Venturing into eBooks

Well I’m trying out eBooks. Low cost and I get to flex my design muscle a tad.

eBay’s new rules for selling digital material is very limiting however. I understand that they are trying to cut down on the problem products (spam, junk and virus infected files) but it really hurts those of us who are trying to start a legitimate business. Because I have to list my item as a “classified ad” and only under a very specific subcategory, not an auction or buy-it-now, my product will be nearly impossible to find. And it’s so expensive to list. It costs $9.95 for a month long classified listing!

The subcategory that eBay allows digital items to be listed under is “Everything Else/Information Products” which doesn’t even describe my item. I am selling a fiction book not a non-fiction.

Of course there are many, many people still posting their digital products as buy-it-now. So what do you do? Go against eBay’s terms and take the chance of getting caught? Or follow the rules and get cheated by all those who break them? My only course is to get more visitors to my listings, add more eBooks and hope that the numbers will eventually lead to big dollar numbers for me. For now I think I may end up loosing money.

Any advise?

My first eBook, Emma by Jane Austen, is available for sale on eBay.