How To Make Money Online Selling e-Books, Without Having To Write One?

Selling e-books has become a great way to make money online, thanks to the rising popularity of the internet and digital products. The e-book market is one of the hottest markets online. No matter what niche or what subject you look at, there is somebody writing e-books about the subject, and making money selling them online. You know the potentials, you know its a good way to make money, and you want to make money selling e-books as well, but there is one problem-You cant or don’t want to write e-books! So, what do you do? How do you sell e-books without having to write one?

Selling e-books as an Affiliate Marketer
Well, good news! You can still make money selling e-books, even if you can’t write one. You can take advantage of the high demand for e-books, and create a great income stream for yourself, using affiliate marketing. What is affiliate marketing? Affiliate Marketing is basically an agreement between a merchant (the person who wrote and owns the e-book) and you (an affiliate). You agree to use your web sites, blogs or whichever way you can to promote the merchant’s e-books, and to link to the merchant’s web site. In return, every time someone that you directed to the merchant’s web site, purchases the e-book, you get a commission for that. It’s basically you generating leads for the merchant, in exchange for a commission. That’s what affiliate marketing is all about.

How do you find e-books to sell?
First start with someone you may know is selling e-books, and has an affiliate program. You can simply go to his or her website and register for their affiliate program. Then you will be given your own unique links, which you can use to send people to the merchant’s website. What if you don’t know anyone? You can simply use your favorite search engine and search for the kind of e-books you want to promote. If you want to sell e-books related to cars, simply search for “cars e-books affiliate program”. Once you find the right e-book, start promoting them on your website, blog or any other way you can. You can also use established affiliate marketing networks such as ClickBank (free to join) to find not only e-books, but many other digital products to sell as an affiliate marketer.

How do you promote and sell e-books?
The first thing you need to do is, creating a good web marketing copy for the e-books on your web site. If you want to see good result, you need to do more than just mentioning and linking to the merchants web site. Of course when people come to your site, they are looking for quality and useful information.

By providing useful and informative information to your visitors, you can increase the chances of your visitors buying the e-book, thus earning you more commission. After setting up your website with a good copy, you need to drive traffic to it. The more people visit your site, the more chance you have of selling more e-books, thus making more money. Of course not any traffic will do. You need quality targeted traffic. Basically you need people who are actively looking for the information that the e-book your selling, is offering.

Driving traffic to your website
There are many ways to drive targeted traffic to your site. The best way of course is optimizing your website for search engines. You can also use forums, blogs, social networking and many other ways to drive targeted traffic to your site. Although traffic is an important factor in your success in selling e-books as an affiliate marketer, you also need quality content. As mentioned above, people come to your website or blog to get information that they can use. In order to keep them coming back, you have to constantly add new useful information to your site.

There you go, a simple way to make money selling e-books without having to actually writing the e-books yourself. Use these tips to take advantage of the hot e-book market, to make money selling e-books written by others. That is an excellent way to make money online.

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11 Responses to “How To Make Money Online Selling e-Books, Without Having To Write One?”

  1. Jacinta Dean says:

    Hi Satrap,

    Just thought I would pop past and say happy 2010.

    great article about selling ebooks. I have used a couple of those methods although I am still new to the internet and affiliate marketing field.

    Personally I have had some success with my own niche ebook on spray tanning. It is very micro niche and has nothing to do with online business, however it does bring in some pocket money. Only thing now for me is to make a few more.

    Hope all is going well.

    Jacinta :D
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  2. satrap says:

    Hi Jacinta, good to hear from you. I am glad the article was helpful. Yeah e-books are getting hotter by the day, and the cool thing is that you can turn any subject into an e-book. Like you did with spray tanning. I have seen e-books on just about anything.
    Any way happy 2010 to you too. Thanks for stopping by.

  3. Made a few hundreds selling e-Books. Well, one e-book to be accurate. I’m trying to sell e-Books from Amazon. Hope I get good results too.
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  4. Rostislav. says:

    Thank you for your article in time for the items, she helped me. Because I think selling books on the affiliate program. I subscribed to your site.
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  5. satrap says:

    Kabalyero Kidd I am happy your doing good with the e-book thing. It really is a great way to make money, and I am sure you will do even better on amazon. Keep us posted.

  6. satrap says:

    No problem Rostislav. I am glad you liked it.

  7. Adrianne says:

    I was recently thinking about this idea a few days ago and implementing heavy SEO techniques as well to rank my site to the top of the search engines. You know, if we found a small niche of e-books this would work very well.
    I really like this idea. Thanks for the advice on where to find prewritten E-books!
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  8. satrap says:

    No problem Adrianne. just keep in mind when doing SEO, don’t over do it and don’t do it too fast and aggressively. You don’t want to get sand boxed by Google. Good luck.

  9. Thanks for the info. I am new at affiliate marketing, and trying to learn more each day. E-books have become a personal interest of mine as well, I think it is a good market!
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  10. satrap says:

    Yes, e-books are becoming more popular and the e-book market is really hot right now. that’s why I think its important to get in the game before its too late. Thanks for stopping by.

  11. مضحكة says:

    Selling ebooks can be a good income stream and the commission can be quite high with Clickbank.However, I recommend making your own ebook and selling it from a blog instead.You get to keep 100% of the income and you can earn from adsense at the same time.

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