Online Income for Cash Strapped Pensioners

It is common knowledge that many folks these days are retiring on marginal incomes and are having difficulties affording some of the niceties of life.

It is difficult when you watch your friends who have fat corporate pensions taking off on cruises or heading off to Mexico or Hawaii for the winter and you have to stay home and watch the snow accumulate.

Worse yet is when the postcards start showing up in your mailbox. You know. The pretty ones with the palm trees and blue seas!

Or if you are one of the millions of seniors who are now on line, these messages come even faster over the internet causing you heartburn just that much sooner!

Talking about the internet, some of the statistics that are coming in are showing staggering increases in computer usage all over the world.

As of the end of 2005 there are over a billion people worldwide online. This number is increasing rapidly every year.

It breaks down to 364 million in Asia, 290 million in Europe, 225million in North America and 79 million in Latin America. The rest are scattered all over.

This represents the fastest and most pervasive growth of any technology ever in the history of man.

This phenomenon represents an income opportunity for those that care to think about it and to take advantage of it.

It is now possible for anyone with a modicum of ability to earn an income on the internet marketing things of interest these billion people are looking for.

And they are looking!

One of the things that people shop for most on the internet is information.

And they are quite prepared to pay when they find the information they are looking for.

The market for information has spawned a phenomenon known as the Ebook.

The Ebook is an electronic book created by an author on a given subject and is available to a purchaser on line instantly as a download for a price.

The seller needs to maintain no inventory and the credit card transaction is handled by an intermediary so the seller does not need to arrange that either!

The demand for Ebooks is absolutely huge and growing.

Amazingly, an individual is now able to create a storefront on the internet and market the Ebooks that these people are looking for.

The economics of this phenomenon are quite compelling.

For example, let