Promote Your eBooks
By Eva Almeida


Everyone is getting in on using eBooks as a promotional
tool to increase traffic to their site as well as boost
sales (or even as educational tools).

So, after you have created your eBook, how do you go
about promoting it?

Ah...let me count the ways!

The first thing that you can do is offer it to people
who you are in contact with online. Include it in your
sig file in your email discussion lists, especially those
that are geared towards eBooks such as:
mailto:AnEbookChat-subscribe@onelist.com and
mailto:Ebook_News-subscribe@onelist.com

Upload it to your site using an FTP program such as
CuteFTP at http://www.cuteftp.com or WS_FTP. Then either
give it away free to all your visitors to increase your
traffic or sell it for extra profits. Give it away
as prizes to your ezine subscribers.

Submit your eBook to as many directories as possible.
Here are a few directories that you can start off
with if your eBook is free (also submit to the
freebie listing sites too, check out an excellent
article called "How to Harness the Power of E-Books"
at: http://www.success-doctor.com/article43.htm ).

http://www.zdnet.com
http://www.download.com
http://www.upload.com
http://www.softseek.com/submit/index.html
http://ebooks.searchking.com
http://www.ebooksnbytes.com
http://www.the-ebook-directory.com
http://ebookshop.bizland.com
http://www.atlanticbridge.net/netbiz/freebooks.htm
http://www.mcpromotions.com/e-books.htm
http://www.web-source.net/free_ebooks.htm
http://writers-bbs.com/inkspot/?forum=ebookpromo
http://topsoft.com/add/
http://www.webattack.com/download/sub-admin.shtml
http://www.directupdate.com/softlib/

Please note that many of the above sites are more
for software than eBooks, but you can still submit
your free eBooks to them. Check out the next site
for more places that may display your eBooks.
http://www.euro-share.com/uplinks.htm

If you sell your eBooks, you can also sell them at
the following eBook sites:

http://www.booklocker.com
http://www.fatbrain.com/ematter/home.html
http://www.lisawrites.com
http://www.ebookshoppe.com
http://www.ebooksonthe.net
http://www.mypublish.com
http://www.amazon.com
http://www.borders.com
http://www.agoodbook.com (selective few listed)
http://www.hardshell.com (fiction/ non-fiction)
http://www.deadendstreet.com (alternative literature)
http://www.ebookconnections.com (fiction/non-fiction)

Not all of these sites are free to list your eBook
(some charge fees or percentages of your sales) and it
is just a sample of the virtual bookstores available.
Read the fine print since some sites may require their
publishing services for lower listing fees.

Create a page specifically for your eBook with appropriate
Meta Tags and submit the page to the top search engines
and directories. If your eBook is for sale, it may even
be worth it to list it with Goto.com by bidding on your
keywords. Don't forget the Open Directory at
http://www.dmoz.org since many search engines are using
their services for their own listings.

You could also create an affiliate program, if your
eBook is for sale and there is a brand new service out
that will get you set up very easily at:
http://www.simpleaffiliate.com/
You could even use Clickbank at http://www.clickbank.com/

A special thanks goes to everyone from the excellent
email discussion called AnEbookChat on the many ideas
for where to promote your ebooks, especially David Hallum
of http://ebookshop.bizland.com for his extensive resource
section.

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