1. Passive income from an eBook store. An eBook sales system, such as the Celtnet eBook Site Package provides you with everything you need to run an eBook sales system on your website. It takes literally half an hour to get the system up and running and since it comes pre-loaded with eBooks you could be earning an income within an hour. Of course, like all your web ventures you need to build links and get traffic. But once you have people coming into your store everything works automatically. It's a true set and forget income generation system.

2. Use eBooks to Grow your List All internet marketers need a list of prospects and one of the best ways of doing this is to offer something to your prospects. This is where a list of eBooks can be great for you. Basically you offer four or five eBooks to your prospects as a 'bribe' to get them to join your list. That's great, I hear you say, but where do I get cheap eBooks from? On eBay eBooks and software products are expensive, but eBook sites such as the Celtnet eBook Store sell masses of eBooks at as little as $1 and most of these eBooks come with resell rights so you can legally sell them on or give them away. This is an extremely cost-effective way of growing your list.

3. Sell eBooks on eBay. If you can source eBooks for $1 then if you're clever you can use these eBooks to start your own eBay store and you can sell each individual eBook, or your own collection of these eBooks for $5 or more. So you can quickly start making serious money with this option.

4. Create and Sell your Own eBook. This is the obvious way of using eBooks and many internet marketers use this to great effect. Basically your write your own eBook and then you put up a sales and squeeze page, bring in some traffic and start selling the eBook. You could do this via ClickBank (which potentially gets you lots of affiliates) or you could do this via your own eBook store.

5. Use eBooks to add 'extras' to your own eBook Sales This is another technique to make the sales of your own eBook seem more attractive. You create a package of five or six eBooks and software that you can offer to anyone who purchases your own eBook. Say you sell your eBook for $26 and you offer five other products (which probably cost you at most $15 so you've made a profit after your first sale and you've made your whole eBook package a lot more attractive.

6. Give away a Free ebook for Affiliate Sales This is an excellent way of gaining more affiliate sales. Write a simple eBook on a topic that you know well. Fill it with useful information and point your users to products and services that they will find useful... all of which have your affiliate ID embedded in them. Allow anyone else to give the eBook away as well and you will soon see an avalanche of viral traffic coming into the affiliate programs you're promoting.

As you can see, there are a whole range of ways you can make an additional income from eBooks. It's just a case of writing your own eBooks and getting enough eBooks in your own niches so that you can sell them or give them away.

However, I would urge anyone with a website to grab an eBook sales system as this allows you very cheaply to diversify your website and to add an additional income stream very easily. Also, an eBook sales system is just a sales system that happens to work with eBooks. You could actually use the same software to sell just about anything!

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