<p>Discover how to self-publish your thoughts and your e-Books with the best selling e-Book author and self-publisher.  <br />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.</p> <p><strong>Step one</strong> <br /><br />Keep a Score Card <br /><br />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? <br /><br />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. <br /><br />Let's begin keeping a scorecard with one of the industry standards at this writing, Barnes & Noble.com at: <br /><br />http://www.bn.com <br /><br />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. <br /><br />Notice that I entered in the keyword "self-publishing" in the search box next to the quick search box labeled ebooks. <br /><br />I now click on the search button to search on all ebooks that contain the keywords