E-Commerce Idea #2: Selling Books
Wanna know a secret? Everyone and their momma wants to write a book. If you ask a group of 100 people, “How many of you have ever thought about writing a book?”, more than half of them would raise their hands. If you ask a follow-up question to them, “What would you write a book about?”, you’d get all kinds of responses. Books on money, books on relationships, books on raising children, self-help books, faith-based stories, inspiring and motivational books, books on effective ways to sell, books on how fix something or do something. Books about travel. Everyone has a book idea. But here’s the problem – the majority (if not all of them) have never taken the time to write a book.
Books are hard to write.
But you have a solution. A book featuring 20 new authors. They are going to be featured in YOUR book. Each of the will contribute a story (or stand alone chapter) to your book. For instance, you are writing an inspiring book of women that have overcome a negative situation in their lives and come out on the other end victorious. Each of the women have a story. Each woman contributes a 5-7 page story of their negative situation, how they get into it, and how they got of it and grew as a woman. If each woman only contributes 6 pages, that’s the makings of a 120-page book.