Sample eBooks Using the tEarn Ad Network





Changing eBook publishing

The tEarn Ad Network will change the eBook publishing industry.

- tEarn inserts Ads on every link in a book
- Vistors click on links (Chapters)
- tEarn insets Ad and prefetches next chapter of book
- Uncluttered, rich media Ad delivered
- Visitor continues to next chapter in book

- The Visitor gets to read the book for free.
- The Author gets paid for delivering rich Ads for each chapter read.

Here are examples of eBooks created on Blogger utilizing the tEarn Ad Network
  • Knots, Splices and Rope Work - by A. Hyatt Verrill
  • Pride and Prejudice - by Jane Austen
  • Mansfield Park - by Jane Austen
    Go to tEarn :
  • Ady.tEarn.com


  • eBook, Self-Publishing, Starving Writers Gain Ad-Supported ePublishing

    eBook, self-publishing, on-demand publishing - these ideas have been proposed for a dozen years.

    Rather than sell books, can an author earn enough from advertising to compensate his/her sweat equity?

    The Writing Ecosystem

    Ten years ago, BLOSM (i.e. By the Light of the Silvery Moon) analyzed the book publishing funnel. In rough figures, 10 million authors have the ability and would like to be published. 100,000 get published each year. 1,000 make more than $10,000 per book. The rest earn a small advance.

    The ecosystem fails authors, publishers, and the reading public. Only book retailers, with full rights to return unsold books, benefit.

    How the Internet Changed Writing

    Today, the publishing business is still centric around selling a bound volume. Internet success stories include:
    • Amazon extended the life of Long-Tail books through on-demand publishing and a huge inventory of titles.
    • Amazon has gained traction with the Kindle. Sony has had some success with their eBook reader.
    • Bloggers have gained fans and tested ideas through their blog; and won publishing contracts as a result. Problogger has reported on his and other successes as a book author.
    • Hundreds of top writers have blogs - to extend the marketing of their works beyond the publisher efforts.
    • Thousands of great writers have published online, gaining millions of fans. But, at eCPM of $1.00 or less from CPC ads, these popular writers have not been able to sustain via advertising alone.
    BTW, ebook is green. We save trees; gasoline to drive to the library or the book store; the massive waste to move books from forests, to print shops, warehouses, retailers, and a home; and equal waste to recycle or dispose of old books. If you prefer the form factor of a book, for the sake of the environment, buy an iPhone or an eReader.

    The Ad-Supported Book Model

    An author and his friends approached tEarn with the idea for ad-supported books. Rather than ads that clutter the pages of his work, exitmercials appear between the chapters of a work. Sample works online include the classic works of Jane Austen and some non-fictional works.

    We extended our exitmerical features to support the effort. This includes better display on an iPhone as an eBook reader (i.e. 10 million and growing) and large screen TV's (i.e. 26% of home users) where one can read while sitting in the comfort of a couch.
    • At estimated mature value of $0.30 per adpack view and a 10 chapter book, we estimate that each reader is worth $3.00 gross. This beats the royalties of less than $1.00 earned through book publishing.
    • With just a few thousand readers, success of the model beats the advances available through publishing. Thus, niche non-fiction and fictional works can benefit - without print.
    • Further, the model scales. Works can become best-sellers scaling through the Internet to reach millions of fans. Low-friction access to content requires no credit-card commerce. Great works can be supported solely by advertising revenues.
    Can Exitmercials Support Starving Writers

    Can high eCPM exitmercials support starving writers?

    We're monitoring the results with this group of authors. Success brings benefits to both readers and writers without friction. Let's wish all the best.

    Thursday, October 16, 2008

    How to Copyright a Novel

    By Brooke Hart

    It is important to protect your work before you have it published, either through your own efforts or through a publishing company. After all, you will want to make sure that you can claim it as your own! This article help you learn how to copyright your novel as well as take the first step towards publishing it.

    Read article: How to Copyright a Novel

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