How to Sell Ebook Online?

Whether you are an aspiring writer who wants to get his work out as to be noticed or you just want to share some kind of information on the web, EBooks are always a convenient and modern way to do it. If you do not know how, this article aims to aid you in selling books online with a five simple steps.

1. Firstly, you need to categorize your EBook and figure out to what audience it would most probably sell. Write on topics that seems the most interesting to you – where you can share your knowledge. If you don’t know much about a certain subject – that’s also not a problem. Internet has a lot of freely available information on any topic you want spread out in many places. You can collect all that information into one place – compile it into an ebook, create a pdf file and you will have a great info source to sell.

2. Secondly, when you have an e-book, you need to create a special website – sales page for it to sell. Usually it’s a sales pitch letter written. If you don’t know how to write a great sales letter or design a good looking ebook’s website, just go to any of freelancers website, hire a web designer and sales page writer. You will have to invest some money here, but trust me – you will get a great looking website and a sales letter that will sell your ebook. Make sure you give clear and thorough information about the product – if you confuse the buyers you might have problems with them later on, so double-check your facts as to avoid inconveniences.

3. Thirdly, you need to find a selling platform that would allow you to sell your digital product – ebook or any other digital product. There are online marketplaces that allow you to add your product, set the price for you eBook. Such systems take care of your product’s delivery to the end customers. You might find this hard to price your ebook especially if you want your material to sell well. Be careful not to under- or overprice it. A good way of resolving this problem is conducting a survey inquiring other people’s opinion or you can examine your competitors’ prices and draw your own conclusions. Once you have uploaded your ebook and set it’s price – all you have to do is to configure a payment processing account for it.

4. Another important thing is preparing a convenient payment method. You need to find a suitable e-commerce platform that would not only help you deliver your ebook to the customer, but at the same time allow to accept credit card and Paypal payments from your customers. Such systems help you sell online – you are able to accept credit card payments from your customers. Then they pay out all your money to your bank account. There are several such sites – you just need to take an interest and you will definitely find one that suits your needs.

5. So you have find a good selling platform for your ebook, you are able to accept payments and have a great website. All you have to do is just to place a simple payment button on your website that is provided by your selling platform. Finally, before promoting or selling your EBook you must always remember to test if everything is how you want it to be. After doing that – you will be ready to go.

Once you have everything set up and ready, just start advertising your website online – write articles recommending your product, post to the forums and start advertising your ebook online. Soon you will start seeing not only interested visitors to your website, but you will start selling your product.

To sum up, with the help of contemporary technology you can easily accomplish virtually anything – selling EBooks online is not an exception.