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EEPS! Electronic E-information Products
by Mike Banks Valentine
Everybody's doin' it! eBooks, eBooklets, eReports, eGads! The
problem with all of this e-information scattered about the web
on so many far-flung sites is that it's impossible to find them
all. That's only a problem if you're an information junkie like
me! The guy who subscribes to 53 eZines and downloads every
eBook he can get his hands on about web marketing and strategy.
Even if you are lucky enough to find a special report on
"Personal Marketing for the Ebizdog" that you may miss the
*best report*, "Ecommerce for the WebDog on a Short Leash."
You may see the free reports but miss the "How to Keep Your Dog
From Surfing KittyPurrrn at Work" eBooklet for only $19.95 from
another source on yet another web site.
If you find any information at all, the author of that report
is hoping you *don't* find out about his competitor's longer and
more detailed, more helpful report and certainly won't tell you
about it on his "Pets in Busines OnTheWeb" online tutorial.
The web excels at providing electronic information immediately
downloadable in plain text, or neatly formatted with graphics and
tidy colored charts in PDF format or delivered by autoresponder
directly to your e-mail box.
Early in 1999, technical book e-dealer, FatBrain.com saw the
trend to electronically downloadable information gaining on
the traditional publishing market and worked out an innovative
way to harness that growing collection of "EEPS" for profit.
WebSite101 offers our "How to Get My Business Online" short
course through FatBrain.com and we get a $2.00 check each time
someone downloads that information. (Aren't you glad you can
get it free from us at http://website101.com/shortcourse.html)
FatBrain saw the opportunity to gather that e-information
together in one place and sell it for a fee to customers of
their web site. They take a 50% cut of the action each time
"e-Matter" (as they call it) is sold from their site. They
were quickly inundated with as much as they could handle in
submissions from e-authors of every sort!
Now there's a solution we've discovered that's gone "e-matter"
one better. It's called PlanetEEP.com, a free search engine
of quality "EEPS" that lists every known eBook, eReport and
eMaterial available so that you can search by subject, name
or keyword for information you need! The Yahoo type interface
returns lists of search results relevant to your requests,
whether paid, free or shareware.
Unlike FatBrain, http://www.PlanetEEP.com doesn't co-brand
any of the EEPS and lists ALL the quality electronically down-
loadable information in one searchable database. That's like
e-Heaven for an EEP junkie like me!
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