Chapter 7: Selling eBooks and Other Digital Media

Digital media is in many ways the ultimate product to sell on eBay. This is because there is virtually no cost involved in the obtaining and distribution of digital media!

A few things of note regarding digital media:

It is downloadable via the internet, which means no packaging and shipping costs
Because you can make it available via the internet, it can be easily automated for a nearly hands-free transaction
Exact copies can be made at will, so you will never run out of inventory

This very eBook you’re reading right now is a testament to the greatness of selling digital media!

You have free access to this eBook now, but I used to sell it. I wrote this book once, digitized it, and put it on my website. From there the sale, distribution, and delivery of it was all automated. People came to my website, paid through my payment processor, and were directed to a page to download your their copy, all happening automatically without any involvement from me.

In fact, I may very well have been in Las Vegas watching Blue Man Group at The Venetian® (great show by the way, I’ve seen them twice!) while all of that was happening!

The original stays on my web server. What you’re reading right now is an exact copy of what is on my web server. My server simply created a copy of it on your computer! I could potentially sell hundreds of eBooks everyday, all without doing any actual work myself.

But where to get the eBooks to sell? Personally I recommend writing your own. Whatever it happens to be that you know a lot about, write about that!

I’ve written a few eBooks about selling on eBay. But I’ve also written about how to save money by building your own computer, internet marketing, filing chapter 7 bankruptcy without an attorney, and a few other subjects.

I’ve known people who have had great success writing about subjects that you might not think anyone would be interested in, such as dog grooming, getting divorced without an attorney, car buying tactics, and even cook books. So don’t ever think that you don’t have something to write about!

eBay has a method to allow you to sell digital media hands free. Step-by-step instructions can be found on the eBay site at:

http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/selling-digital-items.html

A couple things to note:

You need to have a verified PayPal account
You must list in the fixed-price format

Doing these two things allow you to completely automate the process.

Now that you know how to SELL an eBook on eBay, you might be wondering how you can go about CREATING an eBook. If you’re interested in learning how to effectively write and create your own eBook, or even learn how to find previously written material that is part of the public domain that you can then sell, take a look at 7 Day eBook

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Subchapters:

The Basics
Drop Shipping
Government Auctions
Garage and Yard Sales
Liquidation / Closeouts
How to Find Wholesale Suppliers
Finding Manufacturers in China and Other Asian Wholesale Suppliers
Selling eBooks and Other Digital Media
Other
Chapter 7 Summary & Takeaways

Jump to another chapter:

Chapter 1: Driving Traffic to Your Auction Listing
Chapter 2: Listing for Higher Profits
Chapter 3: Does Any of this Stuff Work?
Chapter 4: eBay Stores
Chapter 5: Auction Management
Chapter 6: Doing Market Research
Chapter 7: Finding Products to Sell on eBay
Chapter 8: Mining eBay's Traffic
Chapter 9: HTML Tutorial
Chapter 10: Acting Like a PowerSeller
Chapter 11: Final Words