However, I’ve come across quite a few new online entrepreneurs thinking they’re going to strike it rich selling a $20 or $30 e-book. They’ve failed to do some simple math.

Suppose you sell an e-book for $30. Deduct $5 off your $30 sell price to account for advertising and other costs. That leaves you with $25. You’d have to sell 1,000 copies a year to make $25,000. That’s a lot of copies! Even if you did sell that many, 25 grand isn’t exactly going to put you on Easy Street.

Another factor is competition. Many e-books with resell rights have also be purchased by hundreds, possibly thousands, of competitors.

And if you’re selling an e-book as an affiliate, you’re usually limited to 50% or less of sell price.

The key to making large amounts of money selling information products is that you need resell rights for at least one higher priced item.

You are considering becoming involved for first time in internet marketing. That means you are a "newbie." You don't know html from email. Naturally you are intrigued by promises of instant wealth. So you surf around with your PayPal account and soon your hard drive is overflowing with useless ebooks. Your credit card is also overflowing with debt. This completes your first lesson in Ecommerce. "The wealth of a few is built upon failures of many."