Re: Neew low upfront cost ways to set up site to sell ebook.

From: "Ed"

> Hi, I would like to set up a site or store to sell an 
> ebook for
> download.  I need a hosting account, shopping cart, 
> merchant account,
> etc. The cost of building a site on my own to do this can 
> easily
> require an investment in the thousands and I do not want 
> to do this
> for an untested item.  Can anyone recommend a way to set 
> up a site and
> process orders without a large investment?
>
> Thanks, Ed
>

Ed,

Your best bet is to set up PayPal to take the money and 
deliver it to your bank account, and then choose from the 
many free scripts for a website. The best for a beginner may 
well be Wordpress, but you would need to learn a bit of html 
at least to adapt it. Better go for one that has a cart in 
it, like Mal's - though for one book a simple PayPal button 
might serve well enough. Paypal makes a small charge per 
transaction at its basic two levels, with no setup costs.

Cost to this point: a bit of your time.

Find a good low cost host - I think 34sp.com has a service 
in the US as well as in the UK. At the testing stage you 
should not need to lay out more that $40-$50.

If you really need some elementary instruction on coding and 
setting up a website start with the tutorials on About.com; 
costs nil. And then buy a SAMS or O'Reilly book.

For a domain name you can pay anything from around $5 to 
$1000 [more if you really, really want a sought after name 
and suffix].

That should get you up and running for under $100, and 
relatively painlessly. [An equivalent in the UK can be done 
for under £30 - book extra].

When your turnover hits $1m you can spend $20k on a web 
designer ;-).

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