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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 help spread the word about you and your business!

People love to buy ebooks, (if fairly priced) and as I mentioned before, there is not much cost involved in selling ebooks. The ebook itself, which can be sold over and over, the website for your ebooks (which you probably already have) and possibly a digital store script for automatic delivery of the ebooks. We will talk about this more Later.

There are ebooks on home decorating, pet care, making drinks, ecookbooks, sewing, painting, drawing, wood cradfts, golf, business, etc., the list goes on and on. One type of ebook you do not want is the sales page/giant ad type ebook which is basically the author trying to sell you their product in the form of an ebook. Choose ebooks that actually contain helpful and useful information and fit nicely with your site.

There are people out there who charge $37, $49, even $97 for their ebook! In my opinion, this is absolutely ridiculous! There are ebooks on the net that are fairly priced and some that are great deals. So beware of the giant ad disguised as an ebook and the ridiculously overpriced ebooks!

When you are looking for ebooks, you want to buy ebooks with helpful and useful information. Try to stay away form the hype and the ebooks that are nothing more than giant ads for the author's products/services. If the site where you are buying the ebook does not give a good description of what is actually in the ebook, email the owner and ask them for a better description. If they do not respond or refuse to comply, go elsewhere for your ebooks. You will want to buy from a site that will be there if you have questions or problems.

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

Once you purchase the ebooks, you will either be redirected to a page for downloading or you will receive an email with the download links. Download all the ebooks to your computer. I recommend opening a folder on your desktop and saving all the ebooks on your desktop until they are put on your site or in your store. This makes them handy and easily available.

Once you get the ebook downloaded to your desktop or wherever, be sure and unzip it and check it over, create a simple text file with your site url link to your web site, add the text file to the zipped folder. This will help to promote your web site so customer know where their bought the ebooks. Most of the times the ebooks will be zipped for faster download. You will need a program called WinZip installed on your computer to unzip the zipped files. You can get it for free at winzip To zip or unzip a zipped file, just right click and then click Open with WinZip (to unzip) and WinZip to zip it back up.

Most ebooks are in pdf format so they are readable on all computers. In order to read a pdf file, though, you will need the Adobe Reader program installed on your computer. This is also available for free at Adobe Reader. Pdf files are generally preferred over exe so try to stick with pdf ebooks as much as possible.

Now to get the ebooks on your site:
You will need to upload them to your host. This is done with your ftp or right in your control panel. After you have checked out the ebook, and zipped it back into a zip file, you want to give the ebook a coded name of sorts so people cannot guess the name of the ebook file and download it for free. For example: if you have an ebook called Ezine Publishing and you call the file ezinepublishing.zip, this could make it very easy for someone to "guess" the download link by the name and download the ebook for free.

You want to code the names: for example: instead of ezine publishing, you might name the file ez-pub-32c.zip These coded names are nearly impossible for people to guess so they are unable to steal the ebook. Be sure and keep track of your ebook file names.

Now, in your control panel or ftp, you would want to make a folder/directory called ebooks or name it something else if you prefer. This is where you will upload all your ebooks (unless you purchase a digital store script, then you will need to upload them to the folder the script tells you to).

So, now you have your ebooks uploaded to your site and have the download links to send to your customers when they buy the ebooks.

If you named and ebook zip file ez-pub-32c.zip and then uploaded it to your ebook folder, the complete download link will be http://yoursitenamehere.com/ebooks/ez-pub-32c.zip When forming a link, you always use your base site, then add any folders/directories that apply (ebooks is your directory) and then at the end you put the file name that you want to download. In this case, the file name is ez-pub-32c.zip.

Once you have decided to start selling ebooks, there are several ways you can do it. You can sell them via eBay, on your site via Paypal (or other payment method) or using a digital store script for automatic delivery.

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

If you already have a web site, you can easily offer the ebooks on your existing site. Once you have the ebooks uploaded start adding them to your site. Start with an index page where you would introduce your ebook store to your visitors. Let them know there will be no shipping cost as they are delivered electronically. Make sure you introduce your ebook store on your site homepage as well.

You might also want to list the categories on the index page so your customers can click directly to the ebooks they are interested in. Have a short description of the ebook and a graphic (if possible). You can have a whole sale page for each ebook or you can put several on a page. You will need a Paypal account its the best an safest way to sell and buy items on the internet.

Go to Paypal and setup an account, when that done you can get a Paypal button to put on your site for your customers when ordering. If you do not like Paypal, use any payment service you want.

**TIP When you sell the ebooks using Paypal or from your site make a thank you page that will automatically come up after the customer makes their purcahse. You can add the download file url to this page or you can email the links to your customer personally.

If you plan on selling several ebooks, you can also 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 items immediately which helps with repeat sales.

Be sure to continually add new ebooks to your web site and email your existing customers to let them know about your new ebooks and any specials or sales you may be having. I have had numerous repeat sales by doing this.