6. There's hope in future! Ebooks are just getting started. Ebook writers have ability to adapt their content to their audience and create an interactive element. Hyperlinks help with quick navigation to important resources on web. I believe, in future, eBooks will gravitate to become truly interactive medium they are -- content that allows audience to explore topic as superficially or as deep as they want. Imagine if you publish a fantasy novel and have hyperlinks to maps of world you created just a click away? Or, like thousands of DVD's, what if you create links to a website that has a "behind scenes" look into writing process? Or what about scenes you loved but didn't fit into eBook's plot? Why not show reader what you edited out?

7. Success is possible, with time, MJ Rose's eBook, Lip Service, garnered many great reviews, sales, and future print publishing contracts. In MJ's latest eBook, Buzz Your Book, she mentions that Angela Hoy, makes several thousand dollars with her eBooks on a monthly basis. These success stories took time (months and years) to create -- but now these women have become "eBook legends." It turns out that self-published eBooks can pay off! (You can find out more about MJ Rose at http://www.mjrose.com/ and Angela Hoy at http://www.writersweekly.com)

If You're Considering Jumping On Bandwagon

The internet has changes way self-publishers market. There are websites, email discussion lists, and communities dedicated to help independent writer get into print. Where once self-publishers missed out on support of an editor or publishing house, they now have opportunity to participate in a quickly growing community.

Is self-publishing an eBook right for you? Here are a few questions to help you decide:

1. Do you have an idea -- or manuscript -- for a good book? 2. Do you ENJOY networking with writers and publishers on web? 3. Are you INTERESTED in learning new ways to promote yourself? 4. Do you have time and resources to DIY? (do it yourself?) 5. Are you prepared to learn a lot of information and apply it on a daily basis?

If answers to these questions are "yes" or "maybe", there are also resources online you'll want to check out before you begin your project. Here are a few to get you started:

Self-Publishing Discussion List (sponsored by SPAN) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Self-Publishing/

AnEBookChat -- Discussion List for eBook Writers (Experienced and Newbies) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AnEBookChat/

Series of Articles with Many eBook-related Links "Become an E-Book Author -- .......Selling Your Knowledge" by Edward Toupin http://www.webwritingbuzz.com oupin1.html

eBook Web -- Resources, articles, and tips http://www.ebookweb.org

For instance:

* If you run an ezine where you promote your products or affiliate programs you can easily increase circulation of your ezine by adding free eBooks as a bonus to subscribing to your publication. Allowing your subscribers to download eBooks you have written is a good way to show your subscribers that you are knowledgeable about marketing and can lead to them viewing you as an expert in your field. You can also increase your profits by including links in your eBooks to your affiliate programs or business. If you wanted to you could also include your eBooks in a members only site you create for your subscribers. Your members only site can have your eBooks, resources you think your subscribers will find valuable, and other sites you wish to promote. This also can be a great bonus to subscribing to your ezine and easily increase your subscriber base.

* If you give away free eBooks with your marketing information to your visitors, you can also allow your visitors to rebrand your eBooks with a link to their site, products or services for free. This allows your visitors to promote their site in your eBook for free while promoting your products at same time. This can lead to hundreds or even thousands of people promoting your eBook with your opportunties for free all with very little work on your part.

* If you run an affiliate program, you can increase your business profits by creating eBooks for your affiliates to give away for free that they can rebrand with their affiliate URL. This can increase income of your affiliates and also increase amount of promotion you get from your affiliates. A win-win situation.

* You can allow your visitors to read first few chapters of an eBook you've written before paying for complete version. This allows your future customers to see that you offer useful, helpful information, to make sure what you offer is what they want, and it makes it easier for them to make decision to buy from you.

And you can do much more if you set your mind to it. Not only can you write an eBook that deals with marketing or promotion, but you could write about anything that you are good at, or have knowledge about. What you do with your eBook is as limitless as your imagination. The choices are up to you.