Is eBook Still popular as a Product?

Ebooks still work very well, particularly in the $7 - $47 range. To create a higher priced product many product creators add video but it's not strictly necessary. Many people still prefer the written word to video anyway because it's easier to skim though the information to find what you're looking for.

True. Ebooks are so easy to sell, easy to offer and easily helping you get attention. There are still more and more newbies coming your way around looking for essential and "free" things to learn online and ebooks are both worth the read and payment as long as it ensures to have the value it's giving its readers - even it has less pages as well it doesn't matter

Just curious, Dennis...what do you think about people who buy your product (or somehow acquire it without buying it...) who make it available as a FREE download to those who register for their sites, WITHOUT you giving permission?

Ever run into this problem before?

Totally agreed. eBooks can leads to huge profit, and they are still wildly popular! Just make sure to create some nice graphics, a nice copy and people will be sure to buy it .

Especially with the development of the Electronic pads Kindle, Ipad, etc......

Amazon has one as well.

I am so happy to hear that !:p

And Nook. And Sony PRS. And iPad/iPhone. And Kobo Reader...I think you get the idea!

The market for eBooks is only going to grow bigger every day.

Bill

LOL I was thinking kindle as I read your post

eBooks are only getting hotter, so yes you can definitely sell them...and make some good money doing it!

And also...


I agree that Kindle is BIG. And not just that, but you can also download the software to any android device, your computer...whatever. And there are so many products being released now specifically appealing to this market (ipad, Samsung Galaxy, Blackberry Playbook-the list goes on and on).

Gives me goosebumps just thinking about it! lol

I never hesitate to buy an ebook if it's on a topic I am interested in and, of course, if I can afford it. :-)

Definitely possible...however, one should tred cautiously here if they don't write their material themselves...JMHO

EBook marketing is still a good way of earning great deal of money. But you have to know some secret techniques for increasing sells of your eBook.

You have to display a sample page of your eBook to make the buyer curious.
Initially you have to sell the book at a discount rate for increasing its familiarity.

You can divide your eBook in several online newsletters and charge the visitors for monthly subscription.

You can create a bundle package of several eBooks, because most people prefer it for buying.

Honestly....

Don't just create one eBook....create a "course" or a "system"....

Lay out all the things you envision being in your main eBook, then, extra certain things, and make them into their own books...

Have graphics made for each one, call it a system, assign individual retail prices to each....and, sell them as a system at a higher price

eBook Sales Increase Nearly 116% In January, Paperback Sales Plunge Nearly 31%

Who Wants To Be A (Kindle) Millionaire? - Kiri Blakeley - The Bold Type - Forbes

These two stories should answer your question and make your eyes bug out in astonishment.

I've worked in traditional print and web publishing for over 30 years. I'm friends with NY Times best selling authors and top reporters and on and on. The print publishers and newspapers got into the web late in the game. Now they're being bowled over by web/electronic media and trying to catch up but the bull is out of the pen!

It's a matter of math, reach, expansion. There is no way in heck you cannot sell 5,000 copies of an ebook for $1-$3. In the case of the young lady Amanda Hocking in the story above, she's a rare exception but might not be for long. Ebooks are convenient, cheap and easy to acquire. If you had a Facebook page with 5,000 fans and sold them an ebook for $1 every month you would have some great gravy money for a fiscal year.

I work in comics and animation too and we're waiting for Amazon Kindle to be able to support better graphics. Our comic ebooks are in pdf format now but when e-readers like Kindle upgrade we will rock. Why? Because we can sell comics for like .25 and no reader could turn that down. It would be like the good ol' days again.

Using marketing techniques you find here on WF you shouldn't fail with ebooks. As an example, I've got clients begging me night and day to write their ebooks. I can't. They won't pay enough. I write technical to fiction and fiction is a major creative process. That's why a major part of my IM portfolio is going to be creating ebooks both technical, fact, fiction.

Believe you me, eBooks aren't going away anywhere for as long as there's electricity.

If you can't write, hire somebody. Pay them well and don't try to go for the cheap outsourced staff. That lack of quality will show. Look for someone who has been published in the real world. Print publishing is getting kicked in the teeth but it's far from down and out.

I've got three pals who are top fiction writers. Just about everyone's heard of them or seen movies made out of their stuff. They were reticent to embrace the web and digital but when they did they ended up rolling in dough.

Ebooks are now a major part of their income to the likes they never thought would happen. The formula for us is easy since we appear on radio shows. Your ebook is done and ready, you get on the air, promote the ebook, watch money come pouring in like there's no tomorrow.

It's SICK!

That's why I'm still studying IM, listening to the IM pros, setting up studio for non-stop production.

Ebooks. Yeaaaahhhhh!

IMO the next big thing with ebooks will be using more multimedia.

Adobe Acrobat allows you to add video, audio, and flash to PDF documents. So imagine a book about the Egyptian pyramids. With a normal book you have text and images but with an interactive book you can show actual video inside a pyramid. You can have a flash presentation showing how the pyramids were built.

This is just the beginning when it comes to ebooks and with the variety of tablets coming to market this is going to be big.

Here's an example of an app fro the IPad-----> Elements

Multimedia ebooks are going to be big.

Kevin

P.S. -- If you're not using audio, video, and flash in your ebooks I encourage you to start. They add more to the user experience and allow you to charge more.

Just realized the last post, before yours, was from March.... :rolleyes:

That's probably true in some niches more than others, but...

...a rose by any other name.

Unless you are referring to the old windows .exe style ebooks. If so, yes, those are dead. When I use "ebooks" I'm referring to PDF ebooks.

I think eBooks still do well, but as someone mentioned earlier, calling them a PDF manual or a PDF guide seems a more popular term to use than an eBook nowadays.

And just adding an audio version and videos to the product is a nice easy way to add value, plus it caters for all different types of people who like to take in the information in a different way.

I personally love watching info products as videos. I just put on a nice cup of tea, sit back on the sofa and make a few notes.

Plus audio and video is a lot quicker to create than writing a PDF document so is a nice way to create a higher priced product with less effort.

While it is a great idea to give something away for free in order to promote something else later, this action should be looked at as a trust gainer instead of an email address gainer. If you give people a 15 page crap shoot, then that's the quality they expect from everything you give them. You want the quality of the "report" to at least meet the quality of the paid product.

Reciprocity in marketing does exist.

I love ebooks, I save them in my pen drive and take them everywhere I go.

There can be thousands of forms of products, but there will always be ebooks.