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Tell HN: If you blog regularly, check out eBookCake.com

3 pointsJoeyDoey8 comments

I launched this design service for bloggers and web authors who are looking for ways to further monetize their existing blog content.

from the site:

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http://ebookcake.com

We Turn Your Blog Posts & Articles Into Elegantly Designed Ebooks Increase revenue from your existing site content. Have your cake & eat it too!

Diversify and monetize! let us help you. you’re already writing regularly on your blog, perhaps even selling ads on your site. offer your readership a convenient, elegantly designed way to access that same content. offer your site sponsors a new way to advertize. monetize!

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1) It looks like a scam site

2) In the eBook world, PDFs are not considered eBooks

3) There's nothing there to explain why someone can't DIY by just pasting a post into their own word processor and saving as PDF

You absolutely can make a PDF from HTML or however else but what this is, more than anything, is a design service. We take the content, design it, and give it back to you as an eBook. You can actually take that PDF and have it printed on print-on-demand services like MagCloud.

Then I really suggest a redesign of that site to emphasize the design services and to make it look less scammy than it does right now.

By "scammy", what exactly do you mean? I don't quite understand what, in the design or explanation of the service, comes off as "scammy".

Nice service. Bad name. I can't remember the name but there is one free WordPress plugin for this out there. So you need to have good design as your USP. Or something else?

Elegant design is definitely one of the main selling points. Perhaps I need to communicate that better in the copy.

Kinda interesting idea - you should put up a "before and after" without needing to download a zip file

That's a good idea. I'll do that.

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