Newbie with questions about selling ebooks

[Anlina]

Hi,

I apologize if this has already been answered here.

Is there a way (possibly using Xflip) that I can put my books on my commercial website, allow viewers to read them
online and purchase the right to personalize them, and email them to other people? I obviously want the buyers and the recipients to be able to read them, without needing any special software.

Thanks in advance!

[vikkymax]

That would entail a lot of hardwork, putting up entire book to be read online.Since you do want any special ebook display software,i think you either would need to store entire book in the database(if that is possible) and then display them dynamically as html web pages or painstakingly create html webpage manually for the ebook.

[Librum]

Try this: Create the flipalbum, create the cd, then zip up the four portions. FlipAlbumCD and MacCDViewer directories, the Autorun, and the startCD into a single zip file. Put this online to download.

This way the customer gets a tight downloadable package, the customer can run the ebook with no other add-ons, and demo versions are still possible if you make those settings in the create the cd process (number of days, number of openings, encryption, etc.)

This is how we do it.

The user can grab the 'demo' zip. It is set as encrypted, and sixty days from opening. On the first page, the customer is reminded of the url to return to, and that he can buy the direct downloadable purchaseable work at $5 on our site. The purchaseable download is built exactly the same way, but with no demo settings set. And the customer can also buy 'grab bag' disks of works, again using the create cd, but adding multiple works. We are at nineteen DVD disks now.

We *did* use xflip, and for small works, it is a great product. But many of our works 'broke' xflip's memory function.

Sarah
of the Librum.
http://www.librum.us