Anyone ever sold e-books?

emjay · 2008-06-24, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by ronnie

What does selling passwords have to do with e-books? Not like you need a password to buy an e-book. Also PP takes a small cut of the deal, sure you get a good chunk.

OK, say there was a surfer in say India who wanted to by the Ebook/Information, but has no credit card or paypal?

Saturnin · 2008-06-25, 01:10 PM

One of my more successful on-line ventures is selling ebooks. I chose specifically not to use PayPal, although that has probably cost me business. I do use CCBill, Amazon and Lulu.com though. (Helps that I own all the rights to the content.)

To be honest, selling on Amazon is kind of a pain, since things have to be reformatted every time you make an update or change.

I haven't had too much luck with affiliates, but general sales metrics are pretty good. (Don't quit your day job...)

As far as geography goes, I am surprised at where my traffic comes from (mainly US), as opposed to where I thought it might come from. To be honest, the credit card barrier is not a real concern to me, since my demographic usualy already has this. If they don't, I'll be happy to sell to them when they do.

As far as marketing goes, that one was a tough nut to crack. I had a lot of surfers, and interested people, but few sales. The content is unique... nothing else like it. So the trick was making the tour compelling. Once that was done, sales went up significantly. Now the trick is finding pockets of potential readers and buyers.

2008-06-25, 01:10 PM	#2
Saturnin A woman is like beer. They look good, they smell good, and you'd step over your own mother just to get one! Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Edge of the Universe Posts: 53	One of my more successful on-line ventures is selling ebooks. I chose specifically not to use PayPal, although that has probably cost me business. I do use CCBill, Amazon and Lulu.com though. (Helps that I own all the rights to the content.) To be honest, selling on Amazon is kind of a pain, since things have to be reformatted every time you make an update or change. I haven't had too much luck with affiliates, but general sales metrics are pretty good. (Don't quit your day job...) As far as geography goes, I am surprised at where my traffic comes from (mainly US), as opposed to where I thought it might come from. To be honest, the credit card barrier is not a real concern to me, since my demographic usualy already has this. If they don't, I'll be happy to sell to them when they do. As far as marketing goes, that one was a tough nut to crack. I had a lot of surfers, and interested people, but few sales. The content is unique... nothing else like it. So the trick was making the tour compelling. Once that was done, sales went up significantly. Now the trick is finding pockets of potential readers and buyers.