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I truely don't know much of anything about e-books, but from what little I know-
1. E-books can make money
2. WF members....well....since at times I am a lady.....I'll say "frown" on them.

I'm curious on the "why" of both of the above. I am especially curious because I can write excessively and would like to find a way it could bring in some income. Some have suggested an e-book could be a possibility. I just don't know enough to know!
 


I think what WF members frown upon are the so-called "gurus" that promise to teach you how to makes tons of money on the internet.

I wouldn't advise you to get into this market because, from what I have heard, it is filled with some of the most intense competition and the worst buyers.

For example:
-You are going against "great" marketers as your competition
-You are trying to sell to customers who have already been let down by these ebooks before and are still looking for that one secret.
-You are trying to sell to customers who know the industry and may do things like 1. purchase with their own affiliate link or 2. request an instant refund without your consent (if you sell via clickbank).

Anyways.... if you write an ebook on a niche topic similar to the 15kchallenge.com guy, I don't think the members of WF would frown upon it.

As for making money, you need to find a niche market that has a desire for information and has money to spend on it. Then you need to create a product that fulfills their desires/needs and properly market it to them.
 
Especially biz opportunity ebooks promise you everything (how to make lots of money), but in reality it doesn't work out that way. I think in general people who buy ebooks are newbies, not knowing yet that they were buying 'false hope'!!
 
I wrote an ebook about 2 years ago. Broke even on the advertising costs to sales. If you can write, go ahead a do it. You also want to try out eBay as one place to sell it.
 
I agree with Beau. If you actually write on a topic and subject with some value, beyond internet marketing, I don't see the problem with it. It is the get-rich-quick/make-money-on-the-internet, I am selling you common sense in a fictional book jacket, that I think most people have an exception with...

But if you can write something worthwhile on subjects unrelated to internet marketing, I think you could potentially do well.
 
I agree with the above, don't write an e-book about how to get rich online or anything like that. Write one about something useful to a niche, ie how to make dog clothes or how to make your own fishing pole or whatever. It will be a lot easier going for you.
 
One problem I see with it is the fact that writing 1 e-book nowadays seems insignificant only b/c you can buy 1000's on ebay for like 2$ or something...

Not to say that your writing isn't great or anything, i just mean it's hard to compete with the shear amounts of quantity out there.
 
I think writing successful ebook is an art form. The writing is the easiest part, but marketing the ebook in the way you'll make profit - that's the tricky part. Ebooks can be very lucrative, I know from experience, but you really have to hit the right audience and master the 0 budget marketing techniques. Unless your ebook really have some über fresh content and you can stick high price on it without making it look high priced, then you can pay for advertising.

In ebook marketing, building the list is absolutely number 1 thing to know.
 
Yes, I have always been curious about that too Jan.

A guy who is rabbidly anti-ebook on one thread will be boasting about setting up mutitudes of blog spam on another like it's somehow better.

Different strokes for different folks I guess.

And if you want to know if there is money in it, then ask are others doing it (a lot)?
 
The ebook industry is wider than those scammy "guru" books. Many regular consumers love ebooks that teach anything from how to shop online to security issues to tips on gardening. Ebooks = gold since you can put links in the html of the ebook. You sell the book and there's upsell areas inside. I know of many that even have recurring sales/"updates" sections... how cool is that?
 
It's good to know there's a good side of e-books!

I was thinking it would be a way to make information available for the developmentally disabled community (I've been in that field for 9 years). in a more extensive way than a blog or website (which I will have both of those as well). I was thinking an e-book would be more affordable for community living services and day programs to purchase and I could make a few bucks.
 
Jan,
If you write ebook, remember to make good TOC and format it correctly. One problem with ebooks is that they are almost always written by people who have no idea about typography or how to layout books. Just download ebook novel that has been "really" published and copy their style :)
 
Jan said:
It's good to know there's a good side of e-books!

I was thinking it would be a way to make information available for the developmentally disabled community (I've been in that field for 9 years). in a more extensive way than a blog or website (which I will have both of those as well). I was thinking an e-book would be more affordable for community living services and day programs to purchase and I could make a few bucks.
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That is a good niche, you could sell a shitload of those on Shitepoint.

Seriously though, I think if you stay away from the guru type of thing you'll be fine.
 
Jdog said:
Seriously though, I think if you stay away from the guru type of thing you'll be fine.
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Actually you need to establish authority image if you want to sell any books. People won't buy a book if they don't trust the author to know their stuff. So basically you need to be guru in your niche. For example, if Jon decided to publish ebook called "Arbitrage Secrets" you would trust that he knows what he's talking about, but if some random nobody published it, you would instantly think if the guy really knows anything about arbi.
 
micfire said:
Actually you need to establish authority image if you want to sell any books. People won't buy a book if they don't trust the author to know their stuff. So basically you need to be guru in your niche. For example, if Jon decided to publish ebook called "Arbitrage Secrets" you would trust that he knows what he's talking about, but if some random nobody published it, you would instantly think if the guy really knows anything about arbi.
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Good point, I was referring to trying to compete with the thousands of e-books that are all trying to tell you how you can be rich over night. More of finding your own niche that you can establish yourself as an authority in whatever it may be.
 
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