E-Book Website

We are going to describe websites that can be used to sell almost any downloadable product: clip art, software, photos, ebooks etc.

The site is useful for visitors or customers with a common interest. For example the site can be used to publish pencil sketches. In this way people could buy books and also interact with others who have the same interest. The site has been designed for electronic downloadable books but there are plenty of other uses. In fact, almost anything that can be downloaded can be sold using this site. We can also customize this site to suit your exact needs including other product sales that are not downloadable (coffee, spices, jewelry, furniture, clothes, etc.)

Business Model

Let's describe what the strategy behind developing such a website is.

The sources of income are:

• Book sales
• Membership

The user will be able to go to the site and easily find and purchase what he/she wants. They will come to the site looking for a product or information and they will be able to download and read valuable info or write a comment.

The site is designed with the search engines in mind. This will facilitate the marketing of the products online.

Membership
There is a membership program that will give advantages to some people. Members will get ranked according to their activity. This ranking can show up on the homepage so the person can see where he/she ranks among all the visitors.

Downloads
Once the product has been purchased the buyer will get a password and will be able to download the product.

Navigation
The homepage will fit the visitor interests. This will happen after he/she has interacted with the site. The information about the customer should come from

• Sales of products
• Questionnaire they completed at the time of membership
• Comments they make to the site.

The categories of books are on the site like that of Amazon. This will allow people to see all the categories In addition to this feature there is also a place on the home page that shows the most popular books in terms of sales and the hottest books based on number of comments. All these features are designed to make it easy for the customer to find quality items.

Reviews
The product reviews will have a star rating like that of Amazon. The average review among all the reviews will be calculates and the best products will be placed at the top.. Each review will be open for discussion so that visitors to the site will be able post comments or questions about any book or product.

Accounting
The site will produce reports and keep track of the number of sales per member, author and book.

Please Contact Us if you would wish to have more information about creating an e-book website.