First, let's talk about pricing your e-book. You've worked long and hard on it and you would like to price it so that everyone benefits. Frankly, a problem that most e-book authors encounter is the pricing scale of the material. When selling your e-book, sell it at a price that you think it deserves.
Make your topic precise up to the last details so that you will know who your audiences are, making it easier for you to come up with a price that you think they can afford. The price of your e-book should not exceed the financial capabilities of your buyers.
When a person thinks that your e-book is too expensive, it will not sell well. When doing your pricing research, always have your buyer's financial capabilities in mind.
Always keep in mind that the number of pages in your e-book does not affect your pricing quotes. I've always believed that the quantity of words does not make an e-book better or more reliable. It is the whole content that matters.
So no matter what size your e-book is, if you think that it has something good to offer, and then mark it with a good price that you think you, and your buyers, can mutually profit from.
Now, let's put a security fence around your intellectual property.
We may say that the majority of people who uses the Internet are honest, but you must accept the fact that some people will try their best to steal your products.
For this particular reason, it is important that you take some measures to ensure that your product is not being illegally copied or distributed.
Copyright logos are not enough to keep your e-books secured; even signatures can easily be altered and erased.
So what is the best way to make my e-book secure? Simply have it registered; a registered copyright can get legal action if those e-books are ever stolen. If you haven't formally registered the work, then legally seeking compensation can be much more difficult.
If you are hesitant about paying fees or financially lack the ability to register your copyrighted e-books, then there are other ways to put a mark on your e-book materials.
One-way is to include your copyright statement at the bottom of every page of your book, your website and every document that you write that has something to do with your e-book.
Including a copyright statement is no guarantee that your work will not be stolen. It's also no assurance that you'll be able to recover royalties or loss of earnings from someone who infringes on your copyright.
But the good thing about having copyright statements on your e-book is that it marks your documents with legal assurances that whatever happens or wherever your documents go, it will be known that it was made by you.
It is also a good idea to designate an early page in your e-book for the sole purpose of displaying your copyright terms and statement.
Another good thing to do is to make a copy of your e-book in three forms: printed; on a diskette; on a CD-ROM. Put these three materials inside an envelope and have it mailed bearing your name as the recipient, via registered mail.
Then keep the receipt for the mail and when the package arrives at your home, put it in a safe place with the receipt without opening it. This is proof that you had the document in your possession on the date stated on the mail receipt.
If you have done this strategy before your e-book has gone live, then nobody should have a copy of your work before that day.
Here are some other pointers on how to boost the sales of your e-books and make really good money.
Allow other publishers to have an excerpt of your e-book on their sites, allowing you more exposure. You can also make extra profits by making and selling monthly updates of your e-book.
You can also charge people a cheap price to read half of your e-book, and if they like it, you can just charge them the rest of the amount for the whole e-book. When doing this, make sure to have some of those important catchy sentences cut off and have a quote in they're saying, "continued in the full version."
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but still no one buys or downloads your e-book/s.
Let me ask you this, "Did you send them a
follow-up message?" You do know that most
people need see your offer at least 3-5 times
before they will make a decision. Don't you?
Well now that you know, you will need an
autoresponder that can automatically
follow-up for you. This way you only need to
set it up once then let it do the work for you.
I found a company that will not only give you
free follow-up auto responders; they will also
pay you to help them give them away.
Here are some of the features they offer:
*Instant, reliable delivery
(in only 10 to 30 seconds!)
*Unlimited, reliable follow ups
(up to 5, even 10 times!)
*Unlimited message length
*Unlimited message changes
*Control Panel Interface is easy and simple
*Powerful personalization features
*Database of your prospects' e-mail addresses
*Powerful mailing list management features
*AOL and WebTV friendly 1) Sell Advertisements
Make money selling advertising space in your e-book. You could charge for full page color ads, classified ads or banners ads. You could also trade advertising space in your e-book for other forms of advertising. For example, you could say, "Promote Your Business in Our Free E-book for only ($). It's been down- loaded over 5000 times!"
2) Sell Rights
Make money by selling the reprint rights to those who would like to sell the e-book. You could also make even more money by selling the master reprint rights. This would allow other people to sell the reprint rights. You could also include your ads in the e-books. Every time someone reads it or sells one, you'll get exposure.
3) Sell Products
Allow other people to give away your free e-book. This will increase the number of people who will see your ad in the e-book. You could also include a mini catalog of all your products or services that you offer in the e-book. You could include your own products or associate program's products in the e-book.
Let's see your prospects' request your information
via e-mail and they get it in a matter of seconds.
Then their names and e-mail addresses will be added
to your database and then the system schedules delivery
of the next follow up messages (at a time you decide on for
the next follow-up message to go out) all automatically.
This is a completely FREE service and very easy to set up.
After you're done setting it up, your e-book marketing
machine will be working for you 24-7. Still think
e-book publishers don't need auto responders?
For the name of the company that offer this service
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