Hi Paul! Great to see you again!

Yes, an eBook is a fantastic choice and it’s no wonder why it’s one of the most common first products that bloggers release. It was my first product as well and although I do prefer publishing courses now over eBooks, I do have a fondness for that particular type of product.

Hey Enstine! Thanks for stopping by.

That’s awesome, I look forward to hearing more about your course as its developed. If there’s ever anything I can do to help you out just let me know – I’ve published quite a few of them now and have learned a lot in the process.

Happy weekend to you as well! Thanks Enstine!

Hi Kaushal! Thank you for visiting!

You’re right, product development isn’t easy but it also doesn’t have to be difficult. It’s great to hear you’re already doing freelance work, perhaps by adding another thing from the list you’ll be able to make even more from the customers and audience you already have.

Thank you again and hope to talk more soon!

Hi Joy!

Sorry to hear about the Kindle experience. I’ve published a lot of books on Kindle that have gotten similar reviews – not sure what people are expecting to get for $2.99 or less honestly.

People go in with too high of expectations, it’s silly. Even if you had just straight copied the text and put it all in one place, if the book is comprehensive enough, the time savings alone from curating the content is worth the price in my eyes.
Of course, not advocating copying or anything, but you get my point. Knowing you, I’m sure whatever you put out was well worth whatever you were asking for it and honestly, you had every right to try and upsell or promote another product.

But, this is the internet and we have to let people state their opinion, even when their opinion is a little far-fetched. No joke, I had a book lose its bestseller placement in its category on Kindle because a person left a 1 star review saying it was teaching ‘black magick’.

If the bulk of the money will be in the affiliate commissions, I’d go there – although you may want to recheck Amazon’s policies on this, they’ve gotten stricter with the requirements of promotional materials inside of books in recent years.

Thanks for stopping by Joy, it’s always a pleasure!

Maybe an ebook 😉

Quite seriously I enjoyed listening and reading the text with you made. As I’m currently working on my next product, a course, I feel so excited having to learn something new to help with it going live.

Let’s keep giving bro and happy weekend to you.

Oh my goodness have you touched a raw nerve in me with that post 🙁

TWO part-finished ebooks pending “somewhere”. I hang my head in shame. You’re right, I am a perfectionist and I shouldn’t be.

However, another thing that’s held me back from publishing is that, once before I put a 50 page ebook on Kindle – VERY low price – that linked to my website which sold something. One reader left me an awful review saying my book was nothing more than a glorified sales pitch and I’d just copied everything from the Internet.

While it’s true it linked to my sales page, the idea was to give people information on the very scientific product I was selling. I had not COPIED anything from the Internet, I had referred to and para-phrased science based information that I had learned on a 3-year course I took. There was no way I could have “discovered” that information as I’m not a scientist and I didn’t pretend I had discovered it. I think I even offered a refund of the book price if they purchased the product. For various unrelated reasons I no longer sell that product anyway, so I removed the book from Kindle.

Sadly at the time I didn’t spot the review so didn’t reply to it – but certainly sales dried up for some reason and that was probably why.

So… at the moment my ebook is free and promotes a product (or it will do in a few minutes LOL). Putting it on Amazon would give it the traffic I need, but do I put it on there free and hope for affiliate sales, or put it on at a low price and risk the same type of review again!!

And that’s why my ebook is still sitting on my hard drive unpublished.

Joy Healey – Blogging After Dark