Using free eBooks to attract readers (to your blog)

ProBlogger - How To Get Free Books To Give Away On Your Blog

“One of the most successful ways to bring in new subscribers to your blog is to give away a bonus when people sign up.

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If you’re like most people, you haven’t had time to write a great book to give away as a sign-up bonus. Well, today I’m going to show you two very easy ways to get such a book:

• Create your own with an e-book template
• Use someone else’s book that is in the public domain (you’d be amazed how many great books are out there for free!)

Create Your Own eBook In 48 Hours With An E-book Template

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Second Option: Get Free Books To Give Away!

The second, and perhaps easier, method is to use a book that someone else has already written.

There are an amazing number of books in the public domain (and also under the creative commons license, more on this later) which you can give away on your site. For example, in my niche of entrepreneurship, I paid good money for three books years ago that I heard were excellent: Think and Grow Rich, The Richest Man In Babylon, and The Way To Wealth.

Imagine how surprised I was to discover that all three of these books were now available online for free!

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While I actually don’t care (much) to “attract” more subscribers/readers to my blog (as I’d blog the same stuff with 1 reader or 10,000, blogging about stuff I just find cool, and if others think it’s cool too… well… cool! ;) I DO like free eBooks.

Also I’ve been thinking of doing an eBook on “something”. Not sure what, but I’d like to author something development related both as a means toward giving back and professional advancement (and maybe one day, MVP status ;) so the eBook templates caught my eye.

(via Jason Haley - Interesting Finds: October 5, 2008)