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, lets say someone has just written a lengthy book on how to build a particularly exotic type of wooden East Coast Dory boat and taken it off to the publisher. The publisher would decline it out of hand saying that only one in a thousand people would be interested in that.

On the internet however one in a thousand buyers means 225,000 potential buyers in North America alone !

290,000 in Europe and 364,000 in Asia.

And those buyers will search for that book on the internet!

The opportunity for those who wish to grasp it is obvious.

Many alert marketers have already seized on the opportunity and many more do every day.

Fortunately the market and the scope of topics are vast and there is plenty of opportunity to work on.

Here is what they do.

Firstly, there is no need to write the book.

Authors are perfectly willing to let you sell the book and split the proceeds.

Thats right, you can create a storefront, stock it with books of your choice from thousands available, have the credit card transaction taken care of by others and expect to have a check in your mailbox in two weeks for half of the value of books sold.

Books range in price from $15 to $100 plus but the average is about $40.

Sounds simple? Well many hucksters on the internet would have you believe that there is nothing to it. Read their book and instantly learn the marketing secrets that will make you $2000 dollars a day for 15 minutes work a day

Well as senior folks I am sure you know that when you see claims like that it is time to run a mile!

Here are the straight goods.

You get out what you put in. Same as most things in life.

You do not need to be a computer genius. Many folks are involved who are just able to send emails and can copy and paste!

It is quite possible to earn an extra $1000 per month with the right tools and not a lot of effort.

To make very big money requires a very big effort, lots of research and lots of time.

I have read a lot of how to books on marketing and done a lot of research.

It comes down to this.

[1]You need to have a marketing system which provides you with a professional website, a huge supply of book titles and a reliable credit card system and a reliable payroll system. You will not find a marketing system contained in an Ebook on Emarketing so dont waste your time and money going there.

[2] You have to learn how to drive traffic to your bookstore once it is open because otherwise you will have a book store that no one can find! There are many ways to promote your site and these will be discussed by your marketing system provider.

A link to accomplish both these objectives can be found in my bio below along with a real live email address on the site if you need any "real person" help.

With these two things in place I believe it is quite possible for you to increase your retirement income to an extent that will let you spend winters in Hawaii or Mexico ---and remember, your storefront is completely portable, all you need is the internet connection and they are everywhere these days.