In February, my sister uploaded a short fiction eBook and sold 541 copies in just 25 days – mostly on Amazon. She earned over $1,100 dollars. The eBook was a short romance of only about 65 pages; a "novelette" she called it. And, it only took her approximately a week to write. She priced it at $2.99, netting $2.09 from Amazon for every copy sold.

3 Reasons I Believe Short Fiction eBook Sales are Only Going to Grow

When it comes to the question of "how long should an eBook be to sell," many get the impression that you have to publish a full-fledged novel to make sales. As my sister's modest self-publishing success story illustrates, this isn't the case.

Following is why I believe this trend will continue.