make money writing ebooks?

Question

i guess ebooks could cover anything, from electronic copies of manuals to your favourite novel.

i am curently stuck in a dead end part-time job, and desperately need to get out. i'd love to work for myself earning money my own way and then i though of ebooks. i don't have incredibly fast typing skills but they are accurate, i can use all main microsoft packages (inc. publisher) and can learn new programs quickly.

but what i wanna know is: who writes these things? where would i start? can i do it too from home? and what sort of money could i make?
i don't need a lot to live on and a minimum of the equivalent of £60 (approx US$120 or AU$143) a week would be fine.

Answer 1

I've written an ebook myself. You need to start visiting marketing forums such as http://forums.digitalpoint.com/ & warriorforum to pick up a few skills. Writing an ebook is one thing, but you need to start marketing them as well which can be a lot more difficult.

To answer your questions.

1) normal people write these things. start practising your writing by submitting articles to ezinearticles.com
2) start with articles. you can quickly turn a handful of articles into an ebook
3) yes- you can do it from home using word and a pdf document compiler - no special skills are required
4) it can be done as long as you focus on the task at hand

Answer 2

Biggest problem is how to discourage scam merchants from changing the 'Copyright' name and 'reselling' your eBook as their own work ...

You put all your effort into creating the work, and sell almost none = they put all their effort into marketting and sell thousands ...