How to sell your book on the web

How to sell your book on the web

Luckily you don't have to convince Barnes and Noble to put your book on a prominent shelf. You have the Internet at your disposal, and the Internet is the place where ebooks are purchased 99 percent of the time. The remainder of ebooks are sold at conferences and the like by CD-ROM (which incidentally should be packaged with great cover art and delivered in a shiny crystal case).

Get a presence on the web
First things first. You'll need some web space for your book. You can either pay a host or you can get free hosting service. I recommend you pay (for an inexpensive web host at least), and I'll tell you why.

There are many providers of free web pages, and a quick Google on "free web hosting" will illustrate that to the tune of page after page of providers. However, some of the services are unreliable, have annoying popups or other advertising, or have strict requirements on what you can and can't sell.

If you want something for nothing though, a good starting point is your own Internet Service Provider (ISP). Some ISPs, such as AOL, MSN, EarthLink, or RoadRunner may provide free web space as part of your monthly subscription. What they do not provide free is a domain name for your web site, such as www.youexpert.com.
Likewise, other free web hosting services do not allow you to use your own domain name. Besides the annoying ads and rules, the domain name issue is a huge reason not to use free hosts. If you want to be professional

and maximize sales, you will need your own domain, and not www.somecompany.com/withdistractingadvertising/yougetwhatyoupayfor.
Tip: Even with the big ISPs, free hosting is not an ideal for you. It's just not that effective to have a site called www.personal/internetserviceprovider.com/home.html.

You can purchase a domain name to match the title of your ebook or the name of your business easily through any number of services. This should not cost you more than $20 per year, so don't pay more than that. Some fee-based web-site hosts will register your domain name for you as part of their pricing.

To get your own domain name to show up when you use your ISP or other free web host, you can purchase forwarding services which will redirect users to your free web host when the user types in your domain name. These can run $10 to $50 per year. Not worth it. You'll be paying for service, yet still getting the annoying advertising and rules from the free host provider. Not the best of either world.

I recommend paying for web hosting service. First of all, it's pretty cheap these days. You can get your own web page with tracking features for around $20 - $30 per month. You'll get enough space to store a library full of your own ebooks if you wish. And you can use your own domain name.

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And if and when you add more ebooks to your library, then you should consider using forwarding services as necessary so that you can direct traffic to your best ebook-selling site.