A recent on-line news article mentioned some
amazing statistics about ebooks and information products in the next
few years. For the people that think information products are a dying
business, have not seen what is about to be revealed here. Read on to
find out if you are going to be part of the revolution in the written
word, or will you sit on the sidelines and watch the profits pass you
by?
Only 1.5% of the $6.8 billion (yes billion) dollars spent
this year was on ebooks. Next year, the industry is on track to have 10
million users with home ebook readers. Just think of the potential
there. 10 million people all hungry to put books on their new devices,
and they need books to fill it. Are you going to be the next expert
that people go to for advice? Are you going to be the next person that
runs their own tiny ebook empire from home?
However, the
statistics get even better than that. 10 million owners of ebooks
readers is just a drop in the bucket compared to what is coming down
the pipe. There are over 115 million users of MP3 players out there.
Just look what happened to the CD, it's almost obsolete in just a few
short years. There is so much potential for digital information
products out there. Of course the printed word will never be obsolete,
but it may be for certain types of information, such as how-to products
(the perfect format for ebooks).
Just imagine a digital catalog
of recipes in your kitchen, or an entire library of fix-it and how to
books on a touch screen in your garage. Maybe you are an investor and
during your commute you can read all of your digital investment advice
on a portable reader. All of this is available today and ebooks and
information products are barely mainstream at all.
There are many
naysayers out there that think the world of ebooks and information
products is passe. I wonder if they have noticed all of the failed
newspapers out there, because everyone is getting their news from
portable devices and their desk tops.
Just think of the kind of
impact you could make if you became one of the go-to experts for a
particular product niche. No inventory, no publishers to deal with, and
no middle men. It can take over a year to get a printed book to market.
You can create an entire information product FROM SCRATCH and have it
up on line making you money in as little as 5 days. The world of ebooks
is far from dead, and if you want to be part of the upcoming
information revolution, you better start getting on the train soon, or
it will leave without you.
