How to Sell Ebooks Without Being an Author
Ebooks - electronic books - are attractive products to sell on the Internet. They can be delivered digitally, eliminating any cost involved in printing, packaging and shipping. They can be downloaded instantly, avoiding customer service complaints and dis-satisfaction.
Creating ebooks to sell can involve some time and effort. You will need to research a market, evaluate what people in it want, then create an ebook that solves their problems. There are ways to bypass this process by finding ebooks to sell.
How to find ebooks to sell? You need to know where to look. Here are a few suggestions.
Resale Rights
One place to find ebooks to sell are in membership services that offer resale rights products, or product sales that include resale rights.
Some people sell the rights to their ebooks because they want a quick cash injection into their infopreneur business, leaving them free to move to another project. Others have built in backend product promotions in their ebooks, and offering resale rights gives them wider exposure through the efforts of other people’s marketing.
Such products and memberships are your answer if you are looking to find ebooks to sell.
Private Label Rights
A more elaborate variation on the resale rights theme is the private label rights that allow you to take a nearly-complete ebook, and place your name and branding on the content. In other words, it is as if they wrote the ebook for you!
You are now allowed to sell the ebook, and keep all profits. This is another avenue to find ebooks to sell starting right away.
Affiliate Programs
Some affiliate programs include ready made ebooks as part of their promotional tools. The links within the ebook have links to the product, which can be branded by affiliates and distributed. Whenever a buyer clicks on a link within the ebook, the affiliate is credited for the sale and earns a commission.
If generating ongoing profit for a one-time effort is your goal, you should consider this option while searching to find ebooks to sell.
Free Articles
Some directories do not permit it, but if it is allowed, you could collect a set of free articles on a topic, and compile them into a short ebook. By doing it across a series of articles, you can find ebooks to sell as a package or bundle, adding even more value to buyers.
Licensing
Ebook owners often license their work for others to use. Even if they do not advertise this fact, you might try contacting authors of the ebooks you are interested in using to negotiate a deal. Using this approach, you can find ebooks to sell or even giveaway, without having to write any yourself!
Blogs
A creative way to find ebooks to sell may be to convert content on a blog into an ebook. Some services are now available to do this for you automatically. Remember to always ask for permission from the blog owner before you do this!
Transcripts
One more way to find ebooks to sell is to get transcripts made of interviews, presentations or audio recordings. Again, ask the creator/owner of the content for permission before doing this.
By being creative, curious and proactive, you can easily find ebooks to sell - without writing a word of content yourself. And such attitudes are a part of being a good infopreneur!
Selling products online has become very lucrative for many netpreneurs. Ebooks and special reports are amongst the most popular type of downloadable products. These files in written form, can be very useful when they convey desireable information.
Indeed, information is what fuels the internet. People log online to search for information. If you have the information they need, they will come to you. If this information holds a lot of value, you could sell the same and make a good profit. Since words are still the primary tools of communication on the web, information is often conveyed in written form.
Preparing written works is not easy. For starters, not everyone can write well. Those who can may not take the time to embark on such an undertaking.
Fortunately, there are some alternative routes you can take which will allow you to prepare your own eBook or special report without having to write down a single word. Let’s take a look at 5 of these options.
Gather some articles and compile them in a single volume. This would be the easiest way to prepare your own digital product. These articles can be PLR works which grant you the right to alter them and use the content anyway you please. They may be articles written by other people, which you have compiled from renowned websites like ezinearticles.com or goarticles.com. If you choose the latter, just make sure that you respect the terms and conditions of their usage, primary of which is the inclusion of the original author’s resource box. Make sure that each article organically and logically flows to the next. You can ensure this by studying the articles you want to include.
Conduct an interview with an expert and record the same. Thereafter, hire someone from rentacoder.com, elance.com or guru.com to transcribe the conversation you had with the said expert. You’d be surprised how quickly you can compile 50 to 200 pages worth of essential reading material using this method.
Buy an existing eBook or special report that comes with private label rights. This would enable you to alter the contents of the same, and even name yourself as the author of the work. You could add some materials as you feel are necessary, or better yet, you could combine two, three, or even ten of these PLR eBooks or special reports to come up with an encyclopedic tome of information worthy of some notice.
Hire a ghostwriter to prepare an eBook or a special report for you. There are many freelance writers looking for work at the websites we mentioned above. It’s just a matter of selecting the best writer for the job at a price that will not be too daunting to your budget. Expect to pay $200 to $1,000 for a 50 page eBook.
Here’s a novel approach. Join an internet marketing forum, and ask a question. A good example would be “How Could You Profit From The Internet With A $0 Budget.” For certain, you’ll get some amazingly enlightening replies. Compile these replies until you’ll have enough materials to come up with an eBook or a special report. Ask the posters’ permission to avoid any copyright issues. Chances are, they’ll agree, provided that a link to their respective websites are included in your work.
Lack of writing prowess, or the time to write, is never a bar for the production of your own digital products. All you need is a little imagination, and hopefully, the suggestions above have stirred up some concepts in your mind.
