Some Internet Marketing Terminology explained...........What is an eBook?

What is an eBook?

‘eBook’ stands for electronic book (also known as digital book). It is called a digital product because it can be downloaded immediately after purchase and there are no shipping costs. It is basically a normal book but published in electronic format. Rather than reading words from a hard copy book, you read them from your computer, laptop or from devices called eBook readers such as Amazon’s Kindle. Apple calls its eBooks, iBooks.



 There are free eBooks available and the eBook market is expanding all the time. There are now millions of eBooks for sale on the web on thousands of different topics. An ebook is usually delivered to the buyer in PDF format (Portable Document Format). If you want an eBook at 3 o’clock in the morning, you can go on a website, buy one with your credit card or PayPal account and you can be reading it five minutes later. No queuing in the shops - great stuff. You just buy it online like you would buy a DVD of your favourite film. I love eBooks, but personally I print mine and read them from paper as I always need to make notes in the books I read.
eBook availability is crucial. Imagine you can’t sleep at night because you have excruciating pain in your left leg. You want a remedy NOW. You are browsing the web and see a picture that looks like a book and its title is “Proven remedies to stop pain in your left leg. Your pain can be gone in 5 minutes”. Click on the book and in all likelihood it will be an eBook that you can buy for between $15.00 and $47.00. Once bought, you can download it and your pain can be gone in five minutes.

Want to know another interesting thing about eBooks? Most of them have a 60-day guarantee, because a lot of them are registered with www.Clickbank.com (see a bit further) and Clickbank gives an automatic 60-day refund period – no questions asked. If you do not like the eBook about the leg remedy, you can ask for your money back – even if you have already read the book. That’s why it’s important to sell informative eBooks otherwise people will ask for a refund. People usually ask for a refund if they are not happy with what they bought. If they think that they received value for money, they are unlikely to ask for a refund.