Book 32. Ways to make money from a blog include advertising revenue, tips (donations), merchandise sales (e-books), and selling the blog itself to companies, etc.

Hello. This is β (Beta). Today's topic is about ebooks. Ebooks are digital textbooks, and I'm thinking of selling these ebooks for 100 yen each.

Because it's digital, there are no stamp duty costs, and you can sell it in large quantities without incurring additional costs. The reason why ebooks are good is that there's no need to print and distribute them on paper, saving you money. Of course, there are no shipping costs either. And no labor costs either.

I think this is a huge advantage. Because books that would cost 1,000 or 2,000 yen as physical books can be sold at a cheap price of essentially 100 yen as ebooks. Of course, you have to pay a commission to the platform that sells the ebooks, but even that commission is only 20% or 30%, so you can still sell them at an affordable price.

The reason I'm selling an ebook for 100 yen is because I'm free to set the price, and that's the price I want to sell it for. I also plan to use the internet to gather a lot of information about ebooks in the future, so I'd like to post about that on my blog as well.

I've been running this blog for about two years now. This blog is primarily a research blog. As part of that, I'd like to share useful information such as life lessons and know-how.

The only thing I can say is that I would like to include ebooks as part of my revenue, but once I make a certain amount of profit, I would like to donate the rest to charity. Ebooks are one of the things I would like to try, but since I have always read physical books, I would like to buy a device like Amazon's Kindle that allows me to read ebooks in the future.

Regarding ebooks, I'd like to share various things, from activity reports to know-how. In reality, I think earning the first revenue is the most difficult part. I started blogging seriously in 2017, so I've enjoyed it quite a bit over the past nine years, up to the present day in 2026.

During those nine years, there was a five-year gap where I took a break from writing blog posts. Ultimately, I think there are several ways to make money from blogging, such as advertising revenue, donations, merchandise sales (e-books), and selling the blog itself to companies.

I plan to monetize my blog using Amazon affiliate programs. I will be selling ebooks based on this blog. Ultimately, after 10 years of blogging, I've realized that it's difficult to achieve significant revenue without continuing a blog for about 10 years. I suppose skilled bloggers can start earning money from their first year.

Although it's been a grueling nine years, I've gained invaluable experience. There's a Chinese proverb that says, "If you learn to fish, you'll be happy for life." I intend to continue writing, like this blog, for the next five, ten years, and beyond, as long as my life continues.

That's all. Thank you for listening. This is β. See you again.