This series comes from my experience selling my own ebook, Tell Your Time.
Already written in the series: How to Write an Ebook: The Guide, Why It’s a Good Idea, Choose a Sellable Topic, Preparing to Write, Writing Tips from a Non-Writer, Editing and Naming, Formatting, Setting Up Accounts and Pricing (see the full list here).
So the ebook is done and now you want to sell it. You'll need a way to distribute your digital product in a way that's easy for you and for those buying it. I highly recommend you use a service which automates the process as much as possible. There are paid-for plugins that accomplish this. Personally, I use E-junkie for a few reasons:
- It's reasonably priced. There's a $5 monthly service fee for up to 10 digital products (the price increases if you sell more digital products with them).
- It's easy. Set up is simple as you'll see in the video below. And once you're set up, paying affiliates and ongoing maintenance is easy as well.
- It's familiar. Lots of ebooks are sold via E-junkie so it's a service that many buyers already know and many affiliates already use.
- It's reliable (as much as anything can be online). Blog for any length of time and you'll find out that 100% uptime is not really true. Sites crash and online companies disappear but there's a certain amount of confidence I'm willing to put in a company who is also handling the accounts of huge bloggers like ProBlogger and the like.
How to put your product on E-junkie
Here's a video that walks you through the process:
Can't see the video? Watch it here.
Video Notes:
- Login (or register) to your e-junkie account.
- Make sure the "Seller" tab is selected and go to your "Seller Admin" page.
- Set your seller account preferences in the right column, such as "Edit Profile" etc.
- Make sure you set your Sales Tax info if needed. (See if sales tax is required in your state here.)
- To upload your product, click "Add Product".
- Name your file, select the appropriate check boxes, edit your emails (optional), click "Submit".
- Upload your file using the "Upload Product File" button.
- Copy and paste the code into a post, a page or a Text Widget in your sidebar.
- Congratulations, you're ready to sell!
Read the next post in this series: How to Write an Ebook: Creating a Sales Page (or Site).
Disclosure: There are affiliate links in this post.
Other posts in this series
- How to Write an Ebook
- How to Write an Ebook: Why It's a Good Idea
- How to Write an Ebook: Choose a Sellable Topic
- How to Write an Ebook: Preparing to Write
- How to Write an Ebook: Writing Tips from a Non-Writer
- How to Write an Ebook: Editing and Naming
- How to Write an Ebook: Formatting
- How to Write an Ebook: Setting Up Accounts
- How to Write an Ebook: Pricing
- How to Write an Ebook: Distribution
- How to Write an Ebook: Creating a Sales Page (or Site)
- How to Write an Ebook: Preparing for Affiliates
- How to Write an Ebook: Taking care of your affiliates
- How to Write an Ebook: Paying your affiliates
- How to Make Your Ebook Available on Kindle & Nook
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Thanks Amy! I appreciate your insights. I was researching this and came to a similar conclusion. Click Bank charges $50 just to get started (yikes!).
I was also impressed that they give you a Mass Payment spreadsheet that can be used with PayPal to pay affiliates. I never would have thought of that, but I can see how that would be a huge time saver.
Yes, the Mass Pay feature is great. It takes me literally about 3 minutes to pay all of my affiliates in one fell swoop every month.
Wow, I've just been to Kikolani and I jumped here and realized I've found a goldmine of information regarding ebook writing. Like I said at Kikolani's, I've made it a goal for 2011 to write my very first e-book (and who knows, more ebooks after that) as a prerequisite to my listbuilding goal. Well, looks like I'll be hanging around here for quite a while as I soak in all ideas and guidance I can find here.
Amy, thanks for all the great info on your site! If I am planning to distribute my ebook for free as a way of building traffic to my site, would you still recommend e-junkie? Or is there a way to offer a pdf download straight from my site? (Or maybe that's coming up in the next post and I just haven't gotten there yet?
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Yes, you can upload a PDF straight to your site so readers can download it if they'd like. I explained how to do it (albeit briefly) in How to Enter a Post in WordPress: The Basics.
Hi Amy,
One or two of our customers have pointed me to this article series. I've just read through and it's a great howto of getting up and running, so thanks I'll certainly be passing it on to a few people.
I thought you might be interested in http://www.digitaldeliveryapp.com which is a service I launched as a modern equivalent of e-junkie. It's only 6 months old but we're seeing a lot of people switch over from e-junkie to us as we've proved more reliable, offer the service for free until you start selling products, and it's much easier to use (+ works on non-flash devices). Of course there's always new people starting up in any area but we're definitely here for the long haul, 37 signals style. Please take a look and we'd love to hear what you think.
Anyway sales pitch over, keep up the good blogging,
George
Thanks, George. I'll have to check it out! I'm always up for finding new tools and resources. Thanks for stopping by.
Thank you so much for sharing all of this wonderful information!
I am working on my e-book, and read many blogs, but havent done one myself!
One question for you please? Did you get a professional editor to proof your book before you marketed it?
Yes, I did.
Amy,
Do you have a post on publishing with Kindle and Nook? I do know how with Kindle, but B&N is not as user friendly. If publishing on Nook, do you sign up as a linkshare affiliate or in a separate location?
Thanks!
I just used the help sections for both Kindle and Nook. Do you mean signing up as an affiliate to sell your own book via Nook? I'm not sure where their affiliate program resides. I haven't done so because I don't get many sales there. Check their TOS to make sure you're following the rules.
Yes. I wasn't wanting to be an affiliate for my own book, though it says you can. It just keeps putting me in that sign up area when I try to follow links for publishing with Nook. The only other one I saw is for printed books. I have looked all over, but I will keep looking.
Oh yeah, I see it. Looks like you have to go through LinkShare. The link is in this paragraph: