EEPS! Electronic E-information Products

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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 Kitty Sites" eBooklet that costs 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 got it free from us?)

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 ReportSearch.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.ReportSearch.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!