The Kindle ecosystem makes a ton of money for Amazon. In fact, it makes so much on the e-books it sells that it can afford to lose money on the hardware. The Kindle books are so profitable because they offer the reader instant gratification. But Amazon isn’t the only one profiting from Kindle books. The authors are profiting, as well. All the marketing muscle of Amazon is available to promote the books on the Kindle platform. If you become a Kindle author, you can take advantage of all that Amazon does to promote the platform and the books on it. Even better, Kindle books produce recurring... [...]