Hi all

I am looking for eBooks which I can purchase resell rights for based on any (or all) of the following subjects;

~ buying houses
~ selling houses
~ building houses
~ repairing houses

Or any other related "housing" themes...for the UK market.

The eBook(s) need to be something that I can physically send out by email after the person has paid - so Clickbank is not good for the purpose.

I've hunted through Google but found nothing good that's aimed at the UK market...

Any ideas anyone? Thanks in advance.

Hi,

Firstly, I think sending out ebooks by email might be a bad idea mainly because they can then forward it to other people hence you lose out but if you have thought about this point already please accept my apologies.

Second, I know of the sort of books you are looking for about houses as I work at a publisher that publish such books. Im not sure if Richard will allow me to mention the name as it might be considered as advertising, but we do stock a sucessful range of titles all to do with buying and selling property here in UK and abroad.

We are in the process of turning these into ebooks but will be selling them through a dedicated e-books website with all the secuirty of limiting forwarding, copying etc. Any interest in becoming an affiliate once this is up and running? Or even becoming an affiliate for the existing hardcopy books?

Hi Ray

Thanks for your comments - appreciated. I'm not interested in affiliating at this point as I need to physically take orders via an online shop, accept payment, process the order and then send.

Thanks though.

See http://www.beawareofrealestate.com/

Clickbank lets you send eBooks by email but I prefer the fully automated system. Why do unnecessary work? It doesn't matter whether you email an eBook or let the customer download it - he can still email it to his friends.

The main reason for NOT emailing is the unreliability of email (recipient's mailbox full or ISP's spam filter detects attachment and trashes it) and the manual work involved. Will you stay awake 24 hours a day to serve customers in the USA and Australia?

Martin, not to correct you, but there are systems that allow you to stop people opening up ebooks if they are forwarded it although rather costly to set up. Its a web server process that encrypts the file and writes the permissions for copying, printing, copying text, forwarding etc.

Thanks for your comments - I already sell hundreds of eBooks per month on an automated basis...

For this particular (new) site, the actual selling of the eBook is a secondary concern. I want to run an online shop on this particular domain which will give around 400 extra uniques per day - I'm not that interested in whether they purchase or not, I am more interested in the easy traffic gained...

Martin, I did look at the book you linked to, but cannot see a price for Resell rights..thanks very much though - I have emailed the Author to see if she will sell Resell Rights. Thanks!

Originally posted by RayBanUK@Jun 8 2005, 02:39 PM
Martin, not to correct you, but there are systems that allow you to stop people opening up ebooks if they are forwarded it although rather costly to set up.

We are probably discussing different things. An eBook is generally a cross-platform PDF file. It can be password "protected" (hah hah) but that's all. I think you are referring to Windows-only files, such as the one Corey Rudl developed. It was a nightmare. I had to run a Windoze emulator and it dialled up my Internet connection every 3 minutes, locking the computer for one minute in the process. So I could read for 2 minutes, wait a minute, read for two minutes....

Ugh!

Windows-only files are OK if the book refers to Windows-only subjects. Otherwise don't use them because you instantly lose 5% of your market and, if you omit to make it plain that the files are Windoze only, you get a lot of refund requests.

Martin, think I haven't formally introduce myself, but I do work in publishing myself for quite a reknown business books publisher. I'm aware of the different format of ebooks and the one you refer to as being the Windows version is Microsoft Reader format and as you correcntly stated, no Mac version is available. I'm aware that most ebooks are on adobe PDF format which is accessible to almost all computer platforms inc PDAs and Smartphones. Theres also another format called MobiPocket.

Like I said, PDF's CAN be more than password protected, but it would cost in the region of $5000 and some web server configuration and development before it is possible. I think it had to be PDF version 6 or 7 though which I can see may limit the PDF audience but all they need to do is download the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Have a look at http://www.fileopen.com/publisher.html which would encrypt the PDF ebooks and you can set up options like how long they can view it, if they can print it, copy it, forward it, edit it etc. Its an option I personally looked into and know works.

Don't take my word for it, there are ebook shops already doing it. Have a look at http://www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk/html/mor...ookid=536877088 (BTW, this isn't the company I work for, just a competitor) so I know its possible.

Only thing I would say is its not cheap and after doing my research there are no cheap ways of doing this (well there are but limited in functionality).

Mac users mostly use "Preview" to read PDF documents. However, I confess that I supply one myself that will work properly (movies) only in Acrobat reader. I doubt if "Preview" will handle protected formats. I doubt that the losses due to piracy would be worth the cost and hassle of protection (and the loss of 5% of the market - which, I read today, is now 6% as Apple's share is increasing).

Points worth considering?

Mr Garou,

Firstly, apologies for my late reply. This is the first time I have visited this forum in over 5 months due to a number of reasons.

However, if it is still relevant and you are still interested, I have produced an ebook called The Housebuyers Guide. It is completely UK biased and covers information on buying a house, dealing with Solicitors, Valuers and arranging a mortgage and the various mortgage types.

Let me know if you are interested. I sold just over 60 of them in a month through my website www.thehousebuyersguide.co.uk earlier this year with a combination of PPC and ebay.

Sadly, the site has gone to the big server in the sky but I still have the domain name. Anyway, I digress, let me know if you are interested.

Mark Harrison