How to sell your PDF as a Flipbook?
Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2024 5:05 am
You've produced great content that you want to monetize, but don't know where to start. Some stats on Statista show that people are willing to pay for content they read, even if it's free. Don't worry! You deserve to be paid for your content.
There are several ways to monetize your content, one of which is to turn your content into online flipbooks and sell them.
Why Selling Your PDFs Online as Flipbooks Is a Good Idea
Here are 5 reasons…
1. Flipbooks are portable and reach a wider audience. With a flipbook, you can open without any space limitations using your mobile phone, tablet or computer. The more pages a traditional paper book has, the more space it requires to hold and carry. It also requires less space to carry and store. Imagine having to carry a traditional 1,000-page paper book - it's a hassle. With e-books, you don't have to worry about that.
2. Flipbooks are more cost-effective. Buying books online is often less expensive than buying traditional paper books. There is no need to print flipbooks, so you can save a lot of money on printing. For publishers, you can reduce production costs and make more profit. For readers, you can buy books at a cheaper price. Using online flipbooks can overseas chinese In australia data be a win-win situation for both publishers and readers.
3. Flipbooks will have more possibilities and encourage more creativity. You can enhance the content of your e-book by adding videos, audio, links and other multimedia content to create an immersive reading experience for your readers.
4. Flipbooks are more convenient. Many flipbooks have a search feature that lets you enter keywords and find relevant content in just a few seconds. Readers can also zoom in and out of the e-book and change the size of the font.
5. Flipbooks are more environmentally friendly. Traditional paper book printing requires paper and ink. If you accidentally find a typo or other mistake, you have to start all over again, which is undoubtedly a waste of resources. For e-books, this is avoided. You simply overwrite the original file with the modified one, without affecting the reading of the customer, since the access link will not change.
How to convert your PDF to flipbook?
If you want to enable the search and copy text feature in your eBook, you need to make sure that the text is copyable and searchable in the PDF. If the text is in an image, it will not be searchable and copyable. You will need to use another OCR tool to convert the image to text first.
1. Import PDF or image into the program and wait a moment to generate the book. Support both PDF and image (JPG/JEPG/PNG/BMP). See the guideline>
2. Customize the book to your needs, such as changing the template & scene, setting the book interface/toolbar, and enriching the book with multimedia content.
How to customize the interface of flipbooks? >>
How to enrich the content of flipbooks with multimedia content? >>
How to sell your Flipbooks?
Here we introduce two common ways to sell flipbooks.
1. Use the FlipBuilder Bookcase to sell flipbooks.
You need to upload your books to the FlipBuilder server and then sell them on the bookcase. There is an additional fee for this service, which is not included in the program royalty. After you have set up your flipbook in the program, you can upload it directly by clicking on "Upload". Once uploaded, a link will be generated automatically. Then you can log in to your account in the online control panel and set up your book for sale. Please note that if you are going to sell a book, you do not need to password protect your flipbook. Once a book is set for sale, it is protected and cannot be accessed by others without a purchase.
-Upload books in the program
Upload books to the flipbook selling program
- Login to your account in Online Panel >>
- Put your book up for sale
You can currently only set prices in US dollars. Other currencies are not supported.
Sell Flipbook Options
- Complete [E-Commerce Settings] in your account.
Enter your Paypal account that can be used to receive payments, customize a thank you letter for your customers, and fill in your contact information.
E-commerce Settings-Sell Books
- Enable IPN in your PayPal account.
IPN (Instant Payment Notification) is a POST message sent by Paypal (for regular merchant accounts) whenever a transaction is completed on their side. You must enable it in your Paypal account, otherwise your customers will not receive an order confirmation email after the payment is completed. Our system needs to confirm that you have successfully received the payment using IPN and then send the order information to your customers. You can enter https://www.flipbuilder.com/ or https://panel.flipbuilder.com/ in the notification URL. More Instructions>>
- Add books to the bookcase and customize the bookcase interface.
Add books to your bookcase and have customers sell your bookcase with bookcase interface.
- Share your bookcase link or embed the bookcase on your website.
After you complete the above settings, you can then share the bookcase link with your target customers or use the embed code to embed the bookcase on your website.
Share Bookcase-Sell Books
To be honest, the current process of selling and buying books may not be very user-friendly. There is a lot of room for improvement, and we will definitely update it in the near future.
2. Sell books with WooCommerce
Many people’s websites are built with WordPress. WooCommerce is an open source ecommerce plugin for WordPress designed for small to large online merchants using WordPress.
If you already have a WordPress website, you can consider selling your flipbook using WooCoomerce. We have users who have successfully used WooCoomerce to sell their books.
One of our clients' practices - Kira Shimoni Fulks
This awesome tool gives new life to my newly published book THE BOY IN THE BOX (available at kirasart.com ). I add audio and can send it around the world with the click of a button. Magic!
WooCommerce- Sell Books
- Self-host your flipbook or host your book on the FlipBuilder server, then contact WooCommerce customer support to see how to get it done.
There are several ways to monetize your content, one of which is to turn your content into online flipbooks and sell them.
Why Selling Your PDFs Online as Flipbooks Is a Good Idea
Here are 5 reasons…
1. Flipbooks are portable and reach a wider audience. With a flipbook, you can open without any space limitations using your mobile phone, tablet or computer. The more pages a traditional paper book has, the more space it requires to hold and carry. It also requires less space to carry and store. Imagine having to carry a traditional 1,000-page paper book - it's a hassle. With e-books, you don't have to worry about that.
2. Flipbooks are more cost-effective. Buying books online is often less expensive than buying traditional paper books. There is no need to print flipbooks, so you can save a lot of money on printing. For publishers, you can reduce production costs and make more profit. For readers, you can buy books at a cheaper price. Using online flipbooks can overseas chinese In australia data be a win-win situation for both publishers and readers.
3. Flipbooks will have more possibilities and encourage more creativity. You can enhance the content of your e-book by adding videos, audio, links and other multimedia content to create an immersive reading experience for your readers.
4. Flipbooks are more convenient. Many flipbooks have a search feature that lets you enter keywords and find relevant content in just a few seconds. Readers can also zoom in and out of the e-book and change the size of the font.
5. Flipbooks are more environmentally friendly. Traditional paper book printing requires paper and ink. If you accidentally find a typo or other mistake, you have to start all over again, which is undoubtedly a waste of resources. For e-books, this is avoided. You simply overwrite the original file with the modified one, without affecting the reading of the customer, since the access link will not change.
How to convert your PDF to flipbook?
If you want to enable the search and copy text feature in your eBook, you need to make sure that the text is copyable and searchable in the PDF. If the text is in an image, it will not be searchable and copyable. You will need to use another OCR tool to convert the image to text first.
1. Import PDF or image into the program and wait a moment to generate the book. Support both PDF and image (JPG/JEPG/PNG/BMP). See the guideline>
2. Customize the book to your needs, such as changing the template & scene, setting the book interface/toolbar, and enriching the book with multimedia content.
How to customize the interface of flipbooks? >>
How to enrich the content of flipbooks with multimedia content? >>
How to sell your Flipbooks?
Here we introduce two common ways to sell flipbooks.
1. Use the FlipBuilder Bookcase to sell flipbooks.
You need to upload your books to the FlipBuilder server and then sell them on the bookcase. There is an additional fee for this service, which is not included in the program royalty. After you have set up your flipbook in the program, you can upload it directly by clicking on "Upload". Once uploaded, a link will be generated automatically. Then you can log in to your account in the online control panel and set up your book for sale. Please note that if you are going to sell a book, you do not need to password protect your flipbook. Once a book is set for sale, it is protected and cannot be accessed by others without a purchase.
-Upload books in the program
Upload books to the flipbook selling program
- Login to your account in Online Panel >>
- Put your book up for sale
You can currently only set prices in US dollars. Other currencies are not supported.
Sell Flipbook Options
- Complete [E-Commerce Settings] in your account.
Enter your Paypal account that can be used to receive payments, customize a thank you letter for your customers, and fill in your contact information.
E-commerce Settings-Sell Books
- Enable IPN in your PayPal account.
IPN (Instant Payment Notification) is a POST message sent by Paypal (for regular merchant accounts) whenever a transaction is completed on their side. You must enable it in your Paypal account, otherwise your customers will not receive an order confirmation email after the payment is completed. Our system needs to confirm that you have successfully received the payment using IPN and then send the order information to your customers. You can enter https://www.flipbuilder.com/ or https://panel.flipbuilder.com/ in the notification URL. More Instructions>>
- Add books to the bookcase and customize the bookcase interface.
Add books to your bookcase and have customers sell your bookcase with bookcase interface.
- Share your bookcase link or embed the bookcase on your website.
After you complete the above settings, you can then share the bookcase link with your target customers or use the embed code to embed the bookcase on your website.
Share Bookcase-Sell Books
To be honest, the current process of selling and buying books may not be very user-friendly. There is a lot of room for improvement, and we will definitely update it in the near future.
2. Sell books with WooCommerce
Many people’s websites are built with WordPress. WooCommerce is an open source ecommerce plugin for WordPress designed for small to large online merchants using WordPress.
If you already have a WordPress website, you can consider selling your flipbook using WooCoomerce. We have users who have successfully used WooCoomerce to sell their books.
One of our clients' practices - Kira Shimoni Fulks
This awesome tool gives new life to my newly published book THE BOY IN THE BOX (available at kirasart.com ). I add audio and can send it around the world with the click of a button. Magic!
WooCommerce- Sell Books
- Self-host your flipbook or host your book on the FlipBuilder server, then contact WooCommerce customer support to see how to get it done.