This is a product review on Enhanced eBook Profit Secrets, another product in our review series.
Enhanced eBook Profit Secrets is a guide to making profitable eBooks using Microsoft Word and/or Open Office; it’s for people who are looking to sell PDFs.
What our first reviewer had to say:
Barbara ling has written about 40 information products. The focus of this one is “How to Make the Most Profitable ebook Imaginable”. The author also writes that the sort of book she intends to help the reader produce is a high quality one that makes learning easy for the customer and make s the writer money (my wording).
There are 47 pages, covering what the author believes are seven of the best secrets.
The ebook is delivered as two reports. One is in Microsoft Word format and the other is in Oracle’s free Open Office format. Both versions were produced with Open Office Writer.
Some of the suggestions were designed to add the potential for more profit for you as the author (and are used by Barbara Ling in this book so you can judge whether you like them and will use them) and some were meant to make the ebook more readable.
The numbering of the pages is a bit confusing. For instance, the tenth page, where the practical material starts, is numbered in the footer as page 2. This is something which happens with a lot of PDF’s.
The style is unique; light and chatty. I don’t mind it but felt that some of the points were a bit harder to follow because of it.
The book needs some revision. An example is page 18 of the Open office version where the graphic covers up some of the instructional text.
Some points seem incomplete.
For instance:
On page 5, the author says to look at a certain page and, “You should see” but what you should see is not detailed.
On page 28 of both versions of the report, the example is incomplete and the part which the author refers to in the text below it is missing from the example as shown.
A statement like “Quick, now look at, oh I don’t know, the page that …..” is a bit strange in an instructional book. It’s like the book was not fully checked before release or, maybe, it’s just the author’s style. But, it’s not helpful.
The author says, “The more professional your book comes across, the more confidence the readers will have in buying your future products”.
I agree with that comment.
The use of a picture of a key to indicate especially important information is overdone. The contents of some highlighted areas were not special or were repeated information where the earlier appearance had already been highlighted with the key picture.
The header and Footer instructions seem to be missing some minor details which the reader should have no trouble working out themselves but they should have been included.
This is not a deal-breaker in my opinion, but it is a common occurrence, and I think it will annoy readers because their work won’t reflect the results which the author shows unless the reader figures out and does the extra small steps.
I disagree with the author about a couple of points.
She shows a link in her book to a “Warrior Special Offer”.
In theory, only Members of the Warrior Forum should be able to access these offers.
- They may not fit the interests of the book’s readers.
- The content of the thread about that offer is not under your control.
- If the book in which you put the link is available for more than a few weeks, the thread about the offer may be closed, deleted by moderators or contain material which does not impress your readers or competes with your products or services.
The author also suggests on Page 16, that you might include one or more graphic advertisements for related products in the book. I know from feedback in a number of forums and from readers directly that they dislike this in a book they paid for. It will affect their desire to buy more books from you unless your material is unique and very high quality.
I believe that affiliate links in a book should only be used where the products or services linked to are relevant to the material in the book. This is a bit different to some of the ways the author uses them.
I’ll finish with a few comments about the other. I cannot detail too much about suggestions which the author focuses on because that is what you buy.
But, my comments relate to how I judge them on the value I see for potential buyers of this ebook when the suggestions are used in their own books.
The main text of the book finishes on Page 31. Most of the appendices after that are at least partly promotional.
The offer includes another report about writing ebooks which I did not see. I am not sure if it was written by Barbara Ling.
This report I reviewed covers how to format and add potential income sources to a book in Word or Open Office.
The suggestions are not exclusive to this book. Some should be used in every ebook in my opinion, so that could make the book useful to people who don’t have the knowledge.
Overall Impressions:
I don’t think there is anything unique in this book which shows how to make exceptional ebooks.
I think the author needs to revise the book to make some things clearer where material seems to be missing.
What our second reviewer had to say:
I really wanted to like this, since it is of great interest to my audience. I learned things from it, but not what the author intended, I’m sure.
She does use the method she describes in the book in the creation of this product. The step-by-step instructions do work.
The method she demonstrates would work well for creating free reports. Less than one third of the report (can’t call it an ebook) is content. The rest is promotion of herself and her products. After seeing one of her products, I wouldn’t purchase any other of her products because they would be the same 2/3 sales ratio.
This product may have triggered by current soapbox about relationship marketing. I feel that this approach violates the trust I have with my audience. If they pay for content, I want to deliver value.
There are a couple of typos. I dislike this in a product targeted at writers.
I think this would be a good product if it were titled Enhanced Free Report Secrets. I think this product will generate little profit for its buyers. People might not ask for a refund, but they probably won’t purchase another product from this source. This goes for this product’s author as well as anyone who follows this method.
Overall Impression:
I vote NO for promoting this one.
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