Promoting ebook

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  psychologymum · Member · May 24, 2013 at 8:22 pm

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  Can I promote my own ebook on my blog

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · May 24, 2013 at 8:56 pm

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  You are allowed to promote any product you personally create or any service you personally provide on your blog. If you intend to charge for the product or services free hosted WordPress.com blogs cannot be equipped for ecommerce. You can use and contact form and/or a PayPal donation button.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/

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  kathrynwp · Staff · May 24, 2013 at 9:05 pm

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  Just to confirm, you can definitely promote and even sell an ebook on your site, using a PayPal “buy now” button, or by linking to a third-party store where your book might be for sale, such as Amazon, Smashwords, etc.

  Our PayPal support page which timethief linked to above has been updated to include instructions for adding “buy now” buttons in addition to donation buttons, so feel free to check it out and let us know if you need any help or further clarification. Thanks!

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  timethief · Member · May 24, 2013 at 9:07 pm

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  @kathrynwp
  Thanks for the heads up. I bookmarked this and will endeavor not to forget what you provided.

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  kathrynwp · Staff · May 24, 2013 at 9:09 pm

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  timethief – no worries! :-)

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  juanchto · Member · May 28, 2013 at 9:30 pm

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  then
  you can sell a digital course or ebook?

  Example: http://lecturaveloz7.wordpress.com/productos/
  this blog is promoting and selling at the same time?
  or are just promoting?

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  timethief · Member · May 28, 2013 at 10:45 pm

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  Did you create them or not?

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  raincoaster · Member · May 28, 2013 at 10:48 pm

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  You can only sell your OWN materials. You can’t sell someone else’s.

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  juanchto · Member · May 28, 2013 at 11:10 pm

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  Ok
  perfect.

  But he did not say if the previous page is valid to sell their products shown on that page?

  This page above is valid?

  thanks

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  raincoaster · Member · May 28, 2013 at 11:28 pm

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  Is it yours?

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  juanchto · Member · May 28, 2013 at 11:37 pm

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  No.
  is a cuestion

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  psychologymum · Member · May 29, 2013 at 11:59 am

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  Thanks for all your responses. I know I can now promote my own e-book on wordpress.com. I would like to create a badge made up of the jpeg image of my book that then links to Smashwords/Amazon where I am selling it. Is that possible?

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  kathrynwp · Staff · May 29, 2013 at 1:20 pm

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  I would like to create a badge made up of the jpeg image of my book that then links to Smashwords/Amazon where I am selling it. Is that possible?

  Sure, that’s possible. You could use an image widget or text widget to put the badge in your sidebar or just embed it as a regular image within a post or page and add a link to it.

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  psychologymum · Member · May 29, 2013 at 9:18 pm

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  Thanks for the information. I have now added an image widget of my book to my blog.

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  kathrynwp · Staff · May 29, 2013 at 9:50 pm

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  Looks good!