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Selling eBooks online - Any tips?

Mario Martin · 2010-10-26T23:07:58+00:00

Hello everyone, here's my story, I've been selling on ebay for the last 3 years with mixed success, but for the last 3 months I've started selling ebooks and sending them by email with great success, but last week ebay decided to cancel all my listings and blocked me from ebay for 1 month, I didn't know that we can't sell ebooks anymore, anyway I was just wondering what I should do, I've been selling now at lulu.com but nothing is selling, I opened up my store but nothing, I don't know if I should opened my own website, anyone here that as been selling ebooks or have there own website, any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks here's my store. Link hidden: Login to view

richelle_salehoo1

Hi Million-ells,

If you haven't I would suggest reading through our eBay selling portion of our education tab. You'll find a lot of very useful and informative guides in there on eBay selling like -

* How to find out what sells well on eBay

* How to optimize your eBay tools

* Beginners/intermediate and advance seller guides

* Sourcing and traffic generation tips

Here's the link - Link hidden: Login to view

Hope this helps :)

million-ells

Ok i think ima go the ebook way for awhile, i see on somebody ebay whos selling ebay ebooks says comes with rights full resell rights, what is exactly does that mean??

richelle_salehoo1

Hi again Million-ells,

That means that you can re-sell the eBook to your customers - reselling rights is like a license stating you can distribute a particular product, in this case an eBook.

Hope this helps :)

million-ells

Man i swear you the best help i have ever came across!! i thank you greatly!!!!!!! so if i buy one that has selling rights i can sell them back to who ever else i want to. and do you know if i simply can just make a copy and send it to them on cd rom.. and is this against ebay rules in any form

richelle_salehoo1

You're welcome Million-ells,

It's your call, if you want to burn it on a disc then you can. But from what I can recall most sellers will just send the ebook (as a file online) or will send a download code for the customer to download his copy of the ebook.

Personally, I think burning it on a disc would just be additional expense for you and may make your price less competitive.

Hope this helps :)

million-ells

but i heard if you actually selling on ebay you have to ship somthing...

speedy43ca

Maybe I can help you with this, I have been selling ebooks on ebay for the last 3 years, you can still sell digital download as long has you list in your listing that you can ship it by Postal Mail on a cd if they want, make sure to do this or you will be banned from ebay for 1 month, I know what I'm talking about LOL, but I can tell you that people want digital download not by Postal Mail, it's the best way to go, no cd to buy and no shipping charges, on a another subject, I just opened up a website selling ebooks, It's almost ready, I will be posting the link in the next few day.

million-ells

so where can i buy these ebooks from

speedy43ca

Mostly you can find them on the internet for free, just type free ebooks in google, another place is the website tradebit.com, they sell digital downloads for very cheap prices, also you can check my ebay listings, Im selling right now 10,000 ebooks + software & web templates, starting bid is $0.75, its a great package, check it out.

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speedy43ca

I finally finished my website, it's up and running, 6 in the morning, I'm so tired, but very happy, it's my first website, I will be selling mostly ebooks, webpage templates and software, all ebooks are $0.99 I will be adding new ebooks everyday, take a look and tell me what you think, thanks.

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richelle_salehoo1

Congratulations speedy43ca!

The site nice looks good, but I have one suggestion though - Maybe you can make your ebook suggestion window slide instead of the jumping/poping out motion. Having the ebooks slide in and out would definitely look smoother and will be easier on the eye :)

All the best!

irene_salehoo

Congratulations on your new site, speedy43ca :)

I tried buying one but the checkout keeps saying "Paypal does not allow your country of residence to ship to the country you wish to". I have set my country as USA, and then as Canada, and then as Australia, but it keeps giving the same message. Just to let you know so you won't miss your sales.

Cheers! :)

speedy43ca

Yes I just saw this, thank you very much, I will fix this right away

speedy43ca

It's weird, I received a email, it say's order is pending, I checked everything and everything is find, maybe I missing something, can you tell from what country your from, I registered with another email and bought something and everything worked fine.

irene_salehoo

Yeah, I think it's queer. I am from the Philippines, I shop from US sites using my Paypal, have the items sent to our Oregon address, pick them up once a year, and things go through without fail. :) I also set the address in your website as USA, besides I don't think location would matter since it's an ebook for digital delivery, right? Let me know if it's the end of my shopping days (lol). :)

Thanks!

speedy43ca

Hello Irene, I am still looking into the problem, can't find what's wrong, except for one thing, my PayPal account for my website was not verified yet, I hooked up my bank account today, it will be verified in 3 to 5 days, I thought if I put my visa it would be okay, but it still say's not verified, so maybe I think that could be the problem, I will let you know when my PayPal account as been verified, sorry for the problem.

irene_salehoo

No worries speedy43ca! :) I just checked on your site to help see if everything works out fine. Hope you sort things out soon. :)

speedy43ca

Hi Irene, I think the problem as been fixed, well I hope lol, anyway here's the link for 1 of the ebook you tried to download before, I put the ebook on special at $0.01 for you, so you can try again to see if everything works, thanks again and have a nice day, Mario.

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tranzorx

Thaks for the link.

I didn't know this ebook store.

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speedy43ca

Hello everyone, I changed a few things on my website, can you please tell me what you think, thanks Mario.

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