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Re: I would also like to understand this...

Posted By: Jason <cndle4@yahoo.com>
Thursday, 13 July 2006, at 11:08 a.m.

In Response To: Re: I would also like to understand this... (Mr Bluto ^_^)

> Resale rights are sold because the author wants to get a viral marketing
> effect from the ebook. Sometimes they don't even sell the resale rights,
> they just give them away to anyone and everyone.
I understand that part, however, in such a case the person wouln't be asking for help in stopping the distribution of said material.

> So if I write and ebook and my absolute main objective is to get traffic
> to my site from the links in the ebook or to sell a back end product(s),
> then I, as an author, can write an ebook and let people resell it/give it
> away.

> Make sense?

Again, understood.
I guess I sould have been more clear.
I tried to point out in my post that it was Steves info and know how that contained the value in this work and that it was not a viral marketing technique to sell other products.

> I find that most ebooks that have resale right available are usually not
> very rich in valuable information. They are basically large ads for
> websites/products. That's why so many ebooks have unconditional money back
> guarantees. The point is not so much to make money from the sale of the
> ebook but rather to make money from traffic generated from the ebook or
> from the sale of other products mentioned in the ebook.

> The more valuable the info in the ebook is the higher the resale rights
> will cost and the more restrictions there will be. The less valuable the
> actual info in the ebook is the less the resale rights will cost and the
> less restrictions it will have, if any at all.
So I guess for $97 it would be safe to assume that Steves values the content vs. the appeal of a viral marketing technique to get the report seen by as many eye balls as possible.
The next logical question for Steve is , assuming that he sold her the report with resale rights...... (possibly not a fair to assume this)

Does it state anywhere in the agreement that they, the purchaser of resale rights, cannot change the info in in way, including format and price?
If so, I am no expert in the exchange of written works, but I would assume that you couldn't, insert a fixed price as that would be open to more litigation.

Bringing me back to my main question....
which is simply,
Why offer re-sale rights?
In this case, it seems the value is within the contents of the work for reasons pointed out above. I do not see why a person would call a foul for such a distribution if the works intent was to simply be seen by as many people as possible.
Thanks,
Jason

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