If you currently market your writing online, through sites such as Associated Content or Constant Content, you know there’s an enormous demand information of all types. One of the most powerful strategies for multiplying earnings from your writing is to recycle non-exclusive articles you’ve written for the various online submission sites into a larger scale work such as an ebook that can be sold online. It can be very exciting to be an ebook author and you’ve already done much of the work by writing your own original articles. Why not use your articles to write and sell an ebook to increase your online writing income?

While many people think the task of writing an ebook is a monumental undertaking, the truth is if you publish articles on a narrowly defined group of topics, you may already have the material for several ebooks on your computer just waiting to be organized and compiled. An ebook can be as simple as a group of articles grouped together with some added writing between articles to bridge the gaps and make the book flow better. To write and sell an ebook is not such an overwhelming endeavor after all.

For example, suppose you love to write articles about fly fishing techniques. You’ve written over twenty articles on that topic and consider yourself to be somewhat of an expert on fly fishing. Your articles get lots of page views so you know there’s significant interest in the topic. Since you wrote these articles as non-exclusives, you’re free to use the material you already have to write and sell an ebook.

Why not gather together those already completed articles and formulate them into groups based on subtopic? These could form the main topic headings for your first ebook. Once you have the articles grouped, you can outline your table of contents. Now that you have your table of contents and subject headings, it’s a simple matter of using your articles to fill in the body of each subject heading and manipulating the wording so it flows smoothly. An ebook will come together more quickly than you ever dreamed possible and you’ll have spent minimal time on additional writing.

Once you have your ebook organized, it’s time to come up with a compelling title. The title needs to solve a problem, be compelling, and arouse emotion in your reader. Which title would you rather read?:

The Online Guide to Fly Fishing
Conquering the Waters: The Complete Novice’s Guide to Fly Fishing Like a Pro

The second title packs more emotion punch and will probably compel your reader to want to purchase your ebook more than the first one. Remember, a title can make or break sales of an ebook.

Once you’ve completed your ebook it’s time to put it into ebook format. Most successful ebooks are published in pdf format which makes it capable of being read on both PCs and Macs which widens your potential customer base. There are a variety of free software programs that will convert your document to PDF format. Newer versions of Microsoft Word can save documents as pdf and Adobe Acrobat is an online service that will convert up to five PDF free or sign up for their premium features. You’ll also want to design an eye catching ebook cover to grab the potential reader’s attention. Once you’ve completed your book, there are a variety of ebook directories where you can promote and sell your book.

And you thought it would be hard to write and sell an ebook? Nothing could be further from the truth. Why not gather together those non-exclusive articles and get started today?

Dr. Kristie is a medical doctor with a concentration in family practice. She also has an undergraduate degree in both Biology and Psychology as well a master’s in Clinical Pathology. Dr.Kristie has been a published writer for the last two years and was named one of Associated Content’s top 1,000 writers for 2007.