Where do you sell your ebooks?

by troy23

Posted: 14 years ago 20 replies

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Anyone have a list or know of good sites that accept paid for ebooks?

I hear some sites produce better traffic than others.

#ebooks #sell

KenJ 14 years ago

Are you selling it yourself?
Do you have your own website?

If your ebook is of value then that should be your starting point
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troy23 14 years ago

Yes I do have my own website and have a large list, some of whom have bought the book. I now want to spread this wider.
What sites do you recommend for this?
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troy23 14 years ago

Unfortunately Amazon Kindle is not available in the UK right now. I've not tried TradeBit.
My understanding was that there were a lot of ebook sites out there.
I found a few via Google, but some want a link back on the site etc.
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- LynnM 14 years ago
  
  If you want to find out more about Tradebit, look for ladyshadowrider's thread in the War Room.
  
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- Colin Palfrey 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by troy23
  
  Unfortunately Amazon Kindle is not available in the UK right now.
  
  Hi Troy23,
  
  Actually Kindle are running a beta test for the UK at the moment, so email them if they haven't put it on the site yet.
  
  You still can't buy in the UK but the beta test allows you to sell from there now.
  
  Cheers,
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  troy23 14 years ago
  
  Colin
  
  Many thanks for that.
  
  I will probably test it with a higher priced ebook though. Am concerned at Amazon taking 65% cut.
  
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troy23 14 years ago

Thanks but I'm looking for ebook sites. Surely Warriors have written paid for ebooks.
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ladyshadowrider 14 years ago

Originally Posted by LynnM

If you want to find out more about Tradebit, look for ladyshadowrider's thread in the War Room.

Lynn

Thank you for the "shout out" Lynn

Originally Posted by troy23

Thanks but I'm looking for ebook sites. Surely Warriors have written paid for ebooks.

Hi Troy,

TradeBit IS a website where you can sell ebooks.

As Lynn suggested, to find out how to sell ebooks on TradeBit, check out my thread in the War Room where I'm offering my TradeBit step-by-step guide free to War Room members.

http://www.warriorforum.com/war-room...-products.html

Don't know how much longer I will be leaving that offer up, so you'd better hurry.

Here are some other websites I've used to promote/sell ebooks:

http://www.1chapterfree.com/
http://www.scribd.com/
http://www.myebook.com/
http://www.docshare.com/
http://www.docstoc.com
http://books.google.com/
http://www.google.com/support/merchants/

HTH,
Tamara
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troy23 14 years ago

Tamara

Wow - thank you so much.

I knew Warriors must sell ebooks somewhere apart from their own sites.

I especially like the chapter free site you sent me.

I'll check out everything else including TradeBit.

Once again, many thanks for your kind input.
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jbsmith 14 years ago

Why wouldn't you still sell through Amazon Kindle - it doesn't matter that they don't distribute the device to UK yet, there are still Millions of others around the world that can buy your ebook?

Jeff
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Christophe Young 14 years ago

I was just checking out Tradebit. Seems most of the ebooks in my niche sell for only 1 to $5. Wouldn't that be bad for those who have ebooks selling for $27? I do see that some people have ebooks marked as "Free Preview" where you have to click an external download link to contact the seller. Maybe this is how most are doing it just to get their ebooks on the market place.
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Dennis Gaskill 14 years ago

Tradebit is becoming known for cheap merchandise, I'm not sure I'd want a front line product of mine on there. I'd be more inclined to try that after it fell into secondary status.

Doesn't Amazon take something like 55% of the sale? Seems like a lot, but when you consider a lot people give away 60-75% away in commissions on Clickbank, 55% might look pretty good.

If you want to spread out, have you thought about opening an affiliate program for it? Get other people promoting it for you by offering a nice commission.
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troy23 14 years ago

"Why wouldn't you still sell through Amazon Kindle - it doesn't matter that they don't distribute the device to UK yet, there are still Millions of others around the world that can buy your ebook?

Jeff "

Sure, but I don't think the service is available in the UK yet. Also they take 65% commission which for a $7 ebook may not be worth it.
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- jasonboom 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by troy23
  
  Sure, but I don't think the service is available in the UK yet. Also they take 65% commission which for a $7 ebook may not be worth it.
  
  The Kindle has been international for quite some time now.
  
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colinph970 14 years ago

Most sites will take between 20% and 75% in "fees", "commissions" or whatever other term they have dreamed up to take a cut. If its $7 and contains advertising in the form of links to your site or affiliate links then you could offer it as a free WSO......and include giveaway rights so that it can be further given away provided the content is not changed in any way. Guess it depends on your objective....there is more than one way to make money than just sales.
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- troy23 14 years ago
  
  Well I think that would only work for the IM niche. If for example your ebook is about alsation puppy training or MS Word tables I doubt there would be many takers for a WSO.
  
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- troy23 14 years ago
  
  Does anyone know if Google charges monthly to sell through them?
  
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Marketstriker 14 years ago

Lulu.com is OK. But it takes 20%, you keep 80%. PayDotCom allows to set up a shop and sell ebooks. Anyway they are not so eefective as my own site. I rather use it to check the demand, then get good income.
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duncanb 14 years ago

Kindle is good
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