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So, Can You Really Sell eBooks On eBay And Make Cold Hard Cash?

Selling eBooks on eBay, and making any worthwhile profit fromdoing so, is becoming more and more difficult.Gone are the days when you could sell someone else's books oneBay, and it's becoming considerably more difficult to sellebooks that you might have written yourself or via Public DomainPublications.Many people seem to think that ebooks should be freely available(because so many good ones are)and there are some excellentebooks for sale on ebay but rarely do they sell for more than afew pennies.So purchase ebooks from eBay by all means, there's just no moneyin trying to sell ebooks on eBay.There's also the problem of who owns the copyright to the ebookyou are trying to sell. This has become so much of a headachethat eBay has come up with it's own policy to try and deal withthis situation.HERE'S AN EXCEPT FROM EBAY'S VERO POLICY.* eBay's Verified Rights Owner (VeRO) Program* eBay's VeRO Program was developed to facilitate cooperationbetween eBay and rights owners protecting their intellectualproperty rights.* Highlights of the program include: * Expeditious removal of listings reported to eBay by over 5,000intellectual property rights owners * Specific, detailed warnings designed to deter the listing ofpotentially infringing items before a listing is posted on eBay * Voluntary daily monitoring and removal by eBay of listingsoffering potentially counterfeit or otherwise infringing items * Voluntary daily monitoring and removal by eBay of listingsthat violate eBay policies designed to prevent the listing ofinfringing items on eBay * Ability to save searches and have the results emailed to youthrough Favorite Searches * Suspension of repeat offenders * Continuing efforts to identify and prevent previouslysuspended users from reregistering for eBay * Cooperation with rights owners seeking personal information onalleged infringers. * However, because eBay is not an expert in you...

...r intellectualproperty rights, and cannot verify that sellers have the rightto sell the millions of items they post on eBay each day, weneed your help in identifying listings which do not appear ontheir face to infringe your rights.To read the policy in it's entirety go to:-http://pages.ebay.com/help/confidence/ia/protecting_intellectual_property.html KEEP IT SIMPLE AND STRAIGHTFORWARD Now there is a way around this that is easier to achieve thanmost people believe.The easiest way of making sure that you don't fall foul ofeBay's VeRo Policy is:* Create The Products YourselfThe easiest way of overcoming peoples beliefs that your ebookshould be freely availablen is.* Don't have your ebook look like an ebook!So when is an ebook not an ebook?When it is perceived by the visitors to your eBay Sales Page assomething else.For example, if you bundled together your ebook with a printedversion of the book, and or an Audio CD or Video DVD, yourproduct would have a much higher perceived value.SO.* You create a printed version of your ebook contained in anicely printed folder.* You take a digital photograph of the cover of your printedversion, surrounded by the audio CD and or Video DVD and usethis as your Gallery Picture when you start to create yourpurchase It Now, eBay auction page.* You use the same picture or pictures throughout your eBayAuction sales page. People are used to seeing software generatedebook covers on eBay but by using the above method your productwill not be perceived as an ebook.* In your sales page include the information that the entirepackage can be digitally downloaded by the customer if they wish.Do this and you will be one of the very few sellers on eBayusing this technique and take my word for it, this technique isvery powerful indeed.Now this might sound like a lot of work or seem overcomplicated, yet when you come to think of it, most PCs andLaptops come com...

...lete with hardware and software for creatingAudio CDs and DVDs? and if you don't have this kind of equipmentyou can get it on eBay relatively cheaply.SO HOW DO YOU DO IT?With this technology it is fairly simple to create Audio CDs andVideo DVDs.* You could record or have somebody else record your ebook ontoAudio CD or DVD and provide it as an audio product within yourproduct bundle. Many people find it easier to learn by"listening" than by reading.* If the subject matter of your book included information on howto use a particular type of software for example, you could usea video capture program such as "Camtasia"(http://www.techsmith.com) to capture the sequence of steps thatwould need to be gone through in order to use the softwareeffectively.* If your ebook covered a practical subject like gardening forinstance you could use a Camcorder to take actual "videos" ofthe various aspects of gardening, copy them to DVD and make itpart of your "bundle". Many people find it easier to learn by"seeing" than by reading or listening.Remember that your product bundle can be downloaded by yourcustomer (assuming you have set your product up this way) butdon't be afraid to provide them with the printed version of yourbook along with the Audio and Video DVDs if that's what theyprefer.Your ebook presented in this way will represent a much highervalue than the traditional way of selling ebooks on eBay andtherefore you can ask a much higher price than you wouldotherwise.If all this sounds a little daunting to you I suggest that youcarry out some research into what you've read here. Moreinformation on how to create Books and Videos to sell on eBaycan be found at the end of this article.SO, CAN YOU REALLY SELL EBOOKS ON EBAY AND MAKE COLD HARD CASH?Sure you can.By following the methods described here, selling ebooks on eBayreally can pay off Big Time and you wont have broken any ofeBay's rules.