Selling Ebooks With Resale Rights on CD

Starting your own home based business with eBay is easy - but finding products to sell can be a little harder. With so many different categories of products to sell, finding products that move quickly, and offer the most profit, may seem a bit daunting. But ebooks offer you just that: ebooks are cheap and easy to reproduce, and you can make a large profit from just one sale.

Unfortunately, with eBay's new rules, digital media is no longer allowed to be sold through auction listings. Many long-time ebook sellers have given up on their venture because they thought there was no way around this rule. In fact, there is a perfect solution for the ban on digital media, and it is well within eBay's regulations. Instead of offering digital downloads, you can sell your ebooks on CD.

Since eBay requires that items be exchange through parcel post, copying your ebooks onto a CD can ensure that you are selling within their rules. Plus, when you sell your buyers a CD, they don't have to worry about losing their copy of the ebook to an upgrade or a system restore - they still have the original copy on disk. This is a huge bonus for buyers, who used to be out the money if anything happened to their digital file.

Selling your ebooks on CD is easy and cheap. Blank CD-R's are incredibly affordable, and can be picked up from just about anywhere, including places like Wal-Mart. All you need is a CD burner installed on your computer, which most machines built within the last five years have standard. It only takes a few minutes to copy an ebook onto a CD, and you can add multiple ebooks on one CD, for buyers who purchase more than one ebook from you.

Something else to consider when venturing into the ebook business is whether or not you are going to offer your buyers resale rights. Resale rights allow your buyers to turn around and resell the ebook they bought from you. This is a great way to spend less time marketing, by catering to other ebook sellers. Selling ebooks with resale rights means you can set your prices higher, and let your buyers handle the tough sales themselves.

Be careful of how lenient you are with your ebook rights, however. Allowing your buyers too much freedom with your ebooks can cause competition with your very own product. Normal resale rights generally restrict your buyers to only selling the ebook to others, without resale rights. Looser resale rights can allow your buyers to sell your ebook along with resale rights, which means their buyers can also resell the ebook to others. If too many people get their hands on the ebook with resale rights, you'll suddenly find yourself trying to beat out others who are selling your product.

With the right ebooks, you can make quite a living selling ebooks with resale rights on eBay. Just be sure to monitor how lenient the resale rights you package with your ebook are, lest you run yourself out of business!