How Many eBooks Can You Realistically Sell in a Month?
Unedited Guest Article by Ethan Evans
Trying to figure out how many eBooks you can sell in a given month isn’t always easy. There are a lot of variables to consider, and not every situation is the same. So let’s start by trying to come up with a bare minimum number — that is, the least amount of eBooks that you could realistically sell.
Without knowing anything about you, the topic of your eBook, or your marketing budget, this is admittedly a very rough estimate. You can sell at least 10 eBooks a month. Said another way, you can make at least 1 eBook sale every 3 days. If that sounds like an impossibly high number, keep in mind that I personally sell a minimum of 20 eBooks every single day from various niche markets, or around 600 a month. So from my perspective, making 1 measly sale every 3 days is laughably easy once you know what you’re doing.
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What you might find really surprising is that I’ve seen more than one example of a person getting into the eBook publishing business and making in excess of 30 sales in their first month. If they’re selling an eBook that costs $17, and their profit is $15, that’s $450 in extra money. Sure, that might not seem like a lot of money, but for a lot of people it’s a fantastic start. Best of all, it’s recurring. That means that if you were able to sell 30 eBooks in your first month, odds are that if you keep working at it you’ll make a minimum of 30 sales in your next month.
Once you get the hang of things, you can easily automate most of the process to the point where things will largely run themselves. That will allow you to create more eBooks, and make even more money. This is an incredible business to be in, and I really think you can make a minimum of 10 sales in your first month.
Ethan Evans publishes the eBook Secrets site where you can get free information on how to make money on the Internet with your own home-based ebook publishing venture without having to spend a lot of money on startup expenses.
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That article said absolutely nothing.
Shouldn’t he have told people how to do?
Hello Nancy
Obviously be’s selling something, which explains the “teaser” content. I usually ignore and don’t run these ad-pitch-no-meat articles, but there was something in it that caught my attention, and I thought it would for Wordpreneur readers too.
It’s the simple revelation, “I personally sell a minimum of 20 eBooks every single day from various niche markets, or around 600 a month.”
Assuming he isn’t lying, and assuming further that he clears, hmm, $10 per ebook sale, that’s $6K incoming monthly. Even if the numbers are fudged or off, let’s say by 50%, that’s still a nothing to sneeze at $3K monthly.
And he lets us know how he does it in that same sentence: niches. Implying none of his titles are bestsellers. How many niches is he working, I do not know.
When you further consider that “ebooks” can be short multi-page reports (it’s all in the marketing and packaging, assuming you are indeed delivering the info you promise), I would think that that simple factoid should be thought provoking enough for us.
Thoughts?
ees
Hi,
Thought provoking maybe. But, it’s only really helpful if he tells how he sells his e-books to his niches.
In looking back at his title, I guess he didn’t promise that. But, I still don’t feel the article has any substance.
You usually do a wonderful job putting good, helpful information out there. Is it just me, but I’m SO tired of people just slapping words up all over the place, just to get their name or agenda out there. I don’t have time to read everything and I wish there was a way to erase all the worthless junk out there so I didn’t have to skim through it!
Thanks for letting me vent!
Hello Nancy, feel better now?
BTW, your “A Bride’s Cookbook”… really neat concept. How are sales?
Your ebook version doesn’t seem to have an aff program (don’t know if you’ve got one set up with your print CafePress version). that’s something worth seriously considering. Software app I use for this sort of thing is called RAP (Rapid Action Profits). Check it out. — EES