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Last month my revenue was shy of $35,000, pretty minor expenses, and it's basically passive.

I sell a combination of e-books and physical books, I have a few dozen titles.

Any generic advice on selling ebooks? I'm preparing one and it will be the main offering of the site besides an established forum.

I do most of my volume through e-book reader sales like kindle. A lot of people do this whole "launch formula" thing with e-books, but I've never tried that, I just pick topics that gets decent google juice and let organic search bring in people to the sales site. I also pick topics that aren't covered, or at least not well cover, on amazon and the like.

I have seen the typical affiliate style 'how to make $100 a day on autopilot from adsense' e books around for a while and sold via click bank and the like. I take it yours are more mainstream?

Are you then saying that your sales channel is Amazon and selling PDF/kindle books. Any examples your willing to give of one of your titles?

Sure, take a look at the techzing link in the sibling comments, I talk about several of the titles in that interview.

I looked you up on the Kindle and didn't find anything. I'm guessing you use pseudonyms? Any reason why?

He was on Techzing - more info there - http://techzinglive.com/page/187/techzing-38-pete-michaud-re...

I've recently started working on a book that I intend to sell via Kindle. Any gotchas, pointers, things-you-wish-you-had-known and etc will highly be appreciated?

Price for volume. Also, no book of mine that had established competition in the search rankings of amazon ever sold very well. YMMV.

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