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selling public domain ebooks

by arkhamindustries
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i am interested in starting to do this as an extra way of making a little side income while i get my amazon affiliate site up and running. I am curious how many of you out there are doing this? sounds like ebay used to be the ideal place to do this before the ban on selling ebooks a little while ago. is craigslist and backpage the way to do it now? maybe other auction sites? I would like to hear more from those of you that sell ebooks regularly
#domain #ebooks #public #selling
  • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
    I sell on my own website, using ClickBank as the payment processor.

    I don't sell public domain books as-is, however. I try to update them in some way, to provide added value and differentiate from all the other people that are just scanning in old books and selling them that way.
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  • Profile picture of the author RichardF
    Just selling them as-is sounds a bit shady to me to be honest. Sure, it can be argued that you're charging for the delivery or whatever, but it's still essentially charging for something that's really free.
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    • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
      Originally Posted by RichardF View Post

      Just selling them as-is sounds a bit shady to me to be honest. Sure, it can be argued that you're charging for the delivery or whatever, but it's still essentially charging for something that's really free.
      Well, somebody has to pay for the bandwidth required for delivery.

      Someone has to pay for the storage space where ever it's stored.

      Someone had to format it into a usable digital format.

      And so on.

      There's nothing shady about it at all.

      The biggest problem with selling public domain material as-is is that there are countless other people doing the same thing. So, you end up competing over price rather than value.
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  • Profile picture of the author meerkat29
    I've never tried to do that myself, but what Dan C. Rinnert says has the ring of truth to it. There are expenses that have to be paid to get the finished product to your customers, and you have to charge an amount that is competitive with others selling a similar item.
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