Comments on: How To Write And Publish Your Ebook In 14 Steps

By: IrishWonder

IrishWonder — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:03:22 +0000

In reply to Cody.

Cody, I agree with you completely. In my experience, free updates and additional perks available to paying customers may be enough of an incentive for people to buy your product even after it gets pirated.

By: IrishWonder

IrishWonder — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:59:17 +0000

In reply to Jason.

That’s what I’m saying, don’t underprice it either.

By: Cody

Cody — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 06:28:46 +0000

I think 10. Prepare for piracy is right and it should make one think about how not to go overboard with piracy protection as well.

I’ve seen so many e-books and other digital products out there with extreme digital rights management that make the experience of using them infuriating to use for the customer.

If you go so far to protect your work from pirates that the paying customer suffers you are definitely doing it wrong. Personally I’ve taken a middle ground with some of the digital products I’ve developed by adding small protections that don’t intrude on the user experience.

If pirates want to steal your work they will beat any protection you put in there, so better to focus on the paying customer first and foremost and make their experience as positive as possible.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 04:16:04 +0000

Hello, you talk about not over pricing but what about under pricing? I don’t want to sell myself short and it seems like so many ebooks are going for a few measly bucks. How do you find a middle ground?

By: Ruud Hein

Ruud Hein — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:36:46 +0000

In reply to IrishWonder.

It’s an pleasure to have you here!

Amazing stuff on Tamar’s situation. Maybe creative commons work?

By: IrishWonder

IrishWonder — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:36:01 +0000

In reply to Javier.

The point of a blog post is not in having or not having links – and I guess no need to tie everything to any SEO effects either.

By: Javier

Javier — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:17:08 +0000

Thanks for this, I have notice that in this post you don’t have a single link, when usually I find that lots of successful bloggers tend to have plenty of links in their posts. DO you think this is something that could have SEO effects in some way? Thanks

By: IrishWonder

IrishWonder — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:19:02 +0000

Thanks Ruud for letting me post here. Already after this post was completed and scheduled for publishing I have noticed this tweet by Tamar Weinberg: https://twitter.com/tamar/status/301547635402231808 – well this is DEFINITELY not the way to publish ebooks! Had to add this as reappropriation of other people’s content in repackaged format seems to be getting slightly out of shape lately.