Self-publish at Speed of Thought Ebook

Discover how to self-publish your thoughts and your e-Books with the best selling e-Book author and self-publisher. 
This e-Book will walk you step by step through writing your first e-Book and then present free resources and marketing plans that will allow you to market your e-Books using the same free resources that helped the author publish 3 e-Book bestsellers and two "print on demand" best selling title at Amazon.com.

Step one

Keep a Score Card

The very best way to begin a successful ebook marketing campaign is to keep a scorecard. It is easy to know how many ebooks and how many dollars you ring up from you own website but how does it compare with the ebook industry standards?

If you can somehow compare your ebook sales with ebook and traditional ebook sates with industry leaders, you will then be able to plan your next ebook offerings more wisely.

Let's begin keeping a scorecard with one of the industry standards at this writing, Barnes & Noble.com at:

http://www.bn.com

Since I have ebooks in the "self-publishing" category that I want to track, I am going to conduct a search using the word, "self-publishing" as a keyword.

Notice that I entered in the keyword "self-publishing" in the search box next to the quick search box labeled ebooks.

I now click on the search button to search on all ebooks that contain the keywords "self-publishing.

You will notice that there are 164 titles listed in best-selling order from highest to lowest.

My title, A Cheap and Easy Manual to Self-publishing Ebooks in Rocketedition is the 2nd best-selling title. What is unique about that is it is compared with paperback and hardback ebooks!

You want to be able to have your ebook stand up against all of the paperbound ebooks collecting dust on store shelves.

This is the power of keeping a great scorecard.

You may ask, "well how do you stand up with your ebook selling on Amazon.com, the Mother of all Internet Bookstores?"

Yes, you do want to make Amazon.com the ultimate test of how you are doing.

Currently, the best way to sell your ebooks is by creating CD-ROM titles and issuing unique ISBN numbers for each of them.

I will give you more information on self-publishing CD-ROMS in a later Step 5.

On Amazon.com, notice that I entered in "self-publishing" as the keyword.

Now let's search on "self-publishing" and see what results.


The first screen shot shows the top two matches in best-selling order. The results include all ebooks, tapes and CD-ROMS.


My title, A Cheap and Easy Manual to Self-publishing Ebooks is listed number 12 out of 243 titles in best-selling order. Notice that the price of $22.95 is much higher than the titles located around it.

In the next step we will discuss pricing your ebooks. You will be able to price your ebooks higher than print and other media if you follow the marketing techniques from Ebook 1, A Cheap and Easy Manual to Self-publishing Ebooks.

Higher prices mean higher profits for you!