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Writing the book is the easy part. Anyone can be a good writer. But actually selling it is the hard part. I was thinking about writing an ebook, but in order to be successful, you need a good amount of traffic. Either your blog can be really big and you'll sell a lot of copies to your loyal blog readers, or you can try affiliate market (PPC, CPA, etc). But I find that affiliate marketing doesn't work very well for selling ebooks unless your books costs a lot (that way you'll easily be able to recoup the ad costs).

I have written a few. Each one of my niche sites has a relevant ebook.  while traffic helps, an ebook can go viral depending on content type and quality.  in addition there are existing platforms you can use to leverage sales, such as kindle, google books and barnes and noble nook.  i get more sales from those external avenues than i do on my sites.  these platforms have readership communities always looking for the next release.  i have written about this topic sparingly on my blog – will focus more on it as digital products are the epitome of passive income in my opinion

Sunil from The Extra Money Blog said:

I have written a few. Each one of my niche sites has a relevant ebook.  while traffic helps, an ebook can go viral depending on content type and quality.  in addition there are existing platforms you can use to leverage sales, such as kindle, google books and barnes and noble nook.  i get more sales from those external avenues than i do on my sites.  these platforms have readership communities always looking for the next release.  i have written about this topic sparingly on my blog – will focus more on it as digital products are the epitome of passive income in my opinion

How long are your e-books and how many chapters?  I've tossed around the idea but you want to write a good sized ebook so that you're not writing a pamphlet but you're not going into Stephen King territory either (for the record I love Stephen King, but that guy can fill pages like no other!)

I've written a couple of ebooks, but only one that I charge for.. The rest have been freebie giveaways for my email list.

As others mention writing them and putting them together isn't easy by any means, the hard part is actually getting it out there and selling it. For that you need traffic, a good marketing plan and advice from others who have done it like financialblogger and mike at obliviousinvestor.com (who sells on amazon)..

It is a lot of work, but can be rewarding if you do it right.

This has been on my to-do list for a long time. I wouldn't say that writing the book is the easy part. Most people think they could write a book but they don't actually do it.  My plan is to sell ebooks on Kindle.  The details of selling ebooks on Amazon is a lot different than selling an ebook on your blog. 

Mike Piper of ObliviousInvestor.com has been successful selling paper books and ebooks on Amazon.  He will be at the Financial Blogger Conference answering questions about publishing. 

I wrote 20 Minute Guide to Investing. It is available for free from my site. I'm building a good email list from the downloads.  I am in the growth stage of my site and long term expect to write for sale. My expectation is that it is a long process to profit with an ebook. Yet, my goal is to publish several books for sale.  Might want to eask Mark from Buy Like Buffett, he's got quite a nice portfolio.