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Proliferation of $7 eBooks

eBooktastic — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:02:53 +0000

When Jonathan Leger created his $7 Secrets ebook, I became suspicious that we would suddenly see an influx of $7 guides floating around the internet — and I was right.

Since the guide has been released, I’ve received numerous e-mails from marketers offering their latest creation for only $7. Jonathan has even aided in this trend my creating a website exclusively for the $7 products (the website is called $7 Offers).

The good news is that these guides are all affordable and short. The downside is that some people are not masters of education, thus, some of these guides are actually worthless.

It’s one thing to write a short, concise guide on a subject, it’s another thing completely to pull a bunch of pages together with no flow.

So, if you decide to pick up some $7 guides (and I probably will), make sure to look at the author’s reputation for the subject matter, her track record, and if possible, look for reviews of the report elsewhere.

You should also be wary when choosing to promote certain guides as well. If you promote garbage, you may lose the respect and trust of your readers. Be sure to thoroughly review a copy of the report — or at least, tell your readers it’s an unreviewed recommendation.

To this point, I’ve been lucky - the two guides ($7 Secrets and Craigslist Traffic) that I snagged for eBooktastic have been well put together.

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eBook Security

eBooktastic — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 04:52:15 +0000

eBook authors can put a lot of work, blood, sweat, and tears into their ebooks. Because of that, they deserve the revenue their ebook generates.

However, some less than honest people will try to circumvent the cost of the ebook by searching for it free elsewhere or by attempting to sell a pirated copy of the ebook.

This is inevitable, unfortunately. But, there are things that you can do, as an ebook author, to help protect yourself from ebook theft.

Make your copyright notice visible within the first 2 pages, and provide a way to report ebook copyright infringement and pirating. To also sweeten the pot, provide some type of reward for people who would tip you off.
Make sure to password protect your ebook with a strong password (at least 8 characters, but 15-20 is ideal). Use all the various characters and make it random so it’s more difficult to crack
Limit printing only to low resolution and disable the copy/paste function. If you offer information that needs to be copy/pasted, then create a separate document for it.
Include your name, copyright notice, a link to your website, and contact information in the footer of each page.
Close the ebook with a short bio and description of your expertise/services.
Make sure all links go through your own website so you can track their activity and update them as necessary
Password restrict the download area and install a download manager so you can manage the approved users individually and can turn off download privileges on a per user basis.