How to Make Money Selling Ebooks

If you are looking for ways to make money online or to expand your existing home business, selling ebooks could be just what you need. Selling ebooks is easy, affordable and there are practically no expenses (other than purchasing the ebooks). You might want to write some of the ebooks yourself to save money and to helpspread the word about you and your business!

You can either purchase ebooks with or without resell rights. I would recommend buying ebooks with resellrights so your customers have an additional reason topurchase from you. They can then sell the ebooks themselves!

There are several ways you can set up your new ebookselling site or ebook store.

Sell on Ebay

You can auction off your ebooks on eBay. eBay has veryspecific policies on selling ebooks so be SURE to read and follow all their policies.

Offer Ebooks on Your Site

If you already have a site, you can easily offer the ebookson your existing site. Make a folder called ebooks (or whatever you like) and upload it to your host. Upload all your ebooks into this folder. Give them keyed namesso people will not be able to guess the file name.

For example: if you have an ebook called Ezine Publishingand you call the file ezinepublishing.zip, this could make itvery easy for someone to "guess" the download link by the nameand download the ebook for free.

You want to code the names- for example:

instead of ezine publishing, you might name the fileez-pub-32c.zip These coded names are nearly impossiblefor people to guess so they are unable to steal the ebook.

Then add an index page where you would introduce yourebook store to your visitors. Let them know there will be noshipping cost as they are delivered electronically. Make sure you introduce your ebook store on your site homepageas well.

You might also want to list the categories on the indexpage so your customers can click directly to the ebooksthey are interested in. Have a short description of the ebook and a graphic (if possible). You can have awhole page for each ebook or you can put several on a page.

Go to Paypal and make up a button to put on your sitefor ordering. If you do not like Paypal, use any paymentservice you want.

**TIP - To avoid the time of making up each individual button, use the code from the first button and just change the necessary info like price, item name and code. This will save you a lot of time in setting up your ebook store.

Automatic Digital Delivery

You can purchase a program for setting up your store and having all purchases automatically delivered. This saves you a lot of time plus gives your customers the itemsimmediately which helps with repeat sales.

One such program that does this very well is called TheDigital Store. Do a search for this or automatic digitaldelivery ebooks and you will find a wide variety of scripts/programs to suit your needs.

Be sure to continually add new ebooks for your existingcustomers. We have had numerous repeat sales by doingthis. Also, you might want to have a mailing list to keeppeople up to date of your new additions and any specialsor sales you may be having.

Affiliate Programs

You can also sell other people's ebooks by joining theiraffiliate program. This means that for every ebook you sell,you will get a commission from the ebook owner. If you writeyour own ebook, you could also start your own affiliateprogram. To find such programs just do a search for ebookaffiliate programs.

If you do purchase and/or write your own ebooks for resale,be sure and choose/write the ebooks with a lot of useful,helpful information and resources. There are a lot of ebooksthat are simply full of ads and sales letters for the writer'sproducts. You want to steer clear of these types of ebooks.

People love to buy and read good ebooks and if you offer a good selection and price, they will continue to buy from you.