Search Engine of Independent Retailers and Small Business Resources

As many entrepreneurial spirits, we brainstorm brilliant idea after brilliant idea. Every one of them we hope is the golden key to riches and Internet fame. We’re no exception to these dreams and one of our earliest endeavors was a fantasticly brilliant idea to give children’s books a virtual 3-dimensional presence at Ebooks4Tots.com. We sought out talented authors and illustrators and created an internal network by which authors could submit their stories and we would match them with an illustrator of a suitable style to the story. The ebooks were published in a virtual, on screen, 3-D format that would pop up on the viewers screen and each page would be clickable to go forward or backward. I still believe it is an excellent idea in the hands of someone with more passion, time, and patience.

We published about a dozen quality ebooks and listed them at below $10 for personal download. They were free to preview the first few pages and then were prompted to pay if the user wanted to continue. We sold a few. But unfortunately, a few is not enough to maintain the ongoing costs of keeping a website hosted.

Considering the number of endeavors that we have devoted time and resources to, we’re finding that although our resources appear to be endless, our time is not. For a long time, we’ve made the conscious decision to simply keep the site in place and do nothing with it… until we could get to it. After months and months, it was appearing more likely that we would not likely ever “get to it.” So the last resort has presented itself and we’ve come to a decision to simply shut it down and reallocate the webspace and bandwidth to the sites that are currently performing best. After shutting down several of our endeavors to date, we are continuing to keep this site, IndieRetailer.com, as well as our latest and most profitable endeavor, Dollar Card Marketing, alive. If you haven’t read our release from previous posts, Dollar Card Marketing is where we customize realistic looking dollar bills for the use as a business card, drop card, or sizzle card to promote any business product or promotion.

As for the authors and illustrators of Ebooks4Tots.com, they are all hereby released from all contractual obligations regarding publishing, copyrights, and rights to sell their publications, stories, and/or illustrations. Any of the authors and illustrators are welcome to contact me and ask for an unencumberred electronic publication of their ebook without the integrated payment gateway.