9 Advantages Of Selling Ebooks Online

Ebooks have high profit margins

One of my favourite things about selling digital products, is the fact that they have really high profit margins - the highest actually - up to 100% - making them on the the most profitable products available to sell in the world. You can chose the price, and you keep whatever you sell them for - minus any store running costs. Please check out our podcast “How To Make Your First $550 Selling Ebooks Online” to find out more about the best methods to price your ebooks to maximise profit. 

You can sell to customers globally from wherever you are

Moving on, selling ebooks allows you to sell all over the world; from anywhere you decide to call your home, or workspace, to anyone anywhere with an internet connection and an electronic device which can read PDFs. You could be, say on the couch in the US and make sales to a customer in New Zealand, or be sat on a beach in Australia and sell to customers in the UK. If I recall correctly, when I marketed the very first Startup Streams store, the mental strength hacks store as mentioned in my previous podcast, I had easily managed to sell to customers in over 20 countries - even though English, the language the ebooks and website was written in, wasn’t the primary or native language of most of those countries. 

Ebooks are easy to edit and translate 

Leading on nicely to my next point: Ebooks are super easy to edit and translate. Can you imagine if you are an author, having spent a year writing a book and having it printed 10,000 times to only find grammatical errors, or find that the facts you used were incorrect - at the point of no-return? It’s too late. Luckily with ebooks, there is no such drama. If you want to change an ebook, you can simple edit the original working file, save to PDF and re-upload to your store. You could even send updated versions to previous customers to keep them interested in your work by going that one extra step to provide continuing value. It’s so easy to do. 

In terms of translation, our ebooks, available with any current Startup Streams store, have been translated into a number of languages in the past; French, Spanish, German… even Arabic I believe. This is easy to do with ebooks as you can edit the working files, and upload straight to your store or it would be very simple to forward the ebook working files to a freelance translator to help you that way too.

Ebooks are environmentally friendly, compared to books

And for the ecologically aware, ebooks are far more environmentally friendly, compared to the manufacturing processes and raw materials used in standard book production. Yes, having a large book case with lots of your favourite titles is nice to have, and brag about, but as you can save between 2000-6000 books on a single Amazon Kindle, you could save a mountain of paper - and your customers will know this too.

Selling ebooks allows you to startup and launch quickly 

Lastly, selling ebooks allows you to launch your business faster. Doubly so, as we at Startup Streams have done a lot of the work for you. You can browse dozens of pre-made ready-to-grow ebook stores, available for you to purchase right now, at StartupStreams.com. 

All of our stores include master resell rights as standard, meaning that you will never have to pay any royalties to sell the included ebooks. Easy and effective. 

To summarise, I think that it is fair to say that those who wish to sell online, wish to do so in the most passive way possible. And although I don’t really believe there is any such thing as a truly passive income - there will always be effort involved with making money after all - selling digital ebooks online right now, can certainly get you pretty close...