Re: more specific info on ebooks

**k*@herbgardeningtips.com**

Hi Maureen, congratulations on the success of your ebook.  Sounds great!
For those of us who are strickly writers and don't know much about
ecommerce, what do you mean exactly when you say that you're handling all
the processing manually.  How does it save you money?

I'm curious about this because it seems that more and more people are
getting into ebooks publishing and I'm trying to see if it's worth getting
into to expand my freelance writing work.

Thanks again for your help!

Kent

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> Thanks Maureen, do you have a link directly to where you sell your
> book? How did you get started? How did you do end up marketing and
> selling it? Any other ebook tips?
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> Cheers,
> Kent
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> In a message dated 10/4/2005 11:32:12 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> kent@herbgardeningtips.com writes:
> Do they
> actually sell?  Amazon.com pretty much has dominated the print book
> market, so maybe it's a good idea, but I still have my doubts that
> people want to read a book on their computer and not curled up on the
> couch with a cup of coffee.
> I sell an ebook on starting an herb business for $10....it's about 70
> pages  printed out and I get at least 10 orders a week for it.  It's
> their option to  print it off and read it offline.  No complaints so
> far and I've been doing it  for about 5 years.
>
> Maureen Rogers
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> In a message dated 10/4/2005 12:45:07 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> kent@herbgardeningtips.com writes:
> Thanks Maureen, do you have a link directly to where you sell your
> book? How did you get started? How did you do end up marketing and
> selling it? Any other ebook tips?
>
>
> The link to the book is off the main page of the herbworld.com site and
> it  takes them to the shopping cart.  I've also got it sprinkled around
> both my  sites in different areas as well since so many areas of the
> sites are linked to  other websites.  It was easy to start since I had
> the conference proceedings  already in the computer and all I needed to
> do was reformat it and make it a pdf  file for download.  I do nothing
> to market it except to create very key word  rich pages.  If you put
> "starting an herb business" in google I'm the first to  come up and if
> you put in "herb business" I'm in the top 5.    I know what  potential
> readers would put in the search engines.  I also put a couple herb
> cookbooks I'd edited into a download format and sell that as well.
> Don't push it  so don't sell as many.  My own laziness there :-)  I
> think ebooks work best  for publications under 100 printed pages.  Some
> people can't download large  documents (I have that problem at least
> once every quarter) and it does take up a  lot of paper on their end
> for those that want to read offline.  I handle all  the processing
> manually because it saves me money in credit card processing but  if
> you do use a system like authorizenet my shopping cart has an automatic
>  ebook download function which is great if you're selling large
> quantities.
>
> Maureen
>
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> herbnet.com and herbworld.com
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