I’ve certainly noticed a slow-down in my eBay business, so I decided to check on some of the other sellers I know generally do a pretty good business. Not so good for them, either. I only check on ebook sellers, so I’m not sure about folks who sell hard goods.

I kind of thought information products about getting started on internet selling might become more popular, but it isn’t so. I’ll just keep plugging away.

Being in the information product niche, I’m still fumbling around with how to do any substantive research on what folks are buying. Besides checking on the completed listings of folks I know are selling ebooks, I’ll often do an advanced search for completed listings for “ebay business” or “how to make money.” This also can add to the list of buyers I keep track of.

I’m continuing to add books to Kindle, but they’re taking an incredibly long time to get the listings added. Perhaps the book I recommended last time, Kindle Profits Exposed, sold so well and got so many people listing that we’ve gummed up the works.

I am experimenting with formatting for the Kindle listings. One format that’s accepted for uploading at the site is html. I use Nvu as my html editor and have found it to be very easy to insert a table of contents with only the chapter headings and sub-headings, as oppposed to having the page number included, which is pretty useless in the Kindle format. You need to designate the headings from the drop-down menu on the tool bar - heading 1, heading 2, etc., if you go that deep. Then simply insert your cursor above the beginning of your book, use the “insert” drop down and select table of contents. It’s pretty nifty, and I hope the Kindle formatting picks up the linkability. Unfortunately, I don’t yet have a Kindle myself to check it. Maybe at Christmas!

I bought Rob Benwell’s Blogging To The Bank 3.0 today. It would be nice to find ways to monetize this site. I’m going through it tonight and will give you my thoughts tomorrow.

Be well.

I have books listed on Amazon! Not books that I wrote, but books that I own the resell rights to. So far, it’s only a few of them, but that’s going to change quickly.

Want to know how I did it? I discovered Kindle, the mobile reader that Amazon has been marketing. I don’t own one myself yet, but I am listing books for others to buy and download from Amazon. Then Amazon will pay me.

Pretty nifty! And now I’m diversified.

I learned about this process because I’m on James Jones’ mailing list, and he sent me a video about how he’s making recurring income from Amazon, a video you can watch by clicking here. (James is a very creative and successful eBay seller.)

The program is called Kindle Profits Exposed, and I give it my highest recommendation. It’s from a woman named Rebecca Cooper, and she really knows her stuff. The package includes a clearly-written manual and 6 excellent videos, plus she’s included another book about listing with Mobi (which I haven’t even looked at yet).

So, I read the book, watched the videos, and started listing books! Once you get this information, you’ll be amazed at how simple Rebecca’s made the whole process. I really don’t think I could have figured it out very easily from Amazon’s own information; in fact, I tried navigating their information for a question I had and ended up frustrated.

I’ve talked before about all the books stored on my hard drive, many that I sell on eBay. However, I also have a goodly number of really good products that explicitly prohibit selling on auction sites. Now I’ve found a way to sell them without the need to put up hundreds of sales pages and trying to figure out how to drive traffic to them. Amazon’s traffic, after all, is mind boggling.

Adding Kindle listings to your business plan makes good sense, and now is a great time to do it. The holidays are right around the corner, and Kindles are going to be on a lot of folks’ gift lists. And it doesn’t hurt that Oprah recently announced Kindle is her new favorite thing!

Take a look at James’ video, look over the sales page, and see what you think. If you’re like me and just haven’t happened on that extra thing to add to your business, I think you’ll like this.

Stay well.