You can also sell on the iPad and Nook platforms. Just keep the price the same to avoid competition conflicts.I actually have two eBooks published via Kindle Direct Publishing.(KDP) I'm not making huge amounts of money but they already paid back the time I invested in them.
Who do you want to sell to? The general public? Then Amazon's Kindle is the place to be. It's extremely easy to publish eBooks through KDP and formatting the book is literally very simple HTML. And there are free converters that turn you book into .ePub or .pdf at the click of a button.
edit: The key to success is finding the right niche and marketing, of course.
Yeah but those eBook markets are way smaller and they don't have Amazon's amazing marketing behind them. iBooks (Apple's eBook marketplace) is especially notorious for the meagre sales not being worth the hoops you have to jump through. Nook can be an easy way to make your book free, though.You can also sell on the iPad and Nook platforms. Just keep the price the same to avoid competition conflicts.
What types of tools/procedures are you using to lock the ebooks? Redirecting from PayPal to a static page seems like an easy way to get it leaked, how are they locked?
Download OpenOffice. It is a free software suite that is similar to
Microsoft Office. Use the word processor of OpenOffice and write
your ebook, then export as a PDF. Voila! Ready to sell EBOOK!
Cheers . . . and best of luck! - "Wiz"