Does anyone ever make money selling ebooks? Ebooks, online courses, digital products, downloadable step-by-step guides: call them what you will. The Internet is awash with ebooks, everything from how to cure cancer to meeting members of the opposite (or same) sex to grooming dogs, someone has written an ebook about it and is charging people $50 dollars or more to read it.
Most ebook authors use ClickBank, PayDotCom or Commission Junction to market their products and often hand over upwards of 50% commission to the affiliate who made the sale and of course a small cut to the website they use to market it.
I have to admit that I am one such author. Through another website (that I keep completely separate from this one and has no thematic link ) I have been marketing an ebook. But I have another admission…after about 150 hits on my “pitch page” I have not made a single sale.
I have plenty of affiliates on board and a decent amount of inbound links. The pitch page is decent enough…as cheesy and tacky as these things tend to be…but no one is buying.
I think my next plan is to halve the price. If that doesn’t work I am going to remove the ebook from sale, publish it for free online and scoop in the adsense and amazon revenue.
I’ll keep you posted.
Just an afterthought. On the Clickbank marketplace you can see some limited stats for the products Clickbank offers. You can’t see sales volume but you can see that sales have been made…so someone is buying them! I just suspect that not a lot of people are making big bucks. Then I guess why would you pay $50 to a naff looking website when $20 buys you a book in a real shop by an expert?