Clickbank's homepage claims that they have paid out well over $1.3 billion to people who are selling their e-books and e-products through their merchant service. If you're thinking about creating an online product or an e-book then you may consider using Clickbank as your merchant services provider.

Clickbank has been around for about a decade so their online merchant services have accumulated have become quite popular for individuals wanting to sell their electronic goods.

There are several Clickbank calculators online that make it easier to work out how much it is possible to make from e-book sales per sale, and how much Clickbank keeps as a merchant service fee. Here is a free Clickbank calculator.

Usually, people who sell their electronic goods through Clickbank make most of their sales using an affiliate program. The free calculator above illustrates that sellers are able to choose a percentage of the e-book price that affiliates will receive in exchange for referring other people to your product.

Selling a product such as an e-book online requires a :

• Good idea
• Basic website
• PDF file converter
• Traffic referral sources

The whole process is quite simple and many more people are writing and selling their own online products every day. However, not all of them take off. Some products sit on the web making almost no sales. Someone who is selling an e-book for $30 will need about 300 sales each month to make over $9,000 a month, not considering affiliate and transaction fees.

If you would like to create your own professional product properly to ensure that it takes off, I highly recommend you to pick up a copy of my e-book "Words Into Dollars", written specifically for enthusiastic web entrepreneurs and writers to give an overlay of the process involved in online selling, as well as how to avoid the pitfalls.