Travel Back in Time for a Money-Making eBook
Monday, October 9th, 2006 at 5:05 pm by Evelyn Grazini, AC Student and Staff Writer
Time Travel. It’s an interesting idea and something that I bet we all wish we could do. It’s a classic case of “If I knew then what I know now. . .” What if you knew that a book was going to be a best-seller, I bet you would just go back in time and write it yourself!
Someone pinch me, I must be dreaming, or am I?
You can find good books to market by finding those in the Public Domain. Then just do some research at the library to help you write ads for those books. (As a first step, try to find the original ad for the book.) Here’s how the process might play out.
Go to Project Gutenberg.
There you will find electronic versions of hard copy books that are in the public domain. You are free to sell those eBooks in the public domain and keep all the profit. (Be sure to check the copyright status first, to ensure they really are in the public domain.)
If you don’t want to re-type an eBook that you find, and you don’t have a text version or a way to covert PDFs, you can have someone scan in the pages. Then just convert it into a PDF-type eBook.
After you get your book together, set up a simple website and write the sales letter. (If you think you have a big winner, consider having a professional copywriter compose the letter.)
You can also poll Affiliate Classroom members to see if you might have a winning subject. If you don’t want to post your subject, just ask for advice on the general concept. There are a lot of gurus that hang out at the forums, so take advantage of them.
I’ve seen this done with very old books on dreaming and self-help. The gurus spend a few days with the processing and develop a $19 eBook. They send a mailer out to their list and then watch the orders come pouring in.
Other than the official site at Project Gutenberg, you should keep your eyes open in other places. You never know when you might find your million-dollar best seller in a pile of old magazines or books at an antique store. You might even find original sales letters that you can use to develop your own.
Just make sure they are indeed public domain items, and then develop your book, send a mailer to your list, and watch the orders come in!
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