Selling Your Ebooks On The Net

First and foremost, always include info on your books in your "sig" line. Send press releases to ezines, appropriate web sites, newsgroups and to your online friends who in turn will post the info other places you might not think of. Submit articles or stories to paying and even non-paying e-zines and newsletters, especially if they will include the url to your website. Create your own newsletter and include info on your upcoming releases, author interviews, book reviews and book signings.

Twilight Times ezine publishes interviews with epublished authors. Check out an article by Charlotte Boyett-Compo on "What You Won't Be Getting..." [when you sign with an epublisher.] http://www.twilighttimes.com/c_Compo13b.html

Join online communities such as SFF Net if you write SF/F. http://www.sff.net

Authors Den offers great promo opportunities. http://www.authorsden.com/

Stay current with the fast-changing world of epublishing by subscribing to emaillists and newsletters, such as:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AnEBookChat
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/e-authors
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community

An author website is a "must." No doubt you have submitted your web site url to a number of search engines and web sites.

If not, check out Virtual Promote. http://www.virtualpromote.com/

And Lorna Tedder's "Your Free Book Promotion Countdown Checklist." Terrific resource.

http://www.geocities.com/~lorna_tedder/virgins.html

My best advice to you is to purchase the following books:
e-Lectrify Your Sales: A Writer's Guide to e-Publishing $uccess by Leta Nolan Childers from DiskUs Publishing
http://www.diskuspublishing.com/electrify.html

Practical Tips for Online Authors 2001 Edition by Lida E. Quillen from TT Books http://www.twilighttimesbooks.com/practical_tips.html

For those of you interested in learning more about epublishing in general, I recommend Karen Wiesner's book, Electronic Publishing, The Definitive Guide. The 2001 edition will be available at the end of July from Avid Press.
http://www.avidpress.com/wiesner.htm

The promo and marketing tips in the above books are well worth the price. And the material covered does not really overlap.

"Marketing and Self-Promotion" by Astrid Cooper is enlightening http://www.twilighttimes.com/ACooper4a.html

The July issue of eBook Ecstasy contains an article by Charlotte Boyett-Compo on "How Not to Promote Your Book."
http://www.ebook-ecstasy.com/nl_21.html

Several distributors and ebook stores offer a non-exclusive agreement and will sell your books for you.

E-booksCafe.com is a new ebook site that offers authors worldwide the opportunity to promote and sell their books/POD short stories/novellas/books for free. http://www.topzone.com/ebookscafe/

eBookHome.com will soon (perhaps before you read this) have over 2,000 more new titles from major publishers like Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Mcgraw-Hill and others. Their stated goal is to provide readers with an independent alternative to the two-name stores and moreover, to give smaller publishers an opportunity to compete alongside the bigger ones. http://www.eBookHome.com/