If you have been writing articles for some time on a variety of topics, you might try writing e-books. The good thing about selling e-books is that you won’t have any shipping costs to pass on to prospective buyer. You are selling exactly the ideas contain in your e-book. Salable information usually deals with topics that are related to health and relationships, topics which almost anybody has something to say.
Just like its printed version, e-books fall into the area of intellectual property rights and are therefore protected by copyrights. If you ever want to sell or re-sell e-books, there are the things you need to know:
1. Standard re-print rights
Reprint rights are merely agreement between the author and the person who intends to sell the eBooks granting the person right to distribute the book of the former. It gives you the right to sell the product and all the proceeds generated from the sale. However, you can not give the same right to your buyer.
2. Non-Transferable re-sale rights
It is the same with standard re-print rights, you get to sell the product as your own, keep all the proceeds, pass all the re-print rights to your customer but your customer will not be able to pass the re-print rights to their subsequent buyer.
3. Full re-sale rights
As the term implies, this gives you, your customer and their customer the right to resale or re-print the product and keep all the profits.
4. Private label rights
This is the most expensive of all type of rights for sale because this gives you unimpeded right to change or alter the product to suit you. This is especially useful if you are thinking of improving the existing product and making it your own to complement existing products.
I really think that it is possible to make money out of selling ideas, or selling re-prints rights. The key is choosing well those re-print rights that are worth buying in order to recover your initial investment and most importantly earn from those passively for a long period of time.
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