How to offer eBook? Downloadable PDF? Kindle/Mac?

[Philip Marlowe]

Hey guys - I'm curious how some of you have offered your short ebooks through your website. I plan to charge for mine (likely $9.99-14.99) and for ease of access, I was hoping to offer it as a direct-download PDF. I'll also have a very short, free product that will be sent as a PDF I exchange for e-mails addresses.

I'm really learning as I go here and mostly doing it the hard way. I'm using MS Word instead of something like Scrivener, but will certainly hire-out the cover work and have a line-edit done and possibly format.

I realize this opens me up to the document to being shared or pirated, but it's not an major work like Unscripted and I doubt anyone coming to my site spends a lot of time pirating stuff (just a hunch based on my target audience).

Overtime, this particular ebook will be one that I mature into a larger work and eventually publish. I'd prefer not to give away too many details yet but it lends itself well to multiple editions and new content.

Any thoughts (maybe @Aaron T ?) This will be the first of 3-4 "cornerstone" ebooks on my website.

Thanks!

 

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[MattR82]

I read something the other day about some kind of watermark style thing that can be done, but it is more so to stop people from stealing your content an reselling it I believe.

Maybe a password protected pdf?

I'm currently writing an ebook at the moment as well. But as far as pirating goes, if they are going to pirate it, then they are not really the customers I'm looking for anyway.

 

[Philip Marlowe]

I like both of those ideas on the watermark and PW. And I agree - if you're searching the net to pirate my eBook, you're definitely not the long-term fan I was hoping to find.