Ebooks scare away most writers, and not without reason. They’re a big commitment, since most ebooks are at least 20 pages long, and many are much, much longer. Don’t overlook these writing jobs, though. If you know enough about the topic (or it is common enough to be easily researched), you can easily write an ebook for a client or to sell yourself.

Think about it this way. Say someone wans to order 20 500-word articles about a specific topic and is willing to pay you $20 each. (Let’s not argue about whether or not that’s a good price right now, …read more

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One of the reasons I like blogs so much is I don’t have to try and track everything I think I should write about here. For example, I’ve been a proponent of ebooks since the beginning; I’ve been singularly unimpressed with ebook readers. Fortunately, Joe Wikert over at his Publishing 2020 Blog takes time to track these devices.
Today he’s got a post called Sony Reader Now Selling at Target . Using Google Trends, he’s tracking Amazon’s Kindle (current price, $359) and Sony’s Ebook Reater ($299 at Target). It’s amazing. He speculates that Amazon doesn’t get the market as well as …read more