Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Sell eBooks On eBay Without Breaking The Rules

Ebooks, along with dozens of other forms of digital goods, used to be hot sellers on eBay. Buyers loved them because they could purchase and download the item instantly, and sellers loved them because they could sell as many as they wanted without enduring any additional costs. EBay decided to change the rules, however, and now digital goods are no longer permitted to be sold through auctions. But you can still sell your ebooks on eBay - without breaking the rules.

Most modern home computers come standard with a CD burner. If you have purchased your computer within the last five years, chances are, you have a burner. Using this one piece of equipment, you can keep selling ebooks on eBay and still be within their restrictions. Instead of selling ebooks for digital download, you can burn each ebook onto a new CD, and mail them to your buyers.

Burning your ebooks onto a CD may seem like a setback, but it's really not. For starters, blank CD's are incredibly cheap, and you can pick them up just about anywhere - including Wal-Mart. The shipping costs for mailing a CD are incredibly low, especially if you utilize media post. So your buyer doesn't have to pay that much more to have the item shipped to them, and you don't have to spend that much more to burn the ebook onto a CD. And, you can still sell as many ebooks as you want; your only limit is how many blank CD's you can get your hands on.

Besides the low costs, your buyers will actually be better off with buying ebooks on a CD. In the past, when a buyer decided to upgrade their computer or lost their files to corruption, they lost their ebooks along with it. That would mean they either had to repurchase the ebook - if it was even still available - or be out the money they spent. This can't happen with a CD; buyers will have a hard copy of their ebook, will be able to make copies of their...
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