be done but you know how e-books are made, you can render your service for creating e-books for others.

YOUR SUCCESS
The success of publishing e-books depends on how good you market your book and all the creative content that it has. The more interesting or helpful the book, the more the readers of your book recommend it to others.

** values for capital and the earning may vary on your location and currency. **