Which format do I deliver PLR in?

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I've seen WSOs and other PLR products sold where people complained that they couldn't open Open Office's .odt format so I recommend saving in a format that is more universal.

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Anthony Lex

15 years ago

You should always deliver your PLR in the simplest format as a text file. This gives the end user the option to make amendments where necessary as the best way to use PLR is the ability to rewrite it into something unique that is of benefit to search engines and the actual reader.

Additionally you could supply the PLR in word and open office format if required, but always deliver your PLR in text format. This will ensure that the buyer has no issues with formatting the PLR as they see fit.

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Alan Petersen 15 years ago

Good advice from Ftiz, stick with the more widely used file formats. I buy a lot of PLR and I use Open Office and Google Docs on a Mac. I don't have Word but it's no problem opening word docs with both Open Office and Google Docs. I also like the text files so I would suggest providing both .doc and .txt.
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kate clough

15 years ago

WOW! Thanks everyone!

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GetFeeDomainName

15 years ago

how about using OpenOffice's 'Export to PDF' feature? that's what Portable Document Format is for. unless you want the content to be easily editable.

also, people,,, use LibreOffice.

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Kurt

15 years ago

I did a poll on the WF quite a while back and the over-whelming choice was HTML. Not sure if html still is the prefered format, but it should be offered as a choice when doing a poll like this.

From my point of view, it's easier to stip out a few HTML tags from a file, than it is to add them to a text file.

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imback

15 years ago

HTML .doc and .rtf

CHAD

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Kellie Dixon

15 years ago

Consider offering your content in multiple formats just to make sure that your customers are able to open them. I'd recommend starting with .doc and .txt as it's most widely used (and can be opened on both PC and Macs).

Just make sure that when you save from a program like Word as plain text that your content doesn't look jumbled. Sometimes exporting content from one format to another will eliminate spacing, so make sure to preview it in all of the different formats before you distribute.

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Tom Ryan 15 years ago

I'd offer it in several different formats: txt, doc, odt

It doesn't take much time to do, and it will cut down on any support issues. Plus it gives your customers more choices.
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- Tina Golden 15 years ago
  
  Definitely offer multiple formats. It's way easy to do (at least for .doc and .txt) and it's a great way to keep customers happy.
  
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George Sepich

15 years ago

I am sure you could outsource changing the documents to whatever format you wanted for only a few bucks if you can not do it yourself.

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cashcow

15 years ago

I do doc and txt - super easy to do and people seem to like it!

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Reed7

15 years ago

I found Open Office is very straight forward and friendly to use. Its available, at no charge . Very stable program, over a long period of time now which I like, "no surprises", just works ...-My favorite...

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Danny Turner

15 years ago

Yes - multiple formats may be good - but make sure one of them is plain text - why? all other formats will add some of their own formating which may cause problems uploading them to the web - plain text is the only reliable format

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Sheryl Polomka

15 years ago

I started out supplying just .doc but I had some people ask for copies in .txt so now I give both .doc and .txt that seems to be working well

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dogmachris

15 years ago

Both, PDF & DOC is best.

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Alan Petersen 15 years ago

Originally Posted by dogmachris

Both, PDF & DOC is best.

PDF? Do you edit the PDF file directly? PLR material needs to be in an easy to edit file format. What do you use to edit the PDF document? Just curious.
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- fitz10 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Alan Petersen
  
  PDF? Do you edit the PDF file directly? PLR material needs to be in an easy to edit file format. What do you use to edit the PDF document? Just curious.
  
  I've definitely gotten PLR with a .pdf and .doc included. I like getting the PDF format for ebook length PLR because I personally find it easier to read than a regular word processing document.
  
  Some people don't change their PLR so it's easy for them to just take the .pdf version and sell it. I don't recommend that tactic, but people do it.
  
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kindsvater

15 years ago

One issue that hasn't been mentioned is the length of the product. It is apparently assumed these are short articles.

It is also being assumed that "PLR" means full editing rights. Although that is what PLR has come to mean on places like the forum, that is not the traditional definition and not necessarily used outside of IM.

For example, I once sold a 400 page PLR book - with the "Private Label Rights" being the right to add their name to the front page and nothing else. Buyers received their PLR version from me in pdf format.

Once you have an understanding of what rights you are transferring, the length of the product(s) and their intended use by buyers, then the format for delivery should quickly become clear.

For short articles, I'd suggest text and/or html since the intended use is probably for article submissions or on a website.

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Alan Petersen

15 years ago

Originally Posted by kindsvater

One issue that hasn't been mentioned is the length of the product. It is apparently assumed these are short articles.

It is also being assumed that "PLR" means full editing rights. Although that is what PLR has come to mean on places like the forum, that is not the traditional definition and not necessarily used outside of IM.

For example, I once sold a 400 page PLR book - with the "Private Label Rights" being the right to add their name to the front page and nothing else. Buyers received their PLR version from me in pdf format.

Once you have an understanding of what rights you are transferring, the length of the product(s) and their intended use by buyers, then the format for delivery should quickly become clear.

For short articles, I'd suggest text and/or html since the intended use is probably for article submissions or on a website.

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True that. What you described with your book, I consider to have Resell Rights not PLR. But that brings a good point for the OP... always include a document with your license indicating exactly what you can and can't do with the PLR since folks have different interpretations of PLR.

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Heidi White

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Alan Petersen

True that. What you described with your book, I consider to have Resell Rights not PLR. But that brings a good point for the OP... always include a document with your license indicating exactly what you can and can't do with the PLR since folks have different interpretations of PLR.

When you say 'document' do you mean a separate readme.txt file . . . and not something inside the actual pdf like:

[YES] you may ....
[NO] you may not?

Heidi

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Alan Petersen

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Heidi White

When you say 'document' do you mean a separate readme.txt file . . . and not something inside the actual pdf like:

[YES] you may ....
[NO] you may not?

Heidi

Yeppers, that's what I meant. IMO, it should also be clearly visible on the sales page as well before folks buy it.

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