Delivering your eBook
A very important aspect of eBooks sales is the method of delivery of the final product. Without a doubt the best manner of delivering an eBook is instant download. Once a payment by the customer he/she should be given a link for the download. This can be easily done by placing the eBook on your server. Instant download is the quickest and the most popular way of delivering an eBook.
Instant automated download is not only beneficial to your customers but to you as a business owner as well. It eliminates the hassles and costs associated with shipping a product. Moreover, the whole process of downloading an eBook can be automated which gives you all the more time to concentrate of other important facets of selling an eBook - promotion and marketing.
Although, the most popular method, instant download is not the only way an eBook can be distributed. Other methods include:
§ Emailing the eBook
§ Selling the eBook on DVD
§ Selling the eBook on Diskettes
§ Selling the eBook on CD-ROMs
Emailing the eBook is a secure process. However, it is time consuming, especially for you. Some people do prefer Email to instant download. That said it is certainly not the best way to deliver an eBook. eBooks are hardly distributed on diskettes. The obvious reason is size of the eBook. eBooks that contain graphics would generally not fit into a floppy disk. Besides, delivering an eBook on a disk is not instant and involves shipping costs.
Lastly, eBooks can also be delivered on CD-ROMs. This is a pretty useful method if your eBook size is very large. Moreover, CD-ROMs can easily house a hefty number of eBooks. Another major advantage of having eBooks on a CD-ROM is that you could sell these eBooks to major companies such as Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble. These companies buy CD-ROM eBooks and sell them on their websites. Furthermore, you could also sell CD-ROM books yourself on these sites.
CD-ROMs offer many other advantages to your business. They can act as extremely effective marketing tools. Along with the eBooks, you could provide company and product brochures, promotional offers, as well as sample eBooks to induce more sales from existing customers. You could also have your whole website on a CD-ROM listing out all your eBooks as well as other products.
