BookOpps - eBook Downloads

eBooks, as you probably know, are electronic copies of printed books. eBooks can be downloaded and read immediately so there is no waiting for shipment. They certainly are cheaper than their printed copy. eBooks offer the convenience of size and portability in that you can store your own personal library of eBooks on your PC or your hand held device that you can take along.

BookOpps.com operates as a marketplace for buying and selling eBooks. Buyers can browse or search and buy eBooks for download. Authors or publishers or others can register and list their own eBooks to make it available for purchase and download. Both Audio Books and Reading Books are listed on the site.

Currently set-up for free listings, the site is ready to charge for listings as you may decide - single/multiple listings, subscription-based listings, featured listings etc. You can set and increase or decrease prices as necessary. Basically, others buy and sell and you collect the fees.

The Money That Can Be Made

To make the site popular, listings are free for the time being. Later it is intended to charge for each listing. Let’s say you decide to charge $10 per listing for 180 days. 100 listings per month (which is no figure at all considering the size of the market) will bring in $1,000 in a month; 500 listings will bring in $5,000; so on so forth. Depending on the exigencies of the market, you can increase or decrease the fee as needed. You can have featured listings and charge a higher price. This is set-up via Site Admin and can be changed anytime it is needed. While you can do your own permutations and combinations - pessimistic, realistic and optimistic - note that you can make this money with no overheads at all. All you pay is for hosting and renewal of the domain name.

To make money you must market your service. Initially you may need some effort to popularize the site. Once it starts getting popular, viral marketing will set in. The site, from there onwards, will market itself on its own. A comment and review system is built-in for visitors to leave reviews and comments for listed eBooks. It will go a long way in helping others decide about buying and creating free content at no cost.

Site’s Special Features

Built using PHP scripting with a powerful MySQL database, the site is totally manageable from a browser based Admin Panel. You can manage users, listings, configuration of the site - all from your web browser.

Payment processing can be via PayPal.com or 2CheckOut.com or another processor. You set the minimum amount a user should pay and once the payment is received, corresponding credit(s) get reflected in the user’s account via the automated payment gateway. If you decide to charge $10 for a listing, the minimum a user must pay is $10. He/She may pay a higher amount for listing multiple items and may decide to pay $30 or $50. Corresponding credits, as per payment, is updated in their account for 3 or 5 listings.

The period for which a listing can remain on the site can be set from the Admin Panel. You may set a uniform period for all listings or let users choose the period for which they would like to list. You can also charge for listings based on how long they are to remain on the site.

Users have their own control panel from where they can manage their listings. Users can add new listings, modify existing ones and delete the ones that are not required.

BookOpps.com - Domain Name

BookOpps stands for Book Opportunities. The site provides authors and publishers the opportunity to list and sell their eBooks and to visitors the opportunity to browse or search and buy eBooks. Short, highly relevant, easily remembered and brandable domain, would be worth in 4-figures for the name alone.