Buying E-Books
August 11th, 2008 by Scot, under Informational Products. 11 Comments
I’m a firm believer that there is always something to be learned from an e-book. Unfortunately that “something” is not always worth paying for.
Tonight I headed over to the DigitalPoint Forums to pick up a few e-books, just to see if anything new was out. If you’re not as honorable and up-standing as I, the best way to buy an e-book is to find someone in the thread who has purchased the book and PM them for a discounted rate for “their” copy.
I was shocked at what kind of crap is being sold in the form of an e-book. These are essentially one blog post rolled into a few pages with print-to-PDF. These guys are then getting their buddies to write good reviews on the books and it goes from there.
I got ripped off by a 12 year old
You ever feel like you’ve just got done reading something written by a 12 year-old who has just opened their first Clickbank account? That’s what I’m feeling right now.
The brightest idea (yeah, the brightest) came from a 2 page e-book (one page discussed how to sign up for an affiliate program) which is being sold for $35+ that suggests you pay someone to fill leads for you and drive dirty traffic to make the conversion look normal. WOW! Brilliant! The book said I couldn’t resell that information, so I’ve got to be careful not to reveal any further details (hint: there are none).
I have gotten an incredible amount of information from E-Books such as Aaron Wall’s SEO book, RichJerk, and a few others. Don’t get me wrong, there are good ones out there. Just not on Digital Point.
Are you an E-Junkie?
Do you buy e-books often? Ever been ripped off by a 12 year-old with stupid ideas? Let’s have a talk… Leave me a comment!
I prefer not to buy e-books. Most of them are crap anyways. I read John Chows FREE e-book and got just as much out of it as I would the paid ones.
Plus… that’s what pirates bay is for.
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Chow has some good info in his book as well. Definitely worth the time it takes to scan through it.
Pirates Bay is good for unethical e-book downloading which I would never participate in!
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I have read many of them (I have only bough a couple though) and I have to say that 99% are crap. John Cow’s is one of the best. Same goes for Yaro Starak’s Profits Blueprint. And they are both free.
What I don’t really like is using unethical ways to make money….like fooling people into believing something which is not true. I don’t like pr0n / adult stuff either.
Both top choices, I must say.
Fooling me into buying an e-book which was written by a 12 year old is what I don’t like :). Ah well!
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Hey now… easy on the adult stuff! Seriously though, I know this is crap on ebooks day, but I offer a refund to anyone not satisfied with my ebook. That, I think, is the difference. If you can provide some value you should get paid for it.
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Offering a refund is a good way to guarantee satisfaction.. not many marketers are willing to do this because they know once they get your money they’re out of there, lol.
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By the way send the link over I’ll pick up a copy.
– Scot
Scots last blog post..Buying E-Books
well, i don’t buy ebooks because i will for sure find free info about what i want. Although i admit i might write an ebook in a near future that will be paid….
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Free info will always be out there, it’s the idea of buying secret advice or a tip that you don’t have to scour for hours to find that makes me buy e-books from time to time.
Let me know when your book is out and I will try out a copy
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Scot, thanks for visiting and commenting on my blog…
here is the link to my order page.
http://www.sellpornmakemoney.com/order.php
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I used to be an e-junkie, and I will still buy the odd ebook but generally I find they contain they same old stuff all the other ebooks I own do. Therefore I realised that either I already knew when I needed to do, or they weren’t revealing the secret anyway. Either way, I now focus as much of my time on implementation than on “learning” and have got far better results.
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