One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every ebook site for sale reads something like this

‘hot ebook – over $1k in sales in a week, looking for quick sale’

This should throw up all kinds of red flags… one, because 90% of the time all the sales are from ebay, so unless you’re an avid ebay trader (I’m not) your going to be shit out of luck there, also, most ebooks have a short life and limited market, they only make those initial sales then die off, especially on ebay where you will be pushing the same book to the same people after you buy the site.

You’ll need to expand the market the book more in other areas to keep the sales up.

Regardless, anyone looking to sell something that’s got 0 track record of sales, wants a very quick sale (a few days), oh and let’s not forget to mention they still want 10x revenue for it – so a $1k first month ebook they will try to sell for $10k…

I’m not writing off all ebooks here, but there’s heaps of them around, only a handful are good, but quick sales for large amounts of cash and no track record is just a dangerous investment if you ask me. If it’s made $1k in its first week or month, why not keep it for 2-3 months, grow it more and then sell for $30k… buyer beware.