Comments on: Looking for 1001 Ways to Promote my Ruby eBook http://rubylearning.com/blog/2008/04/22/looking-for-1001-ways-to-promote-my-ruby-ebook/ All about Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:11:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Miclee Br. http://rubylearning.com/blog/2008/04/22/looking-for-1001-ways-to-promote-my-ruby-ebook/#comment-53736 Miclee Br. Sat, 10 May 2008 20:17:32 +0000 http://rubylearning.com/blog/?p=106#comment-53736 Make the simple review or report with PDF format. Make sure to put the URL that linking to your order page. Submit it to free ebook directory / giveaway site. Make the simple review or report with PDF format. Make sure to put the URL that linking to your order page. Submit it to free ebook directory / giveaway site.

]]> By: Jim Pryke http://rubylearning.com/blog/2008/04/22/looking-for-1001-ways-to-promote-my-ruby-ebook/#comment-51986 Jim Pryke Fri, 02 May 2008 22:00:17 +0000 http://rubylearning.com/blog/?p=106#comment-51986 Three thoughts come to mind: 1) Make the book available in print. Some people (like me) are too cheap to replace their aging computer monitors, so having your book in print could be handy. You already have the book in PDF form, so it probably wouldn't be too much of a headache to make it available using Lulu http://www.lulu.com/en/products/ to print the book as orders came in. They process the orders and handle the shipping for you. And you could choose whether to sell at cost, or have a dollar or so from each purchase go to supporting your free ruby course. 2) Cross promote using your mailing list. I assume that you have kept the names and emails from people registering to get your book. Find someone (or a few people) with a ruby related mailing list, and provide them with a 30 or 40 word blurb promoting your free ebook, and offering to send an email of similar length to your list, telling them about whatever free and valuable product or service they are offering to the ruby community. Be aware that this could lead to a lot of downloads of your ebook over a short period of time. You'd need to plan for the burst of traffic and bandwidth. Just don't give anyone direct access to your list, ever. 3) I think its pretty clear that both your ebook and free ruby course should be mentioned on this page: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/ I don't know if there is anything that you could do to encourage them to list you, but if there is, I think it would be worthwhile. I've checked out most of the resources that they list there, but your book and course have taught me far more, and I think that would be the case for others as well. Regards, Jim Three thoughts come to mind:
1) Make the book available in print. Some people (like me) are too cheap to replace their aging computer monitors, so having your book in print could be handy. You already have the book in PDF form, so it probably wouldn’t be too much of a headache to make it available using Lulu http://www.lulu.com/en/products/ to print the book as orders came in. They process the orders and handle the shipping for you. And you could choose whether to sell at cost, or have a dollar or so from each purchase go to supporting your free ruby course.

2) Cross promote using your mailing list. I assume that you have kept the names and emails from people registering to get your book. Find someone (or a few people) with a ruby related mailing list, and provide them with a 30 or 40 word blurb promoting your free ebook, and offering to send an email of similar length to your list, telling them about whatever free and valuable product or service they are offering to the ruby community. Be aware that this could lead to a lot of downloads of your ebook over a short period of time. You’d need to plan for the burst of traffic and bandwidth. Just don’t give anyone direct access to your list, ever.

3) I think its pretty clear that both your ebook and free ruby course should be mentioned on this page: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/

I don’t know if there is anything that you could do to encourage them to list you, but if there is, I think it would be worthwhile. I’ve checked out most of the resources that they list there, but your book and course have taught me far more, and I think that would be the case for others as well.

Regards,
Jim

]]> By: Skiptree Thoughts » Blog Archive » 1001 ways to promote a free ruby book… http://rubylearning.com/blog/2008/04/22/looking-for-1001-ways-to-promote-my-ruby-ebook/#comment-50700 Skiptree Thoughts » Blog Archive » 1001 ways to promote a free ruby book… Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:06:52 +0000 http://rubylearning.com/blog/?p=106#comment-50700 [...] a suggestion on how to promote his book to his blog.  While you are there, pick up the  Free Ruby eBook.  It’s the one you get when you sign up with rubylearning.com, but the blog is still [...] [...] a suggestion on how to promote his book to his blog.  While you are there, pick up the  Free Ruby eBook.  It’s the one you get when you sign up with rubylearning.com, but the blog is still [...]

]]> By: Rainer http://rubylearning.com/blog/2008/04/22/looking-for-1001-ways-to-promote-my-ruby-ebook/#comment-49614 Rainer Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:09:04 +0000 http://rubylearning.com/blog/?p=106#comment-49614 P.S.: This should work with free books just as well: Just upload the complete pdf. P.S.: This should work with free books just as well: Just upload the complete pdf.

]]> By: Rainer http://rubylearning.com/blog/2008/04/22/looking-for-1001-ways-to-promote-my-ruby-ebook/#comment-49612 Rainer Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:06:34 +0000 http://rubylearning.com/blog/?p=106#comment-49612 Have you considered using the Google books partner program? https://books.google.com/partner/ It says: "By matching the content in your books with user searches, Google Book Search connects your books with the users who are most interested in buying them." Kind regards, Rainer Have you considered using the Google books partner program?

https://books.google.com/partner/

It says: “By matching the content in your books with user searches, Google Book Search connects your books with the users who are most interested in buying them.”

Kind regards,

Rainer

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