When starting an eBooks resale business, it helps to get as many people as possible to read your eBooks, see your company name, and to build backlinks to your site. 

Free eBooks .net is an ideal way to accomplish all 3!. Free eBooks .net is currently the number one website on Google for the phrase “Free eBooks” and attracts millions of visitors each week. 

The idea is that you pay a listing fee to upload each eBook (out $20) and people can then download the eBook for free. 

$20 may seem like a lot to pay to give away an eBook, however the benefits include massive exposure for your eBooks (which probably contain your affiliate links!), and your name as a published author, as well as your company name will both build recognition.

For example, I recently uploaded an eBook to Free eBooks .net and within 8 weeks around 2000 people had downloaded it!

On the front page of the eBook I also offered resale rights, meaning that those 2000 people could also distribute it if they wanted to.

Another quick search shows me that in the eBay category, one author has had their book downloaded over 16,000 times! Imagine if 1% of those people bought an affiliate offer that person was promoting in the eBook! 

There are over 40 different categories to post your eBook in, so whatever your eBook subject, there will be a place to upload it! 

Free eBooks .net also allows you to post a link back to your website in your profile, and this gives you a high value backlink to your site. 

I hope this has given you another idea to move forward in your eBooks resale business! 

When starting out in an eBooks resale business. it is always better to have a variety of outlets to sell your eBooks. 

This is to ensure your eBooks gain maximum exposure to a wide audience, and you can see which sites are generating the most revenue for you.

One excellent site to try to sell your digital products is Tradebit.

Tradebit is a very popular site, where you can sell all types of digital downloads, from music, instruction manuals, and of course eBooks.

Tradbit charges a very small setup fee (about $5) to get started ,and after that you can sell as many itens as you like. 

Whenever you sell an item Tradebit takes a small commission, but there are no monthly fees, so this makes it an excellent site to test the water for your eBooks.

You will also benefit from the massive traffic that Tradbit already has, and Tradebit listings often appear on the first page of Google for search queries.

One downside to Tradebit is that it doesn’t support HTML, so you cannot upload a sales page – you can however upload a product image, and then copy and paste the sales page into the description. 

You can also mention your own website, although you cannot have a clickable link. All in all, Tradebit is extremely cheap to get started, you can upload products in less than 5 minutes, and you will benefit from the high traffic they already receive.

You also receive any revenues you have earned on a weekly basis direct into your Paypal account. 

Customers don’t need to set up Tradebit accounts, which means that they can quick and easily download products, tempting them to make impulse purchases. 

Using Tradebit is an excellent way to get started in an eBooks resale business, or to add an additional income stream to your current eBook business.  

What is download theft and how could it impact your eBooks Resale business?

Download theft occurs when people download digital products that they have not paid for, by somehow obtaining the download link to your product and by-passing the payment!  

This can happen in a number of ways.

1.) Other customers share the download link.  If they only share the download link with a couple of friends this may not turn into a huge loss, however if the link ends up on a forum or social bookmarking site, then potentially hundreds of people could end up with free access to your product! 

2.) The download thief may guess your download link. This could be because you have a unsecured method of numbering your products, e.g. if you sell an eBook about dog training and set the download file as www.yourdomain.com/dogtrainingebook.pdf this would be easily guessable.  Especially if a customer buys one eBook from you, and is provided with a simple download link such as this, they may then guess the download location of your other eBook titles.

What can be done to protect your eBooks Resale business against this problem?

There are a number of things that can be done to significantly reduce your risk of download theft:

Create download links that are virtually impossible to guess and change them regularly. For example, instead of simply dogtrainingebook.pdf, you could create a download link such as dog-training-ebook-4671288.pdf. This would eradicate the possibility of anyone being able to guess your download links.

However, it would still not stop the problem of people sharing your download links. 

For this reason, it is a good idea to change the location of your files every now and again, especially if you have a product that is high value and is particularly popular. 

You could invest in digital delivery software. This type of software will provide customers with a download link that is unique with every purchase, and can be set to expire after a fixed amount of time or number of downloads.  

Digital Delivery software can also reduce the admin time needed to run your eBooks resale business, for example, by eliminating the need to manually email eBooks to customers. 

There is a number of digital delivery software available on the market, however the two most highly rated by eBook sellers and internet marketers are My Digital Dispatch and DL Guard. 

Is download theft really enough of a threat to worry about?

It is extremely difficult to measure the true cost of download theft to an eBooks resale business, as it is impossible to track exactly who is sharing and downloading your links.

However, think of it this way; if you were an offline business, say a shop, you would take basic steps to ensure the security of your premises e.g. by locking the doors at night and investing in an alarm system. You would not wait until someone stole from you before deciding to take these basic security steps! 

The same logic should be applied to an online business – why wait to see if someone does steal from you (and you may not even know they are doing it!) before deciding to protect yourself?

After all, you put a lot of time and effort into your ebooks resale business, so taking basic steps to protect it should be an important consideration. 

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When starting an eBooks resale business, one of the most confusing aspects can be deciding which types of eBooks to sell.

There are many factors that can determine the answer to this question, including:

How and where will you be selling you eBooks?

For example, if you have your own eBook store, then you may want to sell eBooks on all types of topics.

The same could be true if you decide to conduct your eBooks resale business on auction sites such as eBay. 

However, if you are particularly interested in a certain topic or subject, and there is enough scope to sell many eBooks on this topic, then you could consider specialising in just one subject. 

For example, you could open an eBay store, or your own eBook website, and stock it solely with recipe books, or gardening books etc. 

You may find it easier to promote your eBook business if it is a specialist store, and  over time you may be seen as an expert in that particular niche. 

If you are have an online business which operates in a certain market, e.g. a website dedicated to crafts, then you could give away or sell an eBook to customers about making your own cards. 

This could be an excellent way to build your email contact list. You could also make affiliate commissions from any products or services you recommend in the eBook. 

What types of eBooks are other people selling and for how much? 

Doing some quick research on sites such as eBay, Tradebit, and Google will bring up listings of the same or similar products that you are intending to sell, which is an excellent way to see what your competitors are offering. 

Are you an expert in something? Then create your own eBooks to sell! 

Creating your own eBooks, as opposed to obtaining eBooks to sell with resell rights, can be a highly profitable business! You will then be offering eBooks that no-one else has, as many eBooks are so widely distributed that they have little or no resale value.  

Writing your own eBook is a subject which will require it own blog post, however it is definitely something to consider if you are passionate about your particular niche, and enjoy writing.

What are the “hot” niches right now?

Hot niches are always ones that will solve a particular problem for a person – making money and losing weight are two of the most popular niches and always will be. However, these two topics are also the most competitive, with millions of people offering products and services in these niches. 

That is not to say that you cannot make money by selling in these niches, but you do need to find a corner of the market that has not been saturated, by doing some  research. 

This research may uncover, for example, that a lot of people are searching for information on weight loss for children, and as yet there is not too much competition (just a example!). 

When planning which eBooks to sell, you must first do your market research before wasting too much time or money on setting up your business, to ensure that there is a market for this information.

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When online entrepreneurs purchase resell rights eBooks, they usually think that the only way they can make use of them is to sell them, for example on eBay, or their own website.

However, “giving away” resell rights eBooks for free, could provide you with something far more valuable than the few dollars you would get from the sale of the eBook – a list! By enticing customers to give you their email address in return for a free eBook or report, you can build your list much more rapidly than most other methods. 

What is a “list” and why is it such a valuable asset to have?

When setting up an online business, a list is one of the most important assets that you can build. 

A list is basically building up a database of email addresses, collected through an autoresponder,  of people who have opted in to the offer you have provided. 

You would then have a list of people that are all interested in the niche of that eBook – who then become potential buyers for future products, services and affiliate products you can promote to them! Also, because you know exactly what interests them, they are often extremely responsive to future offers you promote to them, and can become repeat customers. 

What types of resell rights eBooks or reports should I give away? 

The type of resell rights eBooks or reports that you should give away depends on which niche you wish to target, and what products or services you plan to promote to your list in the future.It may be worth thinking about the types of  offers you intend to promote, before giving away your free report.

For example, if you intend to promote a Clickbank product in the future about muscle gain, then the eBook you give away now should be something that appeals to this niche, without completely solving their problem. For example, your free eBook may be about “preparing your body for a weight training regime”, which would give a few basic nutrition and fitness tips, but would not go in-depth about every weight training exercise, or else they would have no need to purchase another weight training product at a later date! 

You should always make your report as good quality as possible, as this is how you will earn trust and a good reputation with your subscribers. 

When giving away resell rights ebooks, chances are there are other people giving them away as well, so try to make yours slightly original from theirs. This does not have to be complicated – after all you are giving away the product for free – but could include adding or rewriting part of the content to adapt it more to your personal style, adding a new eBook cover, and checking for spelling mistakes.   

Where can I give away resell rights eBooks in return for email addresses?

There are a number of places you can do this:

Firstly, a “squeeze page” is one of the most used places for implementing this tactic.

A squeeze page is basically a one page website, or page of a website, that collects email addresses in return for giving away something free. However, you will still need to drive traffic to this squeeze page in the first place in order to get people to sign up, or else they won’t even know its there! You can link to your squeeze page using some of the methods below. 

eBay classified ads – You can advertise just about any product or service using eBay classified ads, and this is a perfect place to put up a squeeze page. You will benefit from all of the traffic that eBay has already, so it maybe easier to get signups than through you own hosted squeeze page. 

Craigslist – this is another place where you can place a classified ad displaying your squeeze page or opt-in form to give away resell rights eBooks. 

Forums – always check the rules of the forum, but some may allow you to post a link to your squeeze page so that their readers can download your free eBook, as long as the topic is relevant to the forum. 

You Tube – creating a short video on You Tube explaining the benefits of your free eBook, with a link to your squeeze page, is a fantastic way to get a lot of sign ups to your offer. 

I hope this article has provided you with some inspiration as to how you can give away resell rights eBooks, in order to build a list, and therefore, your eBooks resale business.

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In this article we will investigate the different types of ebooks resale rights available, and we will discuss what these differences mean for you as a buyer or seller.

We will look at Private Label Rights (PLR), Master Resell Rights (MRR) and Standard Resale Rights (SRR).

Each of these ebooks resale rights can also come with its own set of limitations. Every license is different so it is important to check the license of each ebook you buy to establish exactly what you can or cannot do with it. 

Private Label Rights (also known as PLR) mean that you get the “source” document included with the ebook (usually the editable word doc). This means that you can change/add/ delete as much content as you wish to the book making it as original as you want. It also means you can claim authorship of the book. You can add affiliate links for products you recommend and links back to your website etc. There is basically no limit as to what you can do with this type of ebook. You can even split the ebook up into smaller pieces to use as content for your blog, to use for a mini-course or for articles.

The benefits of this type of content are that you can edit the ebook to make it more original and you can also include whatever links or promotions you decide. The things to watch for when using PLR content is to make sure that the information contained has not already been widely used if you wish to use it for article marketing or as a blog post unless you are prepared to majorly edit or re-write sections of it. This is because it will be seen as duplicate content by the article site and the article may be rejected. At the very least you will not get good rankings in the search engines by using other peoples material.

However, when intended to be packaged as ebooks for resale, PLR material is definitely the best kind to buy, as you will be able to edit the content with your own links, and make it more original.
You should be aware that even some PLR material has certain restrictions, for example you may not allowed to just give it away (it must be sold for a price) or you cannot sell it on auction sites etc. All licenses will vary so check before you purchase it what the restrictions are. PLR material can be sold as both MRR or SRR which we will talk more about in the next article.

So, where can I find PLR material from?

There are literally hundreds of ways to obtain PLR material, but not all PLR is created equally. There are a few questions you need to ask yourself when sourcing PLR material:

How many other people have the material?

If there are hundreds of people already selling it/giving it away this may be a factor to consider. This is not necessarily to say that you should not try to compete if you can make your version of the ebook better than the competition (for example you could include bonus material such as another ebook or report that other competitors are not offering) You can do some research by typing the name of the ebook you intend to sell in the search box on ebay or on google and seeing what comes up.

Does the ebook come with the promotional material that I will need to sell it?

At the very least this should be the graphics and sales page unless you have the resources/expertise to either purchase or create your own. It would be very difficult to sell an ebook without this material.

Is the ebook of a good enough quality that I would want to put my name to it?

Don’t forget, when you sell an ebook and claim authorship of it, you are putting your brand or personal name to that ebook. If the information contained is unreliable or out of date, this could affect your credibility as a seller.

Are there any limitations to what I can do with this material?

As mentioned earlier you must first check the license to see if there are any limitations as to where/how you can sell the book. Some PLR material has absolutely no limitations whatsoever. Other licenses may restrict you from selling a the ebook on auction sites for example or from giving it away for free.

There are numerous places that you can buy PLR from covering all subjects.

One of the best places to get high quality PLR material that shouldn’t be too widely distributed is the Warrior Forum. There is also an excellent thread on the warrior forum HERE listing hundreds of PLR sites.

Remember that you should look for quality over quantity when choosing a membership site or buying a package of PLR material from ebay. For example there are frequently packages of tens of thousands of ebooks sold on ebay for pennies. However, the majority of this material will be out of date, won’t come with graphics, sales page etc. and may be extremely poor quality. It would take days to trawl through it all to find even one or two items you could use for ebooks resale, and even then, they will probably already be widely distributed.

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