Written on July 24th, 2009 by no shouts
Can You Add eBook Sales to Your Business?
While the tastes of customers change every other minute, one thing remains the same – their desire for new information. Everyone wants to learn how to do something better, something different, or something new with or in their lives. And while you might feel like your products or services can fulfill this thirst, sometimes the written word just somehow seems more impressive. This is the main reason why eBooks are becoming such a valuable tool for online sellers and their customers. Here’s how you can tap into this new avenue of revenue while connecting with the needs of your site visitors.
Starting with a Taste of the Information
One thing that can drive new site visitors to your website is a free eBook. By offing a relevant eBook as a freebie with a purchase or just because they stopped by, you can entice them to find out more about what you have to offer. The trick is that your information needs to be relevant to their needs (i.e. if you’re selling camping goods, the book could be on rv camping tips) and it needs to be good information that they can actually utilize. When you simply give someone something that’s basically worthless, why should they come back to your site? This free taste of your eBook selections doesn’t have to be more than five pages in order to get people interested.
How to Create the eBook Section for Your Site
The first thing you need to do is create some eBooks that are relevant to your website offerings. Try to brainstorm on about five topics at first and then begin writing. If you’re not confident in your writing skills, you can always turn to freelance writers to help you with this task. Just be sure that you are clear as to what you want the books to look like and that they are not plagiarized from other works found on the internet. There are plenty of plagiarism check sites you can use to check the work you receive from a writer.
The book should have a clear table of contents and intention. It should also be well-researched and well-written in order to show the reader that you are knowledgeable about the content. If you use a freelance writer, you might want to hire them as ghostwriters so that you can put your name on the book to further validate your website.
Include these eBooks as links on your website just as you would with your traditional products. But instead of having these delivered to your customers, the customers should be directed to a download page once their payment is accepted. From there, the customer can download the book and then print it or save it to their hard drive for their personal use.
Advantages of eBook Selling
The good news about eBook sales is that it doesn’t really take a lot to get this service started, but it can reap a lot of revenue. The initial writing of the books can take some investment if you’re not writing them yourself, but once you have them up on your site, there’s little you need to do. The entire process is self-serve for your customers. And since you can sell hundreds of these books without having to pay shipping and printing costs, it’s a high profit margin item.
If you simply want to dip your toes in the waters of eBook sales, there’s never been a better time. By offering your customers free eBooks as well as books that are for sale, you will be giving them another valuable resource for their lives. Try switching up the books that are available every month to keep people coming back for more.
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Written on July 24th, 2009 by no shouts
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Written on July 24th, 2009 by no shouts
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Written on July 17th, 2009 by no shouts
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Written on July 10th, 2009 by no shouts
Internet Authors are protest writers
Traditional Publishers take ages to notice a trend. In the 1980s it was so-called ‘Magical Realism’ that had to be around for a while before the people who put the books out noticed what it was. In the 1990s it was the worrying wave of ‘Tragic Childhoods’ books – a series of stories that the public have been snapping up in Britain. After the sales went into the millions, it finally dawned on publishers that they had a new trend on their hands and they started looking for authors to meet the demand. In English bookshops there is now usually a whole section devoted to this area, right next to Crime Fiction, Romance, SF and horror, and so on.
In the noughties, the new trend comprises a group of so-called ‘Protest Novelists’. Also called ‘Challenging Writers’ in the US – because these authors tend to challenge the Status Quo in many areas, such as economics, politics and society – these creators have come up with a series of novels that question everything. In the age of George Bush, they are, perhaps, reacting to the lacklustre but massive conservatism of the American establishment, and are looking outwards to examples of other ways of doing things. In the first Superman film in the 1980s, the Man of Steel was happy to endorse ‘Truth, Justice and the American Way’. Challenging Writers are happy with the first two eternal verities, but are starting to ask whether the third always leads to the other two. That’s one question, but there’s plenty more. In the new era, niche publications such as Orlando vacations can find their followers easily.
It may not be a coincidence that the emergence of this New Wave of novelists coincides with a renewed interest in the film arena with the world of the 1960s. A recent film has been looking at the early career of Bob Dylan, illuminating his break with Protest Songs and his move into the electric field of pop music. It happened, and the experience is a deeply moving memory for many older people. Strangely, the audiences at that movie are of all ages. It’s not just the Hippies of the Flower Era that ache for some sort of critical examination of today’s political standards, it seems. The new generations too are keen to work with books and films and songs that don’t just tell stories, but ask ‘why’ such things are happening.
Traditional Publishers can’t cope. For many years now, any submission that smacked of ‘politics’ has been thought of as suspect. The people who occupy the high-rise offices of the large publishing firms are themselves part of the ‘Establishment’. Why would they want writers asking them what they are doing? Many Protest Novelists are finding a less than warm reception in these plush suites and are having to look elsewhere for exposure. No wonder that many are turning to the world of Internet Publishing. Any author with a story to tell can log themselves on to a print-on-demand site like Lulu and get their books ‘into print’ within days. Then, armed with a few copies, the Challenging Writers can hawk their samples around friends and relatives and find out whether their ideas are striking a chord. Of course they are. The world we live in is changing, and not necessarily for the better. Readers, like writers, have questions, and are happy to have their brain cells exercised by writing that isn’t simply mass entertainment and suffocating adventurist nonsense.
Who knows how many years it will take for Traditional Publishers to notice this new trend. Then, when the light starts to go on in their heads, the focus of their attention will no doubt be – as it always is – sales, and not content. If the new school of Protest Novelists starts to make a big impression on the reading public and sees their circulation grow into the thousands, then publishers will do what they have always done – wade in with their chequebooks at the ready. They will sign up the star names of the movement, and maybe even claim to have ‘discovered’ the new genre. Sound familiar? It’s what the record companies did in the 1960s, to people more or less like Bob Dylan, and if you’ve seen the new film, you’ll know exactly what I mean. For the reader now, as it was for the listener back then, the choice is much more simple. Does the work on offer mean anything to me? If so, then the new novels will find a welcoming audience, who will grow with time, happy to join in the debates that this sort of book is trying to inspire.
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Mike Scantlebury is an Internet Author, with many novels to his credit. If you examine the contents you’ll see that many of his stories could be called ‘Protest’, from his early attempt to question Manchester’s bid for the Olympic Games to his latest offering on the question of mercury in teeth fillings.
Check out the range of books from this English author. Try www.mikescantlebury.com
Written on July 2nd, 2009 by no shouts
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Written on July 2nd, 2009 by no shouts
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