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How to Sell an eBook From a Website
Did you know that you can be extremely successful selling an eBook from a website, instead of selling it on Amazon as a Kindle book? I did this when I first got started online in 2006, years before Amazon became established as a way for authors to self-publish and before Kindle was created. Knowing how to sell an eBook from a website can earn you more income than you ever imagined.
There are several steps in this process. The first is to decide what your eBook will be about. In my case, I chose the topic of real estate farming because this was something I knew about in great detail after working in real estate for more than twenty years prior to becoming an online entrepreneur. I had a new neighbor who did not understand how to grow her real estate business by farming an area of her community, so I started by writing about ten pages where I outlined my method in a step-by-step manner. As she was implementing what I shared with her over the next week I continued to write more and expanded my eBook to about sixty pages.
At some point I decided to publish this information myself and then sell it on my website. Remember, this was in 2006 when the concept of eBooks was very new. Just the idea of being able to sell a digital information product from your website was a revolutionary one, started by Joe Vitale and Jim Edwards, both of whom did this themselves and…
