Write an ebook?!

geordie_joe

Immaturity wrote: »

He may be offering a niche product that nobody else has wrote about?
If a lot (or even a wanting minority) wants this product he will have a demand and technically speaking an unlimited supply therefore able to command such a price.

If and may are big words.

I for one would not set out on a project like this until I was sure I had done the research and DID have a product nobody else was selling, and that there IS a market for it.

That is why I asked if the research had been done.

Immaturity

geordie_joe wrote: »

If and may are big words.

I for one would not set out on a project like this until I was sure I had done the research and DID have a product nobody else was selling, and that there IS a market for it.

That is why I asked if the research had been done.

You are missing the point to be honest.

geordie_joe

Immaturity wrote: »

You are missing the point to be honest.

No, the point is.......the op has not said what the ebook is, nor if he/she has done any research. I suspect he/she hasn't done any research otherwise he/she would have noticed that everyone selling ebooks on ebay do it via cd/dvd.

So sitting and thinking "they might have a niche book and they might have customers" is not going to help.

If you have another point then please explain it to me, saying "you are missing the point" and not saying what the point is, is.....well....pointless!

PasturesNew

Selling an ebook isn't about how many others there are, or how good this one is .... if the marketing's good it'll sell. Simple as.

geordie_joe

PasturesNew wrote: »

Selling an ebook isn't about how many others there are, or how good this one is .... if the marketing's good it'll sell. Simple as.

I'd like to see you try to sell an ebook on ebay for £1.75 if there are several other sellers selling a DVD with hundreds of ebooks on the same subject for £1.75.

Marketing is no help on ebay when others are selling more/better for the same price.

What would you buy, an ebook on fishing for £1.75 or a DVD containing 200,000 ebooks including 600 about fishing?

PasturesNew

geordie_joe wrote: »

I'd like to see you try to sell an ebook on ebay for £1.75 if there are several other sellers selling a DVD with hundreds of ebooks on the same subject for £1.75.

Marketing is no help on ebay when others are selling more/better for the same price.

What would you buy, an ebook on fishing for £1.75 or a DVD containing 200,000 ebooks including 600 about fishing?

I still say it's down to the marketing.

If the title/advert are written so that people find it, then if the blurb and picture of the ebook convinces people that this ebook will solve their problem.... they'll buy that one over the other one.

geordie_joe

PasturesNew wrote: »

I still say it's down to the marketing.

If the title/advert are written so that people find it,

It's on ebay, they will find it, even if they have to look down a huge list of ebooks. But the point is they will find many others too.

PasturesNew wrote: »

then if the blurb and picture of the ebook convinces people that this ebook will solve their problem.... they'll buy that one over the other one.

Stop twisting things, they will not buy that one book over a DVD, for the same price, containing 600 books on the same subject.

Even if we are talking about one ebook against another, what is to say the other ebook blurb won't also convince the customer that it will solve their problem?

What if the customer doesn't have a problem?

adSedulity

I don't know if this answers your question, although hope it proves useful. I would recommend that you avoid the eBay route, and instead pay for an electronic distribution channel such as eJunkie (http : // www. e-junkie. com). With eJunkie, you pay a set amount monthly, and they host and manage payment and downloads of the eBook. You can set it up for affiliation, and manage these payments using Paypal. The alternative is something like lulu.com (http : // www. lulu. com / uk /publish /ebooks) which now offer an eBook publishing option, although they take a cut out of every purchase.

I think eBay is a tad overrated but the many make money off of them. Perhaps, you could sell physical copies of the eBook through eBay, and insert a link to the hosted version?

Nonetheless, good luck with it.


N.B. Apologies for the broken (space) links, it appears that as a new member I cannot post links

StoneWilson

for indivisual customers, send a link will be much prefered, cos it's easy, and don't take long time, they may give it a try.
for companies you'd better send them CD or DVD, and of course, make sure your CD and DVD well filled, cos companies take things more seriously than indivisual customers, you have to give them enough to make them get interested in your products.