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Audio books have long been a popular source of entertainment for people with vision problems and young children. The rise of in car tape players,cds, mp3s and ipods has meant an increase in the popularity and use of audio books. While most people will listen to music in their cars and on the move an increasing number are using ipods, mp3s and cd players to listen to audio books and consequently the number of audio book stores is beginning to increase.
Put simply an audio book is the recording of the contents of a book that have been read aloud. Generally speaking audio books meant books that had been recorded on audio tape but with the rise of digital equipment audio books are now available on cd or in other digital formats. Since 2006 an increasing number of audio books are now available in downloadable form and are therefore instantly available from audio book stores. Recent estimates of the audio book business have been put at somewhere in the region of two billion dollars.
Audio books come in a number of different forms. Some of them are abridged or shortened forms of the original book and some are unabridged, presenting the original text in its entirety. Some books are produced as dramatized audio books with different voices and often a musical accompaniment. For many years books and longer stories have been serialized, particularly on BBC radio stations. Occasionally such series use the voice of well known actors. Just as there are book shows and book awards with money and prizes for award winners, so there are audio awards with prizes for the best performance/reading of different genres.
The increasing popularity of the audio book means that there are now an increasing number of titles that can be downloaded from online audio book stores. Audio books are a boon to those with sight problems or who, for one reason or another are unable to read the printed version for themselves. But more and more people are also discovering the great advantages of downloading from an audio book store and immediately being able to listen to one of the thousands of titles now available.
There are now an increasing number of books available in online audio book stores. Some websites are devoted entirely to selling audio books and sometimes there is an option to download straight away rather than wait for delivery. With different formats and an increase in the choice available it seems fair to say that the growth of audio book stores will continue and their products will continue bringing people pleasure for some considerable time to come.
I remember, and not only that, I took action and own a couple of information products myself.
Most of them are in the form of e-book. In fact, I own a store of them.
Then I realized that my income does not only come from e-book sale.
If you like me, own an e-book store, here are some possible streams of income (you might have thought of them but who knows) for you:
1) Become a Reseller.
Basically there are 2 choices of a Reseller:
A Master Resale Rights reseller
A Private Label Resale Rights reseller
Resale Rights allows you to claim a product as your own without having to create it. Creating a product takes time (sometimes a lot of times) and efforts. I understand that many new people or Newbies (as they are usually called) are either having too little time or limited resources thus becoming a reseller as one of the best, if not the best option.
Both types of resellers have different rights to a product and different income potential depending on the promotional effort.
2) Become an Affiliate.
As an affiliate, you don't create nor own a product.
An affiliate only promotes a product and earned commission on each sale.
There are a few companies of choice that provide such opportunity.
The most preferred is Clickbank with more than 10,000 digital products to choose from its marketplace. Amazon is another.
To promote other people products as an individual e-book store owner, there's a need for different plan of action.
3) Earning from a list.
If you have been around in the Internet Marketing scene, the phrase ‘the money is in the list' is probably something you have heard thousands of times.
You can simply build a list after someone buys from you. Getting people to buy from you is another matter altogether.
Or you can build a list simply by directing them to a squeeze page. If you choose to do this then the plan needs to include getting visitors to that page.
After having a substantial subscriber numbers, you can plan a way to monetize your list.
4) Earning from Adsense.
Adsense is a form of affiliate program. It is runs by Google and it pays every time someone clicks on the Ads on your website.
When using Adsense ads, you actually have no control over the kind of ads that appear on your site and since these ads carry different ‘value' per click, the only thing you can control is the quality of info you put on your e-book store.
The better the quality, the higher the chances a high value ad appears on your site.
Naturally, it requires a number of visitors who clicks to earn significant income from Adsense.
These are four possible streams of income for an individual e-book store owner. However, I can't guarantee that stream of cash will start flowing after you build your e-book store but if you build it and put the right promotional effort; generating revenue is not far fetched.
It might start as an extra income first but it will grow from there.