The more I think it through the more I believe that eBay may want to mimmick Amazon and start up their own Digital Download Services.

Did you know that Amazon offers complete on demand publishing services through BookSurge and CustomerFlix?

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Amazon offer Free Self-Publishing plus On-Demand Distribution for Authors, Filmmakers and Musicians through CreateSpace.

CreateSpace is part of the Amazon group offering free self-publishing for books, DVDs, digital content, and CDs as well as on-demand distribution services.

You are now able to make your media available to millions via Amazon.com customers and through many other channels affiliated with the Amazon group.

Amazon has removed the expensive required inventory and mass production by utilizing CreateSpace production and shipping services for your product as customers order them.

This means stacks of inventory shelves, shipping and handling is not necessary.

The service is not free; however, it is a fraction of the traditional cost for such profecssional publishing capabilities.

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The services offered allow you to sell your own books, ebooks, videos, and DVD’s without inventory.

Amazon sales for their Kindle Device are strong. As a matter of fact, they are assertively in search of authors to provide content in blogs, articles, eBooks for their Kindle Wireless Reading Device.

Amazon advertises for ‘On-demand’ publishing. Amazon wants to publish books and DVDs for authors, filmmakers, publishers, studios and more.

These are some exciting times for digital or physical products on Amazon.

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Amazon has Self-Publishing Services by Booksurge

Amazon.com offers complete self-publishing and on-demand printing services through BookSurge, which is also a part of the Amazon.com group.

Additionally, Amazon is offering draft, editing illustration and printing services if you require. If your book subject matter is a ready-to-print finished file, they have the resources you need to get your book into distribution cost effectively and without the need for inventory.

These services allow you to sell your book or DVD without inventory, so you can start selling your work for much less than the publishing companies cost!

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Don’t miss looking into this exciting alternative to eBay..

I still believe eBay will shortly try to offer what Amazon so successfully has achieved.

Amazon is selling downloads, CD-ROMS, DVDS, and Kindle content almost faster than… you can imagine.

Sure, eBay’s 7-Day Discontinue Notice for selling Digital products was deplorable. However, it is giving you an opportunity to look into publishing your digital products in a different creative and professional style.

Check it out, you will be glad you did..

To Be Continued.

Kindest Regards, B. Robert

http://www.brendarobert.com
http://www.informationEworld.com
http://www.mysteryshoppersleuth.com
http://www.home-based-reps.com

If you happen to be a seller of info products, templates, eBooks or other type digital delivery items on eBay, this policy will affect you immediately.

Ebay’s announcement instructs Sellers to list Digital Delivery items in Category, [Everything Else], [Information Products] under [Classified Ad Format].

Those are straightforward instructions, if you can get it to work. It seems it works intermittently when testing and in reading others accounts.

eBay announced in early 2006 they were implementing an Auto Digital Delivery System for those selling and or offering digitally deliverable items. They even went so far as initially requiring payment via PayPal and Immediate Payment Only. That later was retracted due to conflicting processes. The fact remains that eBay will institute new procedures and policies, apparently, at the drop of a hat, with short-sighted-investigation into any actual reality of the policy and its effect on sellers as well as buyers.

I often wonder what qualifications Executives and Managerial Staff in Public or Private companies can own up to. Just how smart are they? eBay company and staff so many times reminds me of people sitting in rocking chairs. Always staying busy, but never going anywhere. Additionally, eBay jogs my memory of a tail wagging the dog instead of the dog wagging its tail!

Implementing a Digital Delivery System one year and then axing it the next with the lead time of a five day notice, surely, should represent and display a great deal of insight (could also be ‘incite’ because it inflames so many members);into eBay as a company.

The fact that eBay decided to implement new policy is not the real tribulation. What is so discouraging is the fact eBay gave such short notice to those reputable and long-standing members who have no part in any eBay shenanigans and policy manipulations.

What could have been eBay’s consideration to those that earn income to feed babies or put food on the family table; or for that matter of fact, senior citizens who pay utilities high-energy costs with the extra income earned from digital downloadable products?

Of course, there is always a work around; and, inevitably, there will be other alternatives when changes occur. This in reality is not as disastrous as when a tornado strikes without warning.

Frankly, an announcement with such major changes, in allowance for only five days notice, is not a realistic business action; At least, not by a highly regarded and community caring organization, in my humble opinion.

Stay tuned for some alternative action, you as a digital products seller can take immediately to prevent too much loss to income, as much as possibly feasible.

In the interim of my next post, where I will provide instructions to obtain your domain name, hosting space and learn the ins and outs for promoting and selling your digital products on the Internet ; stop by http://www.createEbooksEZ.com and read what products I am currently offering. I think you will find all that is included such as the software, tutorials and resources to be what you may be seeking to advance your Digital Products Business.

Kindest Regards, B. Robert

http://www.brendarobert.com
http://www.informationEworld.com
http://www.mysteryshoppersleuth.com
http://www.home-based-reps.com