Product Versus eBooks

Which one works better for you?

[anand84]

In other words, I want to know which one has worked better for you personally? CJ/Shareasale or Clickbank.

I am wary about using CB(though the payouts are good) primarily because most ebooks I have purchased are crap and I do not want my visitors to stop trusting products I endorse.

[ergophobe]

You could just buy a copy and evaluate it. If you don't like it, don't recommend it. You have a 30-day return on CB products I think, so the main loss is your time and effort (not insignificant, I know).

>>are crap

I've purchased very few ebooks (have I actually purchased any?). In any case, I've read some ebooks that were once sold and then at then end of their life cycle given away for free. Others have always been free (some of Seth Godin's books). Some have been really good I must say.

That said, it seems like ebooks are commonly priced really high for what you get, as in $97 for a book that would sell in a print edition for no more than $27 -- who prices a trade paperback at $97 for a 120 page book?.

I think it has to do with the economics of ebooks in that most of them are sold by affiliates who want at least $20 per sale, which means a $40 book at 50% commission (which is I think typical in ebook publishing). So pricing is driven higher by affiliates.

In print, pricing is driven lower by retailers who know they can't sell a $97 paperback on "77 tips to get your dog to stop peeing on the carpet" or "Shed pounds with revoltionary colon cleansing diet".

So print books tend to be priced based on costs of production at least to some extent and within that constraint, priced to maximize sales, while ebooks are priced to maximize revenue, not sales.