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How to Sell an eBook on WordPress.
Selling an eBook on WordPress is a popular way of generating income on the internet. In fact, it is one of the easiest ways to sell digital products on the internet today.
But you need to know some basics on how to sell eBooks online, especially if you are going to sell them from your blog.
In this post, you’re going to learn how to sell eBooks on your WordPress site.
So let’s begin with the first step of selling an eBook online.
Choosing a Niche for Your eBook.
When it comes to writing a book, knowing what topic you want to write about is the key starting point.
It’s important that you pick the right niche for your eBook to be in.
This is because if you fail trying to sell your book about an obscure topic, it will negatively reflect that on your eBooks sales page.
Therefore, it’s better that you choose a topic that has high marketability when writing an eBook. It should be something that interests people, but at the same time something that people will be willing to spend money on.
Selling an eBook on WordPress, FAQs.
Selling an eBook on WordPress is a popular way of generating income on the internet.
In fact, it is one of the easiest ways to sell digital products on the internet today. But you need to know some of the basics.
First of all, WordPress is the most popular platform for blogging in the world.
Second, it’s not just free to download and available on the internet, but WordPress is also open source so you can customize your WordPress eBook site (if you wish to create just an eBook website) or a general blog, yourself.
Thirdly, there are tons of resources for learning it further.
Lastly, there are thousands of plugins that will assist you in selling your eBooks more easily on WordPress.
Now that you have some idea about what WordPress is, let’s dive into the business of selling an eBook and making money through it.
Let us look into some FAQs that will assist you in setting up a website to sell your digital product:
How do I upload an eBook on my site?
There are two ways of uploading an eBook on your site.
One is to use the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). If you are not familiar with this, it might be hard for you to upload files through FTP.
The second way is by using the WordPress Dashboard under the “Add New” menu in Posts or Pages section.
You can then upload your files through the “Add Media” button.
Once you have uploaded your eBook file on WordPress, it’s time to bring it into view of the visitors.
To do this, you need to create a new post or page so simply click “+ New” in Dashboard and start writing.
When you are done with the texts, you can upload your eBook file through, once again, by clicking the “Add Media” button.
Once your file is uploaded, it will show in the post like this:
[[link]](http://www.websiteaddress.com/ebook-name).
Now you need to create a link directing readers to download eBook by clicking on the text “Download eBook”.
Pricing and payment methods.
Once you have made your download link for the ebook available on WordPress, it’s time to determine the price of your digital product and ways to accept payments from customers.
If you are selling more than one item under the same category, then this will be your profit center.
You can create different prices for each product or offer special discounts for bulk purchases of eBooks as well.
You need to know the best practices in pricing your eBook, which will be covered in another post.
For payment, you can use the PayPal Instant Payment Notification (IPN) service to transfer money into your account every time someone makes a purchase.
You can just go to PayPal and register yourself as a merchant for free.
How do I create an eBook store in WordPress?
One of the best features in WordPress is that you can sell your eBooks on your blog with minimum effort.
However, if you want to build an eBook store on your website so readers can purchase more than one eBook, there are also enough plugins available for you which will assist you in this process hassle free.
Here are a couple of posts that will show you how as well as give you the tools you’ll need to create an eBook store in WordPress.
- WordPress plugin for selling books and making money! FAQs.
- Create a WordPress book library with a plugin. Here’s how!
How do I sell downloadable files on WordPress?
The simplest way I know is to use WordPress Download Manager. You can easily add files to your site, manage them and their users (with download limits), and keep track of all the downloads you’ve ever had.
It’s very configurable and easy to use. If your main purpose for putting up a file download page is to sell your work, I can’t recommend anything better.
WordPress Download Manager will do the job, but it’s not for everyone. But, if you are willing to put some time into getting your files online then the WordPress Download Manager plugin might just be the perfect plugin solution for you.
It has a wide range of functionality, is easy to use and configure, and can be used for selling almost any type of product, not just eBooks.
Can you sell a PDF on WordPress?
Yes, you can! There are many ways to sell PDFs online. WordPress is the perfect tool to do this. Here are a few posts that talk about how to sell a PDF on WordPress.
- WordPress plugin for selling books and making money! FAQs.
- Create a WordPress book library with a plugin. Here’s how!
- PDF to WordPress Converter. PDFs into Posts and more!
By reading the posts above you will be able to sell PDFs on your WordPress website as well.
How to Sell an eBook on WordPress, summary.
To sum up, using WordPress to sell eBooks is an extremely easy process. All you need to do is create a post or page, where you upload your eBook file and make the download link available on the post.
If you want customers to purchase more than one digital product at once, then you can build an “ebook store” on your website by using a few plugins.
Also, there is a wealth of information available on the Internet about selling eBooks on WordPress as well as other websites. It will take some time to read through all those articles and tutorials, but once you do that, you’ll be ready to sell your digital products in no time!
