Discover Affordable Ebook Cover Design, Set-Up & Interface

The first thing that catches your customer's eyes is the cover of your ebook.  It must reflect the themes and content of you book on first glance.  We create attractive and highly affordable ebook cover designs to generate impact to your ebook, giving it a highly professional look; together with the creation of a professional user-friendly interface for easy navigation and reading.

Ebook Cover Design

Having a good cover design attracts the reader to want to open the book, and gives a digital product a ‘physical' appearance.  We specialize in creating affordable ebook cover designs.

A professional looking ebook looks like a real open book with a "Table of Contents" and "Foreword" set up with graphic navigational arrows. An interface is what you see when you look at your monitor: the collection of words, pictures, buttons, menus, and other stuff that lets you do things. The interface is also sometimes referred to as the graphic user interface, which is shortened to GUI and pronounced "gooey".

Add Security Features

If you choose executable (.exe) file format for your ebook, you can use Digital Rights Management software (DRM) to protect ebooks, enabling security features to prevent to prevent theft and disable ebooks.

Features such as requiring registration by user ID and password, and ‘permissions' such as no printing, no changing the documents, no content copying or extraction, etc, can be activated.

One of the biggest issues with ebook publishing is the fact that people can ask for a refund but they can't send the book back. All you can hope for is that they delete your ebook - chances are most don't. If you have asked people to register the book when they first open it, you can de-activate their username and password if they ask for a refund - or if you discover that they never paid for it in the first place.  

Tracking

With the right software you can also track what is happening with your ebook. You can see how often it is being opened on a daily or monthly basis. It will also log the IP address of the person viewing the ebook.

Preparing the ebook for download

You should offer both a compressed and an uncompressed version of your ebook on the download page. This will enable a quicker download for those customers who have WinZip and are familiar with it, whilst others have the option of downloading the larger file.

NOTE: If you're selling an ebook with resale rights that includes a sales page, images, and so on, then you'll need to package the whole lot into one downloadable ZIP file.

 For more information, read our Ebook Compression article.

Scan for a virus

Don't risk spreading a virus to your customers through your ebook. Before you send it online for others to download, it's imperative that you run a virus-scan on it. Make sure that you use up-to-date virus scanning software.

Transfer the files to your website

Now that your download files are ready, you need to send them online to your web host's server by sending the ebook's EXE and/or Zip files (2 files if you're offering a zipped and unzipped version) up to your website where they can be accessed by your customers.

 For more information read Ebook Transfer  

Payment Systems and Automatic Download Facilities

You will need to setup your transaction system for automated customer follow up. You will need to accept credit-card payment for your ebook and then automatically deliver it once payment is complete.

If you already have an online merchant account, you can set up payment for your ebook using this method. However, you can sell ebooks from various Third Party Processors, such as Clickbank or Paypal.

 To find out more, see our Third Party Processors article.

Automatically delivering your ebook

Once your customers have paid for your ebook with an attractive cover design, they'll be directed to a page on your website where you thank them for their order and give them the ebook they've just ordered. This is the 'delivery' side of the ecommerce setup.

Depending on which third-party processor (or other ecommerce system) you use, there may be different requirements for the exact content of this page.

 To learn more, read our article Automatically Delivering your Ebook .

Virtual Marketing with your ebook

A great way to provide a viral marketing tool is to provide a branding facility as part of the purchase package. This allows people to brand your ebook with their own links. For example, you could create a sample of your ebook which your affiliates can give away - with their affiliate link included. This is an excellent form of promotion. Use our affordable ebook cover designs to draw more visitors to your website, increase sales and generate more commission for your affiliates.

Follow up with Email Marketing

Whether you are giving away your ebook, selling it with or without re-sell rights of any description, remember to have a systematic sales process ready to follow up your customers, if you have adopted a double opt-in email policy to build a mailing list.

People who have received or purchased something from you are interested in your information, products or services, and are your best prospects for further sales. To learn more about this, read these pages:-

Direct Opt-In Email
Email Marketing
Email Marketing Campaigns
Sequential Designer Emails for Automatic Responders