Re: FN-FORUM: selling an eBook on Wordpress

date posted 28th February 2008 14:45

Simon Wray wrote:
> I tend to agree that trying to sell eBooks is probably as waste of
> time and it would be more useful as a 'hook' in getting visitors to
> the site and sell stuff off that.
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Have you suggested they think about using a service like Lulu [1]. You
can upload PDFs and they will print and post single copies of your book.
On your website you just advertise/ describe the book and point
customers to Lulu to make their purchase. You don't need to worry about
shopping carts/ payment processing/ shipping/ etc. and as you are
selling a physical product you don't need to be concerned with someone
sticking your ebook on a BitTorrent site... You might also find that
people are more willing to buy as they will be getting something "real"
for their money.

I haven't use it so can't make a personal recommendation but as far as I
can tell you only pay Lulu when your book sells and so it will cost you
nothing to try it.

[1] http://www.lulu.com/uk/

Nick