Are you unsure about where to sell your eBooks?
Selling ebooks online has become easier with the availability of numerous platforms. This article focuses on the top platforms for selling ebooks, which also offer the option to sell directly from your own website and retain the entire profit.
Some platforms provide a built-in audience while deducting a portion of your earnings.
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1. Sellfy
Sellfy provides an ideal ecommerce platform for the online sale of ebooks. By utilizing Sellfy, you have the ability to establish your own digital storefront and initiate the sale of ebooks, POD merchandise, and various other products.
For beginners in the field of authorship seeking a simple method to independently publish their work, Sellfy is an exceptionally user-friendly ecommerce platform. Creating your initial online store requires only a few clicks.
After completing the setup process, you have the ability to personalize the appearance of your store, include items for sale, and establish your preferred payment methods. Sellfy allows you to sell a wide range of merchandise, such as digital products like ebooks, subscriptions, and even print-on-demand items.
After your book is published and sales begin, you have the option to utilize Facebook and Twitter tracking pixels for monitoring paid ad campaigns. Alternatively, you can employ Sellfy analytics to assess the performance of your online store or integrate a third-party analytics tool like Google Analytics. Additionally, Sellfy offers built-in email marketing capabilities.
Sellfy has useful features that aid in maintaining the security of your customers and products. By utilizing features such as limited downloads, you can prevent buyers from unlawfully sharing your books. Additionally, you have the option to accept secure payments through PayPal or Stripe.
Sellfy is perfect for solopreneurs and burgeoning authors because it enables them to sell their digital products without incurring any transaction fees whatsoever.
The cost of goods or services being offered.
Paid plans are available starting at $19 per month.
2. Podia
Podia is a comprehensive platform for sales and marketing, providing convenience in selling not only ebooks but also various other digital products.
For entrepreneurs who want to start selling digital products, the platform is an ideal choice. With Podia, you can conveniently establish your own ecommerce store and enjoy immense flexibility in selecting the products you want to sell.
Podia’s features include built-in webinar and online course functionalities, enabling you to sell a variety of downloadable products such as ebooks, templates and presets, audio files, and other items.
Podia has the added benefit of providing numerous marketing features right from the start. In one convenient location, you can handle email marketing campaigns, messaging, embeds, and even affiliate programs.
Thanks to Podia’s wide selection of optimized templates, designing and customizing your online store is also extremely easy. Podia is an intuitive and full-featured platform that is perfect for businesses looking to sell a diverse range of digital products.
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Starting at $33/month, the Podia Mover plan allows for the unlimited creation of webinars, courses, and downloadable products. For those who prefer a free plan, Podia offers one product with 8% transaction fees, which includes features such as their website builder, community, and email marketing.
Additionally, Podia provides a 14-day trial period free of charge.
3. Payhip
Payhip is a convenient ecommerce solution for online eBook sales. This user-friendly tool is ideal for beginners as it enables the creation of an appealing and professional online store within minutes. After setting up the store, you can easily customize it and add your eBooks or other digital products for selling purposes. Furthermore, Payhip offers the option to sell various other items including online courses and digital memberships.
Payhip offers a variety of advantageous sales features, which include Pay-what-you-want pricing, coupons, and affiliate marketing choices. These features greatly simplify the process of enhancing conversions and escalating sales.
In order to start accepting payments, you will be required to create an account with PayPal or Stripe, as Payhip utilizes these platforms for payment management. Depending on the plan you select, transaction fees ranging from 0-5% will be levied, in addition to the standard transaction fees imposed by PayPal or Stripe. All in all, Payhip provides a straightforward and cost-effective solution for selling ebooks on the internet.
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Payhip provides a perpetual no-cost plan; however, it imposes a transaction fee of 5% on sales. On the other hand, the Pro plan commences at $99 per month and absolves users from transaction fees entirely.
4. Gumroad
Gumroad provides bloggers, authors, and writers with an ideal platform to directly sell their products, such as eBooks, to customers. It allows the sale of various digital items, including subscriptions, license keys, and pre-orders. Additionally, physical products can be sold, while discount codes or promotions can also be offered.
List of features:
- Sell anything from digital products to physical goods, subscriptions, pre-orders etc
- You can sell multiple versions of a product where your customers can pick between a PDF, ePub or Mobi version of your ebook
- Free plan is available (but the transaction fee is a bit high at 8.5% on each sale)
- All major credits cards are accepted including Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, Diners Club, and JCB
- PayPal is also integrated to accept payments from your customers
- Easily import your existing email list
- Easily offer discount codes on your products
There are two available options: free and premium plans are offered. With the free plan, you will be charged a fee of only 8.5% + $0.30 per sale. On the other hand, Gumroad’s premium plan starts at $10 per month (or $108 if paid annually) with a fee of 3.5% + $0.30 per sale.
5. Razorpay
Razorpay provides a wide range of beneficial tools for accepting payments from your customers. You have the convenience of generating payment links, selling subscription plans with recurring transactions, and providing invoices to customers who buy digital products like eBooks from you.
List of features:
- You can add payment gateways to your website or app seamlessly
- You can create custom payment pages
- You can share payment links via an email, SMS, messenger, chatbot etc and get paid instantly
- You can easily create subscription plans with automated recurring transactions
- Offers you 100+ payment modes including Credit/Debit cards, Netbanking, UPI, Wallets etc
- Excellent customer support as they are always available through email, phone and chat
- You can access all the data in real-time including customer insights on your Razorpay Dashboard
The details of the commission are as follows.
- 2% per transaction on Indian Credit Cards, Indian Debit Cards, Net Banking from 58 Banks, UPI, Wallets including Freecharge, Mobikwik etc.
- 3% per transaction on Diners and Amex Cards, International Cards, EMI
- There’s no setup fee and annual maintenance fee.
6. Instamojo
Instamojo is currently being used by over 1 million Indian businesses with 10+ million customers. If your primary focus is on selling eBooks to Indian customers, Instamojo offers an excellent platform for you. We ourselves utilize this platform for selling our eBooks.
List of features:
- Gives you access to over 100 payment modes
- You can track sales data in real-time, get customer insights and easily analyse payment gateway analytics
- Gives access to their exclusive App Store where you can find a ton of helpful addons that can help you with better conversions
- You can easily create discount codes
- You can create an affiliate program for your products to attract more sales
- Instant payouts facility is available
The following are the pricing details for Instamojo.
- 2% per transaction on Debit Cards/Credit Cards, Netbanking, Wallets and UPI
- 5% per transaction on digital products and files (such as eBooks)
- There are no setup fees and maintenance charges
7. Amazon kindle
Without a doubt, Amazon is the ultimate platform for selling eBooks online. With a vast customer base spanning the globe, if your eBook contains remarkable content, it will effortlessly garner sales due to Amazon’s unparalleled reach to an unimaginable number of individuals worldwide.
In order to begin, the first thing you need to do is establish a KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) account with Amazon. You can initiate the process and have your book available in Kindle stores worldwide within 24 to 48 hours by accessing the following link.
List of features:
- Access to millions of readers worldwide as Amazon is a HUGE marketplace for eBooks
- You can earn up to 70% royalty on sales to customers in the US, Canada, UK, Germany, India, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, Brazil, Mexico, Australia etc
- You are permitted to offer your book for free for five days (which allows you to get more 5 star ratings from your existing network such as blog followers, email lists etc)
Amazon, like other bookselling platforms mentioned, does not require any payment for publishing your eBook on their Kindle publishing platform. However, they do take a percentage from each book sold.
You are provided with two royalty options by the self-publishing service offered by Amazon Kindle.
- One is 35% and the other is 70%.
- For a 70% royalty option, your eBook must be priced between $2.99 and $9.99. If your eBook is priced above or below that amount, you will need to pick the 35% royalty option.
Amazon begins payment of royalties 60 days following the initial sale.
8. Cashfree
Cashfree, incubated by Paypal and backed by Y Combinator, is a payment gateway utilized by more than 50,000 Indian and international businesses for collecting and disbursing payments through numerous payment methods.
Similar to Instamojo, Cashfree allows easy selling of eBooks, especially for Indian customers. Additionally, you can upload a file or an API to send money to any bank account, UPI address, or PayTM wallet.
List of features:
- You can easily collect local and international payments with a simple integration
- Offers on-demand payouts so you can disburse bulk payments instantly
- Offers a ton of payment methods including Visa, MasterCard, Rupay, UPI, IMPS, NEFT, Paytm & other wallets, Pay Later and EMI options
- You can offer instant refunds to your customers
- You can also add subscription based payments
- You can automatically track your customer payments with virtual bank accounts
Here are the payment gateway charges collected by Cashfree.
- 1.75% per transaction (on Indian credit cards and debit cards, including UPI payments such as Google Pay, PhonePe, Amazon Pay etc)
- 2.5% per transaction (on Pay Later options and EMI cards)
- 3.5% per transaction (on International credit and debit cards)
- Zero Setup Fee and Zero Maintenance fee
