Not long ago whenever readers wanted to pick up books – hardcovers or paperbacks – they often went to their local library or book stores. Today, more and more readers get their book from purchasing them online. These books are marketed as e-books, downloadable documents, pdf ebook, etc. They come in easy to read format and with technology, some can be read right from their mobile phones. Of course, it can be printed if they like. It seems like people from all walk of life writing e book nowadays. This is something not limited to writers alone. If you got experience – professional or personal – you could come up with the next bestsellers online writing your own e-books.

Let’s suppose you have found a topic and completed the writing, you then have to make an important decision. The decision may not only affect how much money you make, but how much work required to bring it forward to your market. That decision is: sell your own e-book or have someone else sell it for you (resellers). There are advantages and disadvantage to each option. To choose the best one, you compare them against each other and listen to your gut feeling – what is it telling you? My own experience tells me that such decision is more ‘emotional’ than ‘logical’. You decide.

Suppose you decide to sell on your own. Realized that fact that you need the time and money to do so. Do not expect customers to purchase your e-book if they do not even know that it exists. To make it known, you want to effectively market your e-book. On the Web, this may involve creating a website and submitting information type articles to directories. You need money to design and develop your own website. If you are not familiar with web design, you then need to outsource the task to professional website developer. If you do not have the time nor the money, maybe you want to consider offering resell rights to your ebook.

Resell rights is a sound online business model and has helped many individuals make money online. If you had decided to have someone else sell your masterpiece, this is how you are going to go about it. In a way, what you actually do is giving away your e-book but for a fee. Resellers who buy your e-book will then market it. Most likely, that person know or have some experience in promoting product online. I believe they have to or else, they get no return from their investment.

When it comes to offering resale rights to your e-book, there are a number of options. Many authors allow their purchaser to alter the material and then claim the creation rights. This is known as ‘private label resell rights.’ Some creator do not allow this but allow the purchasers’ name to be alongside their names. This is called ‘master resale rights.’ By creating your own contract or user agreement, you should be able to stipulate what you want and do not want done with your e-book.

The resellers of your e-book will make a certain amount of profit from the sale. Often time, the amount of money they make depends on how much work they put into their marketing.  You may be interested in pocketing this money yourself but you must understand how resell rights work. When offering your rights for sale, you can put a price tag on it that makes you feel worthy of your hard work. That is the only variable you can control in this business equation. Other than that, it is all in the hands of your resellers.

If you are interested in creating Pdf reports, e documents, downloadable files for the purpose of offering resell rights, start examining your options. As the popularity of reselling business increases, so does the competition. To make money off of this opportunity, act fast before someone else decides to becomes your next ebook resell business competitor.

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When you buy ebook resell packages what you really buy is a bundle of information. If you are anything like me, I am always on the look out for the best products and deals because that is what I do.

I am a reseller.

I find it hard to believe when people buy e book with resale rights for nothing. Even if they do, they might not realize a golden opportunity to get back their investment by following some simple, doable steps. But we are not talking about making profit from your e book purchase aren’t we so lets just stick to the matter at hand shall we?

What Is a Resell Rights?

I can tell you that there are only two types of rights to a piece of information which comes in e book form:

1) Personal rights
2) Resell rights

Personal rights do not allow you to sell the item in whatever form you can come up with. It is for your own personal use and the material will self-destruct (just kidding!). You cannot give it away for free and you cannot include it as a package unless stated otherwise. Even some free giveaway ebook can have personal rights to it. I have a few in my possession. This usually are given as a teaser for bigger products but the rights do not allow you to give it away, one way or the other.

Resell rights on the other hands allow you to sell and make profits. Generally, it falls into 3 categories (with some twist of sub-categories but we leave them for another time):

Resale Rights Only

What it means is you can buy and resell that e book to one customer. That is it. For example you buy ‘How to Sell Your First E Book Online’ and it comes with resale rights. After you done with the piece, you can turn around and list it on Tradebit or you slap your own website and sell it. But you can only sell it to ONE person which means, you can out down in your sales letter ‘Only 1 copy left’ or ‘Only 1 copy will ever be sold.’ And you cannot alter the e book in any way you like. Clear?

Master Resell Rights

With master resale rights (MRR), you can add some more info to the offer. You can add your name besides the author and instantly become the co-author. Cool ey? But still, you cannot claim the book as your brainchild. The original author still holds the right and you just promote it as a reseller. You resell it (is that why you buy the ebook resell in the first place?). It should be obvious that by giving MRR to e book, the author aim to spread his presence through you. I mean it is a fair trade right? He or she ‘slaves’ him or herself to create the piece and wants to be rewarded. You on the other hand just ride on and make profit. Sounds fair to me…

With MRR you can sell the e book to another person and that person can sell it to another person. Then the selling cycle stops. There are sub-categories of MRR which allow you to pass on the license so your next customer can sell to more people down the road.

It is enough for you to know that with MRR you can customize and sell to more than one person.

And I save the best for last…

Private Label Rights

This is one of the best licenses to get your hands on, if you can. But be aware though – lately there are many ‘fly-by-nights’ private label resell rights (PLR) providers roaming the Net. They offer low quality, out of date product packages which hide behind overly nice design and promoted by greedy, selfish marketers who happen to overuse your e-mail address (just because you signed up with them)!

I tell you what – you can learn from these selfish SOB. How? Look at what they promote and outperformed them with better product. I wanted to try this but right now, I am too busy with my own, non-invasive making money online project. I do not ask my potential customers for their e-mail address. I just provide them with value-added content (have I provide value to you with this post? I hope I did!).

Where to Buy Ebook to Resell?

These are my favorite sources:

1) Google. Type “subject+resell rights” into the Search Box and look at what turns up. You can use other Search Engines (SE) if you like.

2) Forums. Try Warrior Forum or Conquer Your Niche Forum.

3) Product Developer. One that I know of is the guys over at Surefirewealth. You might want to check them out.

4) Individual e book store owners. I can’t help but list this one in because I am one of them…

How Much You Need to Pay?

Depending on your sources, some providers or resellers put different requirements for their offer. It can be a one time off special offer. It can be special occasion sale a.k.a. Firesale. It can be a membership site concept. It all varies. It is best if you know how much budget you are going to work with. Don’t just jump on the bandwagon or else you are left with pile of junks that only collect dust on your virtual shelf (pity you if that ever happen!).

To buy ebook resell or not to buy – that actually the question you asked once you get your plan put together because I do find it hard to believe until today, that a person just go out and buy such e book for personal use. If you want to satisfy your thirst for e book, try giveaway event. Some events giveaway e books that come with resale license you know…

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I am assuming this is your first time that you never sold an e book in your entire life before, and you never make a dime if you have tried selling e books right now. Fair? Let’s get it on!

Profit Defines

Lame right? I mean who did not know that profit is what you have left after you take away your expenses from your capital. But wait; I did say capital and do you know how much do you need to set up a reselling process for ebook? Let me walk you through.

1) The cost to own the product. If you can create your own, fine, that’s a huge save to begin with. If not, then there’s ‘acquisition’ cost i.e. cost of owning a ‘resellers license.’ Typically it cost you around low $27 to high $97 for a license. Sometimes it falls in between and sometimes it is at extreme end.

I have seen offers that go for less than $5 and higher than $147!

Next…

2) The domain and hosting cost. You need a place to showcase your offer and online, that place is called ‘websites.’ You can opt to settle for free alternative e.g. Tradebit, Paydotcom, etc. but there’s reason why you want to set up your own ‘outlet’…

You want total control!

That is why earlier on I told you that I can send you astray with the words in here. I assume that NO one had told you the profit for a resell ebook is made on the BACKEND. Huh!?

I’ll explain that in a while. Let’s move on.

3) Miscellaneous cost. When you acquire a license right, there are products which are ‘raw.’ You need to customize them to make it presentable. You need a sales letter, ebook cover, and promotional banner, etc. Then there is Autoresponder account, follow up emails, payment processor, affiliate management software or solution, and on and on.

Feeling overwhelm already? You should, because I want you to…

But the fact remains that these are the costs i.e. your capital that you need to come up with if you want to start your reselling business. To make profit, you simply make sure that what get from your sales are more than what you spend.

And I have not even started with cost to get traffic! But of course, there’s free traffic method for first timers but that’s the subject for another time. I promised you earlier to tell you about ‘profit from reselling ebook is made on the backend.’

Here’s what I mean:

Backend Profit

When you set up your resellers’ website (on your own domain and hosting of course), it is wise for you to get another product – e book, software, audio or video – to complement your resale offer. Some experts say that you do not set up your website and pitch your offer until you have the whole process well thought out. You have your main offer, your backend offer and your follow up e-mail series to presell your offer in case they did not take it up the first time.

And that’s why it is call ‘back end’ profit because put simply, the action took place at the back. Have I made it clear to you? I hope I have.

Resellers Package

Selling one e book might not make you millions overnight. This is not like selling Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code and grabbed by millions. So the best you can do is to make your offer appeals to as many target audience as possible. I have mix emotions about this but let’s just make this simple and try to go for as many people as possible.

It is Not Your Offer; It’s Your Market

But then again, your market is the key. Whether you hit big or miss big, your market determines that. You can come up with the best combination of products, the most persuasive words to sell them, and the impeccable e-cover which you hire a branded designer to come up with but if it did not appeal to a specific, hungry, rabid market; all that can amount to zero.

That means no profit.

The point I am making here is simply this: your resell ebook profits are not solely depending on what you have to offer. It depends on your whole sales process, your market and your commitment to stick to a plan. That explains why I am still hanging on to my business model for the past three years.

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