I predict next year at this time, eReader devices will be sold for much less than they currently are today. Additionally, I predict there will be many more Books made available for download at any one of the newer networking eBook downloadable services such as Google and Borders.com. This is in addition to other current services that exist today.

Target Corp. announced they will sell Amazon’s e-reader Kindle in select stores beginning in April 2010.

Target will be the first brick-and-mortar retailer in partnership with Amazon’s ‘the Kindle’.

The Kindle is one of Amazon.com Inc.’s best-selling products and sells for $259.

Target will sell the Kindle at its downtown Minneapolis store and 102 south Florida stores beginning April 25, 2010.  Additional Target stores will begin selling The Kindle later this year.

Amazon believes shoppers having an opportunity to test out and experience the Kindle prior to a purchase will allow a better position with their competitors such as Barnes & Noble’s Nook reader and Apple’s iPad, which comes with electronic book-reading software.

Google Chart for e-Reader and eBook Interest

The iPad is a perfect example of an electronic book reader plus.

About Publishing Books and e-Books-

As a publisher I can appreciate the iPad as another e-reader device to read entertainment novels, informational articles, e-zines, educational content and the specialized access to the latest news.

I am always pleased with the popularization of electronic books for many varying reasons. Immediate access, less bulk to carry, search capability and greater volumes of content at my finger tips.

This definitely is the period for any aspiring writers to consider the self-publishing environment with more attention to the many eBooks and or Print On Demand opportunities available for the author.

The popularity of E-book readers has increased greatly in the last years. Although, Sony was one of the first to offer an e-reader device as early as 2004, Amazon.com jumped into the race with the Kindle in 2007.

In the last six months Barnes and Noble launched The Nook and made  e-books easily available, many free.

Google launches their ebooks services for E-book sales in June or July 2010.

Google will also allow book retailers along with independent shops o sell Google Editions on their own sites. Google intends to give their reseller partners the bulk of sales revenue.

You can buy eBook at Borders.com or through other applications to download it instantly with your device choice of smartphones, eReaders, or PC.

Currently, there are a good many companies who manufacture and sell an e-reader device. I will discuss others in another article.

Forecasting Topics

The reality is people are reading e-books in larger numbers now than ever before. Since electronic books are improved and made available on less expensive devices, the demand for e-readers becomes greater.

Additionally, Amazon and other companies offer Kindle books on cell phones. Statistics are showing the numbers for ebook downloads on the iPhone increase each day.

Google Top Searches #1

Google offers millions of public domain books available free on its Google Book Search via a new cell phone application.

Cell phones now compete as primary device e-readers with many users accessing their content via mobility.

eBooks can be read from Google Editions using a web browser, thereby eliminating the necessity of e-reader device.

There are rumors that Google over time will program their own software to read their eBooks on devices like an iPhone or iPad.

Such future eBook viewers and readers are different than Amazon’s digital book business read on its Kindle e-reader.

The project is Google’s attempt to crack into the market of distributing current and backlist works.

There is no doubt that the Kindle from Amazon will also be a choice for eBook readers as well as the iPhone,.

Many cell phone users would rather do everything they possibly can on their iPhone or electronic gadget.

This includes reading content and accessing online books via text and audiobooks.

There is no doubt the next few years will see a rapid convergence to smaller electronic devices for reading ‘E-content’ online.

The current market seems to suggest in its analysis that the iPhone, Barnes & Noble, MobiPocket and Kindle will be among the primary contenders; however, Smartphones, PDA’s and mobile Readers, Sony, Spring Design and IREX are close behind. I expect to see more and improved devices to satisfy the growing requests to access online ‘E-content’.

People continue to read e-books in greater numbers when electronic books are improved and available on less expensive devices.

Nevertheless, it is my prediction based upon observation and research that over the next few years, e-book readers will increase by greater numbers than in years prior.

Google Top Searches #2

This makes it a very exciting time for aspiring and existing authors to become self-publishers in the electronic format eBook pioneer era.

There are a few different easy ways to publish your e-Book to Amazon or to create your eBook for the ‘MobiPocket’ reader.

How Can You Create Your Digital Product?

The easiest and quickest way to begin is to write your material using a word processor and converting it to a PDF or HTML format.

Now, you may be thinking that you know very little about word processing formats, nothing at all about creating PDF or HTML formats.

You do not have to be a technical genius. Just follow simple instructions to save or export your material in formats you can upload to Amazon.com and be sold to Kindle readers.

I have received emails and questions from writers who do not have a Kindle or other type device that reads these particular type formats.

It is not necessary you purchase any e-reader device to be able to write content for the specified device.

This apparently is somewhat confusing to some; as they do not fully comprehend the process in creating the actual e-book.

I will discuss the details in further posts; however in this article I will make you aware of your opportunities and the software you can obtain at no charge to achieve your eBook creation.

MobiPocket Software to create ebook applications is a free software to download.

Open Office Writer is a great application for creating PDF documents that can be uploaded to Amazon for the Kindle and Print on Demand Books.

You Can download Free MobiPocket software here.

You can download Free Open Office Suite Software here.

I certainly hope that all aspiring writers recognize that now is a chance of a lifetime to write, create and publish your works and materials for digital ebooks.

The very latest considerations to e-Reader Devices increasing are for the following benefits:

…………..

For many the Kindle and Nook eBook E-Reader Devices include features that entice our love for technical gadgets to leave the paper books behind and carry the less bulkier and easier access to our information.

After all, I certainly do not have the ability to re-size text for my reading comfort in a printed book.

Additionally, the Barnes & Noble’s Nook allows readers the capability to read MS Word Documents.

Easier access to a choice of libraries for Amazon’s, Google, Barnes and Noble and others benefit any reader. The demand for information on devices such as e-Readers opens many opportunities for authors.

…………..

If you would like to learn more, you can always contact me for further details.

Kindest Regards, B. Robert

If you happen to be a seller of info products, templates, eBooks or other type digital delivery items on eBay, this policy will affect you immediately.

Ebay’s announcement instructs Sellers to list Digital Delivery items in Category, [Everything Else], [Information Products] under [Classified Ad Format].

Those are straightforward instructions, if you can get it to work. It seems it works intermittently when testing and in reading others accounts.

eBay announced in early 2006 they were implementing an Auto Digital Delivery System for those selling and or offering digitally deliverable items. They even went so far as initially requiring payment via PayPal and Immediate Payment Only. That later was retracted due to conflicting processes. The fact remains that eBay will institute new procedures and policies, apparently, at the drop of a hat, with short-sighted-investigation into any actual reality of the policy and its effect on sellers as well as buyers.

I often wonder what qualifications Executives and Managerial Staff in Public or Private companies can own up to. Just how smart are they? eBay company and staff so many times reminds me of people sitting in rocking chairs. Always staying busy, but never going anywhere. Additionally, eBay jogs my memory of a tail wagging the dog instead of the dog wagging its tail!

Implementing a Digital Delivery System one year and then axing it the next with the lead time of a five day notice, surely, should represent and display a great deal of insight (could also be ‘incite’ because it inflames so many members);into eBay as a company.

The fact that eBay decided to implement new policy is not the real tribulation. What is so discouraging is the fact eBay gave such short notice to those reputable and long-standing members who have no part in any eBay shenanigans and policy manipulations.

What could have been eBay’s consideration to those that earn income to feed babies or put food on the family table; or for that matter of fact, senior citizens who pay utilities high-energy costs with the extra income earned from digital downloadable products?

Of course, there is always a work around; and, inevitably, there will be other alternatives when changes occur. This in reality is not as disastrous as when a tornado strikes without warning.

Frankly, an announcement with such major changes, in allowance for only five days notice, is not a realistic business action; At least, not by a highly regarded and community caring organization, in my humble opinion.

Stay tuned for some alternative action, you as a digital products seller can take immediately to prevent too much loss to income, as much as possibly feasible.

In the interim of my next post, where I will provide instructions to obtain your domain name, hosting space and learn the ins and outs for promoting and selling your digital products on the Internet ; stop by http://www.createEbooksEZ.com and read what products I am currently offering. I think you will find all that is included such as the software, tutorials and resources to be what you may be seeking to advance your Digital Products Business.

Kindest Regards, B. Robert

http://www.brendarobert.com
http://www.informationEworld.com
http://www.mysteryshoppersleuth.com
http://www.home-based-reps.com

I have to agree that many of them will compile your pre-written content. However, none will do the whole of creating quality ebooks and PDF documents as well as Open Office Suite.

There is so much to list on the advantages for using OpenOffice.org Writer, Impress and other modules, I will discuss each one individually.

To be continued…..