Are ebooks dead?

I give away a dog food cookbook (in ebook form) to build my list, and average 48% opt in from targeted traffic... keep in mind that what matters is your offer and your landing page. If your offer is terrible, does it matter what form it comes in? a bad ebook would still be a bad video, etc. Hope that helps! (short answer, ebooks still work)

Suppose you create some unique content, that solve a major problem; let's say in 'intenet marketing" niche
so you created content that explain how to get content automatically on any website, ofr any niche.

so a lot of webmasters will be interrested by this information and will be willing to pay you for this information, whatever the way you format it.

the media you use to deliver the information is not that much important, it's the information inside that has the value.

eBooks still work, but you need to provide real value to the prospect.

It's no good just chucking together some PLR articles, and throwing it at people, then expecting them to buy from you straight away.

Build a good relationship with clients, and you're golden!

Ebooks are awesome

And are by no means DEAD

I just hope bad ebooks are dead. I must agree with Buzzin, some stuff that is given for free just to make a list is a real joke.

Kindle. Ipad.. a bunch of other ebook readers that big corps are throwing money into developing and marketing.

The ebook industry hasn't come close to it's peek yet.

You said it!

Value! All important ,doesn't matter if it is a short e-book if it offers something people are looking for it gives value and by definition is a success.

You kidding me! Ebooks still sell big time on informative sites

It's all about the value not the format you deliver it. If you are truly helping people with really useful information they would exchange that for their info. In the end the more value you provide in any way the more people would appreciate what you have to offer and respond more.

Hey man,

I'm assuming you watched the Guru Blueprint by Eben Pagan? Well, in my opinion, eBooks are not dead. They definitely are not. It's just that they aren't as alive as they used to be in early 2000s

Back then, charging $77 for an eBook was pretty normal. But try that today, and it wouldn't work very well. YOu need to complement your eBook with additional stuff like videos, audios, checklists etc to really complete your product.

Besides, that will justify you charging more, considering people have no control over "Expensive(or pricier)=better".

You still can use eBooks to build your list. But videos/audios/software would be a much more attractive choice to go with.

Regards,
Lazy Bryan

90% of people don't read any books whether ebooks or print. 99% of people watch television.

Not dead but not as influencial as it was back 2-3 yrs. Video is killin ebooks.

As IM gets more popular, there will always be new methods learned with new people learning them.

Once mastered, most will put there own twist on things to make a particular method work exponentially.

Then they will want to briefly tell everyone about it. Here's where there ebook, or free offer comes in.

So no, ebooks will never die. As long as the information given is valuable.

I think we have about another year left on ebook sales and then we're gonna have to find something else..

Video kills the radio stars, video kills the radio stars... (early 80's??)

Boy, now you even listen to RADIO in the internet... if it has good music

Cheers

Jorge

Ebooks are dead?

Hardly.

Ebooks will soon be dead?

Hardly.

And no, not everyone prefers video either. Different people learn better, or simply prefer, information in one format over another. That isn't going to make the any of them go away, but it does mean you might want to offer your information in multiple formats to cater to as many people as possible.

Ebooks are not dead. They are cheaper than normal books and you do not have to carry them around. They are convenient.

I am not sure about you or anyone else here, if I have a problem and someone offers to solve it for me, then I will take it in any form it comes in. That is essentially what an ebook does, takes an existing problems and shows you how to solve it.

i prefer video and audio but the information is the most important

Ebook is still out there! You just need to get to people the right stuff. Just as long as you have informative content then you'll still be out in the market.

Keep in mind that there's a world of difference between an e-book as the term is commonly used in the "offline" world and the Internet Marketing e-book.

An IM e-book is, more often than not, a PDFed hodge-podge of rehashed ideas thrown together by an amateur marketer, replete with grammar and punctuation errors and prefaced by promises of earning $5,321.35 in 12 hours.

Of course, there are exceptions, but for every professional-looking e-book released by a competent marketer, there are literally thousands of triple-spaced, wide-margin, 14pt Verdana 20-page PDFs.

In contrast, a proper e-book is, say, what you get at the iBooks store, or with Kindle - professionally written, reviewed, edited, and spellchecked.

Are the latter dead? Of course not - the iPad and Kindle are driving their resurgence. But using them as an indicator of demand for e-books in general is a bit like using the demand for Bugattis to estimate demand for Volkswagen Golfs - sure, they're both cars, and they're even made by the same manufacturer, but the similarity stops there.