The article above outlines most of the relevant things I learned about creating a template. Coming from an MS Word background, I had to figure out where the controls were for the settings.

One thing that was tricky is that each page style you create leads to another. So, if you set the title page style to lead to a page style for your disclaimer page, anytime you apply the title page style OpenOffice will automatically apply the disclaimer style to the next page.

Since these styles ripple through your whole document, you can really screw up a document if you haven’t carefully planned out all of your styles.

My template is just a document with placeholder content and boilerplate content. The ebook I link to in the article was created using this template document. I just opened the template, changed the text and images on the title page, updated the disclaimer page, and added the body content for the new ebook. Then, I saved it under a new name.

All my ebooks are exported as PDF files. I never compile my ebooks.

Bombs explode, I mean implode as in collapse in on itself due to extreme external pressure – self destruct.

I’m in business and I know websites cost money. There’s bandwidth, servers, domain names, programmers, etc. The more traffic you get the greater the pressure on the technical side. Server farms and programmers cost money. Load-balancing technology, secure gateways, and back-up hardware cost money. Accountants to manage the finances to run the whole operation and lawyers to keep it compliant with federal regulations cost money.

My questions are who is paying for it, what’s in it for them, and what is my risk that they might shut down and cut off my cash flow? I think these are reasonable concerns for a business person to have.

I also know that the life blood of my business is my order processing system. It takes time to setup all of the components of a product ordering sequence (integration with mailing lists, cross-sells, upsells, affiliate tracking and payments, etc.)

To have all of that resting on the services of a company that appears to have no plan for earning a profit (which in my mind equals a sustainable business) makes me very uneasy.

I have an uncle who’s a very nice guy and means well. But, he has a tendency to not follow through on the things he ‘means to do.’ That doesn’t mean that I never ask him to be part of anything. It just means he’s never responsible for anything that is critical.

For anyone who is just dabbling in online publishing and isn’t creating a significant business infrastructure – a totally free service is cool. Nothing lost if it doesn’t work out.

If your ability to pay the mortgage or pay vendors doesn’t depend on stable income from your ecommerce system processing sales – who cares?

Beyond that, folks might want to consider other business needs and risks when choosing an ecommerce service.

Thanks for the lead.

Personally, I’m highly suspicious of any ‘business’ that claims it doesn’t want to make any money. This site will quickly amass a huge database of content and some equally huge bandwidth bills to go with it.

The money to pay for that has to come from somewhere. If the site’s owners are truly benevolent, I think the whole thing will implode some day (and take your business with it.) Or, they will start selling something or charging fees.

Before you get your business to wrapped up in this service, read over the TOS carefully so you know what you are getting into.

Maybe I’m just overly suspicious…

Kiqlo automatically displays the list of the author items. it has a full text index and new development is coming for categorization. The amazing thing is that is not only about eBooks but is about all your digital content.

It is entirely free and 0% commission.

Thanks for pointing out this resource. It looks like a very easy way to monetize content – specially blog posts.

I’m curious to know how this business is funded. If I pay nothing for the service, who is paying? Will my potential customers have to create Oronjo accounts in order to purchase my content or can they pay without registering?

I didn’t see any mention of shopping cart tools, follow-up email sequences or mailing list service integration, discount codes, inventory management, sales and VAT tax collection, affiliate promotion tools, integration with fulfillment houses and on-demand production facilities for physical product deliveries and other critical tools for someone planning to run a business selling goods online.

While I can see a place where this service would be beneficial, it doesn’t seem to come anywhere close to providing the tools I get (and need) from E-Junkie for only $5/month (due to the fact that I sell several very large video and audio download products, my current monthly fees are $18 – still incredibly small.)

I’m strongly thinking about trying this out on a niche content site that is pretty active. If it generates more income than what I currently earn from advertising and affiliate product promotions, I’ll write a full article about Oronjo on my main blog.

Thanks again for taking the time to share this new tool with the readers here.

Andrew

I just wanted to let you know that Oronjo.com is a new alternative to E-Junkie, Payloadz (etc) that is a 100% free.

Everyone can now sell their own music, thesis, novel, photos, weblog articles or movies, all from their own webpage.

This even works for weblog articles – without changing their design (a feature the others don’t offer). Also, you don’t need to have a PayPal or Google Checkout account to start selling content.

With kind regards,

Lisa Cremer
Oronjo.com