Selling an ebook - clickbank vs. amazon vs. e-junkie

I'm very tempted to make it an all-in-one product with the bonuses and stuff, which I could easily sell for $30, while on amazon I would probably go for a price like 7.95 or so. This would make a huge difference in profits per unit.

By the way, I have around $750 set aside for marketing the product once it comes out.

Many other people seem to manage? It wouldn't be nearly so easy to find affiliates at Amazon, surely?

Are you possibly confusing royalties and affiliate commissions, here? Affiliate commissions are normally between 4% and 9% and depend on each affiliate's sales volume for the month, not on the product-price.

With Kindle books (are you talking just about Kindle? That's a much more limited market?) the authors' royalties are 35% or 70% depending on the price.

This isn't always true. It's just a widespread assumption that's sometimes true.

E-junkie is a product delivery system. It doesn't handle the money. You can use it in conjunction with ClickBank, or PayPal, or various other payment processors, but it isn't itself a payment processor at all.

This is true, to some extent. But don't make the mistake so many ClickBank vendors do of offering four or five different bonuses. That seriously detracts from the perceived value of the product itself and costs sales. It's something you can test for yourself, of course, but as far as I'm aware everyone who split-tests one or two bonuses against four or five finds unsurprisingly that having one or two bonuses converts better. (Five bonuses just looks "desperate", and customers think so, too :p ).

You can't meaningfully compare E-junkie with the other two as it doesn't provide the same services.

For myself, I would use ClickBank if wanting affiliates. I'd also use E-Junkie for the product delivery (so as to take advantage of their PDF stamping device which greatly inhibits illicit circulation of the product: there's not much point in "protecting the download page" without also protecting the product itself. ).

I meant royalties... 70% is when it's below $10 and anything above is 35%, which practically forces me to stay under $10.

Hmm, that stamping thing is interesting, I didn't know about that. Just when I was bout to rule out EJ.

I'm only looking at kindle when it comes to amazon. Is there another way to sell digital-only on there ?

Is there anyone here who has experience with both Amazon and one of the other services ?

Can anyone else please share their perspective ? I'm leaning more and more towards clickbank as I have a feeling that it has a much larger potential for profit. I just don't know how will I get testimonials, which are very important for a sales page.

Having tried both, I've found Amazon much easier. Prices are lower, but I've sold much, much more. And people still act as "affiliates", by promoting your book using their Amazon Associates ID. It's a win-win.

I've done well/am doing well with Clickbank in markets related to health and wellness as well as personal development. So I can vouch for CB in these respective spaces. Don't assume affiliates will flock to your ebook at first, you will get a trickle to begin with but you will have to actively recruit to get things moving in the beginning. Once you get some sales momentum, others will take note and you do get a pretty good lift if you can get to 10-15 early sales/month...this will catch the attention of affiliates that will make doubling this much easier than getting the first 10-15.

I'm more of a fan of Amazon for short ebooks that have a back-end associated - either your upsell information package/ebook, a service or membership site.

Jeff

i would recommend you to sell your ebook on those sites, it doesn't hurt you at all and it will not cost you anything, more exposure more sales!

GobBluthJD: was it the same product or different ones ?

jbsmith: That's exactly what I'm worried about - how to get things started. Most importantly I have no idea how to get the testimonials to get things rolling.

By the way I don't have anything else to sell, only affiliate products. I would like this to be my main product for a long time to come.

Clickbank or JVZoo.com. If you're looking for instant commissions via PayPal, JVZoo is good for that (and lets you give affiliates up to 100% commission). Otherwise, Clickbank is very reliable and can pay you either direct deposit or check.