Auction Power Guide

With the spiraling eBay fees and competitive pricing, the last thing eBay ebook sellers want to worry about is buying new resalable content. However, there are many sources that you may not have thought about which provide you with free resalable ebooks that you can successfully add to your inventory. This article details just a few of them.

1) Ebay:- That’s right eBay is a great source to pick up free ebooks (OK they’re not quite free but very cheap). Many ebook sellers run auctions that start at 1p to attract customers. If nobody bids on these auctions you can pick up a very cheap resalable ebook.

Furthermore, some sellers run 1p ebook listings in their eBay store. That means that you can actually purchase the item as a Buy It Now for 1p and in some cases receives it instantly. Again another way to pick up a very cheap resalable ebook, courtesy of eBay. Do a search on eBay for “ebooks resell” or something similar, and then list them lowest priced first to see what you find.

2) Newsletters:- When you signed up for this newsletter I gave you two free ebooks. Some newsletters that I am currently a member of give me 5 free ebooks every week. I would recommend joining ebook related newsletters as not only do you receive valuable tips from that ebook seller, you also get free products to add to your eBay store. Have a browse through eBay for the top ebook sellers. If they have a newsletter joins it. It costs nothing and you are likely to benefit greatly.

3) Ebooks: – Usually when you buy a new ebook it contains links to many bonus ebooks with resell rights. Although you may have to pay for the first ebook, this is another way to get a plentiful collection of free resalable ebooks.

4) Online Forums:- Many users at online forums will give away free resalable ebooks or give away links that allow you to access free ebooks with resell rights. Just have a browse through the posts and see what you can find.

5) Ebook Websites:- Many websites that sell ebooks have a free download page. From this you can download free ebooks which quite often come with resell rights. Type “resell ebooks” into Google or any other major search engines, and have a browse through these websites. I am sure you will find more than enough ebooks to keep you going for a while.

Although free ebooks with resell rights are likely to be outdated in relation to the ones you pay for they are still a good way to bulk up your inventory at relatively little cost. The larger your store inventory is as an ebook seller, the more chance that you will get a sale. If you bulk up your inventory with free resalable ebooks which you then sell alongside the more expensive, up to date, resalable ebooks you are sure to enjoy increased success. Good Luck with your Ebook Sales!!!

Kumarsunil

I need to know about how to protect my intellectual property rights before I start selling my own original writings via eBay. I know there is a market out there, but I need tips from smart folks!

Any tips please?
Meg..and why not, miss Meg smartypants??

Meg isn’t too far off the mark. 90% of sales on eBay is done through searching for items. If I’m looking to buy a book I put in the search engine what I’m looking for. Usually by author. Look up some books on eBay and see what they are going for. Even big name authors don’t necessarily sell well.

I’ve walked down that path in the past. You may sell three or four copies…. eventually. But the time and money you have to spend hardly makes it worth the effort. Realize that eBay has fees for selling and PayPal also takes a chunk. Price your work high enough to actually make a profit and no one bids.

eBay also has strict rules about digital delivery and how such items can be listed. I take it you will try to sell ebooks? Put them on disk if you plan to list them on eBay. If you offer to email them to the winner then you have to list them as a Classified Add by eBays rules.

Protection? Forget about it. You can put copyright notices all over it and someone will still copy it and put it on the web somewhere.

It’s not IMPOSSIBLE to make money with a story you are selling yourself but it’s hard. I sold around 200 copies of a story I wrote on eBay but in order to sell it I had to change the entire story and list it in the adult section before I got a single sale. After sales began to drop I did a search and found my story had been posted on a dozen adult sites. I didn’t even bother to demand they delete them. I’d sold all I was going to at that point. I only averaged $1.02 per sale after all the fees.

Did I make a little money? Yeah, but just a little. And I had to completely rewrite the story and ruin it just so I could sell it. It also took about seven months to sell that many. I listened to my greedy side and pretty much destroyed a good story with unneeded sex just for money. I won’t be doing that again. I had to do a lot of work and lower my standards considerably for very little profit.

I know you think you can do it so give it a try. Just don’t be too disappointed if you don’t sell any copies. I have included a link to eBay’s listing policy for digital media.

Information is the key to making money, but it comes at a price. If you have the information that other people want, however, you can sell it at a huge profit. It’s not unheard for sellers with educational ebooks to make thousands of dollars per week, just by selling their ebooks on eBay. It’s surprisingly easy to get started, and you don’t even need to write your own ebook to do it.

There are literally thousands of ebooks available on the internet, both free and for a small fee. Finding the right ebooks to sell on eBay is perhaps the hardest part of the process. You need to find an ebook that offers information that other people need, but that isn’t readily available elsewhere. For this reason, most successful sellers stay away from free ebooks, as it isn’t difficult for other people to find these ebooks themselves.

Instead, purchasing ebooks for a low price along with the resale rights seems to be the way to go. Resale rights are important to consider, especially if you intend on allowing your buyers to resell the ebook themselves. Without resale rights, you cannot legally sell the ebook you have purchased. Research the resale rights that you are getting along with your ebook purchase to see if there are any restrictions that prevent you from selling the ebook in certain places, or if there is a price limit you must adhere to.

Once you have a solid inventory of ebooks, it’s time to start selling! To sell your ebooks on eBay, though, you need to familiarize yourself with eBay’s new rules with regard to digital products. You can no longer allow instant downloads of ebooks purchased through eBay. Instead, you must deliver a tangible product to your buyers to sell within eBay’s rules. A good way to do this is by copying your ebooks onto a CD when a buyer makes a purchase. You can then mail the ebook on CD to your buyers.

While some sellers see this method as a setback, it actually poses a benefit to your buyers. In the past, when a buyer purchased an ebook that they digitally downloaded, they could eventually lose the ebook when upgrading computers or reformatting their hard drive. They would then have to repurchase the same ebook, if it was even still available, or be out the money and the ebook.

With a CD, your buyers have a permanent hard copy of the ebook they purchased. That means if they have computer issues, or decide to upgrade their machine, they don’t have to worry about losing the ebooks they purchased from you. They can simply insert the CD into their CD-ROM drive, and their ebook is instantly available again.

Ebooks are an easy product to sell on eBay, and can be a great source of income for anyone. Even if you don’t have the time or the knowledge to write your own ebook, there are thousands of ebooks you can purchase for a low price specifically for selling on eBay. And once you purchase an ebook, you can resell it as many times as you’d like – your income potential is virtually limitless!

Vickie Sayce
http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-articles/making-money-selling-ebooks-on-ebay-738286.html

Many eBay sellers experience this exact same problem. They list an eBook on eBay which they are certain will sell but the auction ends with no sales and only five or six hits to the auction. Some small adjustments to the auction listing could easily explode the auction visitors and sales.

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