Comment 10 ways to monetize ebooks (Score 5, Informative) 128
I've made some spare money writing and marketing ebooks, but I moved onto greener pastures long ago. Some of the business strategies or ideas I have had monetizing ebooks:
- 1. Embed affiliate links to other books within the ebook
- 2. Offer additional content that supplements the ebook for a small donation
- 3. Require an email address/newsletter subscription before sending the free ebook, and then try and monetize through the newsletters
- 4. Offer physical copies of the book for a fee
- 5. Break the ebook up into smaller parts for an email newsletter series, and monetize in the newsletter
- 6. Pledge to write additional material as certain fundraising goals are met
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- 8. Sell resale rights, PLR, etc.
- 9. Initially sell the ebook only, and then unlock it for free for all people after $xxxx has been raised
- 10. Write additional non-free books/ebooks and then use your free ebooks to advertise the pay books
Now I know many of these are not applicable to OP, but it's what worked for me before I moved onto writing GPL software instead of ebooks.