The answer is simple -almost any type.
With over 300,000,000 people online there's a massive potential market for all
but the most specialised type of E-Books. The best advice I can give you about
the subject of your ebook is to write about what you know or about what interests
you, something that you would like to discover more about yourself. Personal
passion about a subject shines through in your writing and makes for a more
enjoyable read, entertain and educate your reader, deliver what they want and
you will have made a customer for life.
Handy Hint: Do not make the common mistake of believing that your ebook
should be about making money or internet marketing - In fact, it's much easier to
generate a higher income by targeting your ebook at a more generalised
audience or a non marketing niche, as opposed to the small proportion who are
Internet entrepreneurs.
There are thousands of people interested in thousands of topics the secret is:
Discover a need, target the market and feed it.
A word of warning: Try to avoid fashionable subjects or subjects related to
current news stories. You may find that what was searched for 10,000 times last
month only manages a couple of hundred a month later and by the time your
ebook and sales site are ready to go live you may find you have few or no
customers.
Here are some excellent resources to enable you to find out what topics are hot
now:
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html
Another method of establishing 'What Sells' is to visit the big guys and find out
what they're selling. Check out the bestseller charts at
Amazon.co.uk
Amazon.com
Bol.com
Barnes and Noble
Once you have chosen a subject(s) you can proceed to the next stage of your
research. To do this you will need to check out the overall levels of interest in
your selected subject.
If your chosen subject hasn't generated many searches you may not be able to
sell many copies of your ebooks. In my experience sticking with subjects that
have generated at least a five to ten thousand searches is a safer bet, this way if
you work on a small percentage of the total searches it will give you an idea of
how many books you could potentially sell.
You should also at this stage search for other web sites that relate to your
chosen subject. I personally find that the easiest search engine to use is
Google.com
It's really important to find out before you start creating your book that the
information you plan to sell isn't available for free somewhere else and this is
also a good time to check for potential competitors, reciprocal link sites or
possible affiliates programs you can join.
Make life easier by creating a spreadsheet and note the URLs of the sites and
forums you visit, add helpful notes and comments about any interesting stuff you
pick up along the way - This part of your research can be a little time consuming
but it will be helpful as your business develops so take some time and immerse
yourself in your chosen subject, believe me it will pay dividends later.
Every author when writing a book needs to conduct research and it's no different
when you're writing an ebook. You have in front of you the best tool available to
carry out your research - it's called the Internet and the best thing about it is that
it's absolutely free.
Here are just a few of the thousands of research resources you can find on the
web:
http://www.bartleby.com
http://www.brint.com
http://www.encyclopedia.com
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About the Author
Adam Cox - www.OnlinePassiveIncome.co.uk
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