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The internet has changed so many things in our world. As consumers, snail mail letters were replaced with email. We Skype instead of draining our wallets with long-distance phone calls. And we shop on Amazon instead of fighting for a parking space and dealing with the crowds at the local shopping mall.On the flip side of that, as internet entrepreneurs, we use email to market our products and services, Skype to conduct meetings and can earn a living selling on Amazon.com.And that's just a small taste of all the disruptions we've enjoyed thanks to the internet. One of the biggest disrupted industries and one of those that provides a great path to a solid making money online venture for an individual entrepreneur is in book publishing. Specifically, publishing and selling ebooks online.You see, what the big publishing houses do with big offices of editors, writers, administrative staff... and then big printing presses... then distribution centers to get their books out to bookstores around the country... all to hopefully get books in the hands of customers... you can do on the computer you have right now. If that's not massive disruption, I don't know what is. With all the red tape, "play to pay" tactics, and the lack of marketing support from the big publishing houses (along with low royalties) many are finding that self-publishing is a much better option (and in most cases a more profitable option!).There are some key differences between this self-publishing (which, by the way, doesn't have the negative connotations it used to) and the traditional publishing process. You won't be dealing with printed books, for one. That eliminates the expense and hassle of actually creating books, storing them, and delivering them -- and that may not even sell. It's going to be all digital. These are ebooks, which can be read on devices like Amazon's Kindle, on another tablet or smartphone, or even on a computer.From humble beginnings, ebooks now sell in the millions each year, rep