e books. What and how are they.

uktim29

chi-chi wrote: »

I was saying that having looked at many websites selling ebooks, most of them appear to be trashy "Get Rich Quick" schemes. The tone of the books is sensationalist, promising riches that seem too good to be true (remember the motto, "if it's seems to good to be true, then it probably is")

This is a quote from Johns site:

"Also, this is not a get rich quick scheme, there is no such thing. It is not just a case of listing a few eBooks expecting to make your fortune. It takes work and effort to make the sort of figures I am making. And most importantly it takes time."

I've not highlighted the text in bold thats how it appears on Johns site.

go4it

uktim29 wrote: »

This is a quote from Johns site:

"Also, this is not a get rich quick scheme, there is no such thing. It is not just a case of listing a few eBooks expecting to make your fortune. It takes work and effort to make the sort of figures I am making. And most importantly it takes time."

I've not highlighted the text in bold thats how it appears on Johns site.

If I go into a shop and want a product, I expect HONEST and MORALS from the person selling me the product. If they sell me something for £100 and do not expect them to sell it to the next person for £70. If they did that they were being dishonest to me, as they did not sell at the best price.

Sales work on a basic principle. Stock in a shop, you can have it today at this price. Weeks later the stock is still there, you can have it £30 less. I am fine with that. Even if I bought the product weeks ago at full price, I have got many weeks use out of it, and there was no guarantee that it would be reduced. You cannot reduce a product on the day and sell the same product to different people for different prices. That is not marketing - it is daylight robbery for the person who bought it at full price!!

Ebooks are popular because they are easy for the seller, automated delivery etc. If an ebook was so good it would have been published, the seller / writer would look to get it published and put some effort into the business. But with ebooks you do not get to check it first, unlike a hard copy of a book. There are no refunds. A very easy busines for someone who is all talk but lacks the skills to actually run a viable business that would benefit people.

TTMCMschine

chi-chi wrote: »

Thanks you so much for the advice. How easy is ebook creator? Is it like a basic word processing package? Some of the ebook builders look a bit complicated. Also, I need to find one which is Mac compatible. How do you generate traffic to your own website to sell these books?

Thanks

Hi chi-chi,
since posting that I've been doing some more research & have found something I think is much better & easier to use. The ebook creator required you to save each page as a webpage (easy to do in word but tiresome) before creating the ebook, and then when you sold a copy the customer had to come back to you for a password. It caused a bit of confusion occassionally with customers even though the ebook explained exactly what to do once they tried opening it.

I've now found secure-ebook which looks a thousand times better, especially for marketing your ebook. Basically, you just stick your PDF into their software & it wraps a windows file around it. You can set it so that people can preview pages from your ebook without paying to see if they like it, but in order to read the rest they click a buy it now button contained within the ebook they're looking at. When they buy, they are automatically given a password from the secure-ebook server, therefore automating it & making access instant for the customer. The ebook is locked to their computer, so if they give a copy to their friend, when they try & open it they get the preview copy & have to buy a password to read the rest!

You can do all sorts of other things, like revoke access to ebooks if people want refunds, etc. It means basically that you can post/send your ebook all over the net to increase its exposure without worrying about its security.

They do charge a fee, but it seems reasonable to me, and I want to find out 2 things before I give it a go, which are a) can people still strip the PDF from the secure ebook, & b) is it compatable with mac?

But other than that it looks good & I think I'm going to give it a whirl.


To get people to my website I use adwords for the main competitive keyword, but my website has been up for a while now & ranks fairly highly in google for other search terms. I get about 5000-6000 hits a month, but I'd love to boost that significantly!

uktim29

go4it wrote: »

If I go into a shop and want a product, I expect HONEST and MORALS from the person selling me the product. If they sell me something for £100 and do not expect them to sell it to the next person for £70. If they did that they were being dishonest to me, as they did not sell at the best price.

Sales work on a basic principle. Stock in a shop, you can have it today at this price. Weeks later the stock is still there, you can have it £30 less. I am fine with that.

These sorts of sales tactics are all over the place, particually online. In the housing market one person may off ther full price for a house whilst the owner may well have taken £5000 less. This also happens frequently in the motoring trade. Infact if you go to privately run shops or car boot sales how common is it to see someone interested in a product but turn it down because of the price, then the seller offer lower price? It happens all the time!