By
Robert Smith
©
2000 All Rights Reserved
How
To Create and Sell Information Products & E-Books
The
Internet has given even the smallest home-based business the
ability to reach a huge audience: 288,000,000 people are
online. Thousands more get online every day.
Over
9 million information products were sold over the Internet in
1999.
Selling
information products in electronic e-book format accounted for
over 20% of all Internet sales this year, and it's growing.
Information products are almost 100% profit. The key is to
offer valuable hard to find information in your special
expertise at a reasonable price.
Authors
are offering every type of subject matter on-line in the form
of electronic books.
Almost
anyone can create, publish and sell or give away information
products. You can deliver information in e-books at no cost
via e-mail or web site download.
You
can also use free information products to promote your
business driving thousands of visitors to your web site at
little or no cost.
Finding
Subject Matter For E-Books
We
ALL have special expertise at something. Your special
expertise combined with a passion for the subject make e-books
the most profitable Internet Products. You can write an e-book
about anything in which you have a special interest or
expertise.
In
short' you can publish an e-book about any subject that a
conventional book could be written about. The best selling
e-books deal with some form of hard to find specialty or niche
subject matter.
Here
are a just a few examples; you can come up with more on your
own.
-
How-To
E-Books On Any Subject
-
Cook
Books & Recipes
-
Buying
A Used Car or RV
-
Automotive
Specialties
-
Exercise
& Fitness
-
Weight
Loss E-Books
-
Buying
Real Estate & No Money Down E-books
-
Pet
& Training Information
-
Wildlife
And The Outdoors
-
Recreational
And Travel
-
Internet
Marketing
E-Book
Formats
During
the last few months I have tested several of the many e-book
creation software tools on the market.
There
are two common e-book creation formats being used to produce
and distribute electronic e-books. Both formats offer a secure
way to sell & distribute your information products.
Adobe
Acrobat
Acrobat
is a popular program for creating e-books. The Acrobat format
is not my first choice for three reasons:
In
order to view e-books produced in Acrobat format you must
download and install free reader software to view e-books
The
software required to produce e-books is expensive to purchase
The
learning curve for the Acrobat is difficult to master for the
graphically challenged.
Visit
Adobe.com to learn more about authoring in Acrobat .pdf
format.
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/
HTML
Compilers
E-book
compiler software programs use standard HTML files to produce
e-books. The HTML compiler software compresses normal HTML
files into a self-extracting executable file (.exe).
If
you are on-line you already have a HTML browser installed.
Windows comes with Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Anyone can
download and view e-books produced with any compiler software
using any Internet browser.
You
can see a comprehensive review of most of the e-book software
available at the following URL. But read on first, I can save
you the time and effort I spent testing the software.
http://www.ebookcompilers.com/
Free
E-Book Viewers
Microsoft
offers "Front Page Light" a free web design program.
Netscape also offers a free web site design tool titled
"Netscape Composer". If Netscape is already
installed you can use the FILE OPEN PAGE command to create or
open HTML files in Netscape's Composer program, which is
included with Netscape. AOL offers "AOL Press" a
free web site design tool.
No
matter which browser you presently use you can already
download, install and view HTML compiled e-books with no
special knowledge or additional software.
Security
Issues
If
you are selling your information products you don't want to
make it easy for people to copy your source files. Most
compilers make it difficult if not impossible for scammers to
copy and resell your information without your permission. You
can make it impossible to copy and/or print the information
and the best programs use multiple passwords keyed to your
computer to protect their e-books from theft.
Selling
E-Books On-Line
The
cheapest way to accept credit cards on-line and create your
own affiliate program is to use a service like clickbank
ClickBank.com has a one-time $49.95 activation fee, and a $1 +
7.5% fee per sale. There are no monthly fees.
You
can earn up to 50% commissions re-selling hundreds of other
people's products on-line through Click Bank's affiliate
programs. If you are not ready to purchase a full-blown
merchant's account try using ClickBank.com.
http://hop.clickbank.net/?smithfam
If
you need your own Merchant's Account visit the following page.
http://www.smithfam.com/special.html
The
Best E-Book Software Programs Reviewed
I
have tested several compilers. I considered ease of use,
product cost, and functionality. A good compiler runs in a
browser generated on the fly. I found that the price had very
little to do with the quality of the software.
1)
The Active HTML Compiler - Free Demo & $29
Full
Review
http://www.ebookcompilers.com/activebook.html
Download Free Demo Here
http://www.smithfam.com/ebook.html
2)
E-book Edit Pro - Free Demo & $64.95
Full
Review
http://www.ebookcompilers.com/ebookedit.html
Download Free Demo Here
http://refer.ebookedit.com/click.cgi?id=smithfam
3)
E-Book HTML Compiler Pro and Pro Plus $69.95/$89.95
Full
Review + Other HTML Compilers
http://www.ebooksnbytes.com/
Download Free Demo Here
http://new-projects.com/booksoft/
The
Best HTML Software Compiler Reviewed
Overall
the best HTML Compiler I tested at any price is the
"Active E-Book Compiler" written by Sunil Tanna.
It's also one of the cheapest products I tested. Not only is
the software great and easy to learn, the security,
documentation and support is the best I found anywhere at any
price. This is the program I purchased.
"Active
E-Book Compiler" comes with a
unique feature that assigns an ESBN number to each e-book
compiled. The newest version adds many additional features
making this one of the most customizable and flexible
compilers on the market
The
free demo is fully functional; you can create and distribute
unlimited e-books with the free demo. However if you want to
sell your information products you can register the software
for only $29.95.
Customers
can become affiliates free and earn afull $50% commission
on each sale. You can compile an affiliate link into your
e-books.
Get
More Information & Download The Active HTML Compiler Here
http://www.smithfam.com/ebook.html
I
created a demo e-book compiling my Traffic Seeker submission
software web site. It only required a couple of hours to
produce an e-book using pages I already created earlier. I
followed the step-by-step instructions from the USERS GUIDE on
the HELP menu.
Download
A Free Demo E-Book For The Traffic Seeker Submission
Software
http://members.xoom.com/
"Active E-Book Compiler" Full Review
http://www.ebookcompilers.com/activebook.html
Best
Wishes
Bob
ROBERT
SMITH helps thousands successfully market their
Internet based home business. You'll find tons of free
marketing tools & resources on his Internet Marketing web
site at: <http://www.smithfam.com/>.
You
can reach him by phone at: (541) 689-1847 PST, and by email
at. <mailto:bob@smithfam.com>
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