E-book Writing
E-books are books or newsletter on a computer disk or a computer file (just like this one). Paperless Publishing has become very popular for several reasons.
It costs very little to publish a few books on disk.
You can make up the disks as you need them, you don?t need to maintain an expensive inventory.
It is very fast, and easy to make charges in an E-book.
E-books can make a great addition to your product line.
What kind of books can you publish on disk? There has not been a great deal of success publishing E-book novels. The major E-book successes have come as information, or how to kinds of publication. People need, and want specialized information. If you can produce a first class product at a reasonable price, you should have no problem getting sales.
How do you create an E-book? Actually, it is quite easy. You simply use any word processor that can produce plain text files. These are also known as ASCII files. Most word processing programs give you the option of saving files as text files. Examples are Microsoft Word, Notepad, WordPad, Word Perfect, and most other popular word processors.
Once you have all of the text files that make up your book, it is time to use the special E-book software.
Most E-book Software is very easy to use. You simply define which text files go into which chapter. The software then creates a final E-book product. This is usually in the form of a single executable (.exe) file. This makes it impossible for the average computer users to modify your book.
E-books are nice products because they are easy to handle and ship. You can even send them by email. They cost very little to produce, thus you have a high profit margin. Some people have had great success with E-books. Others have only had a small amount of success with E-books. Here are reasons why.
1. The product was subpart. There are too many "informational" products being marketed that are of poor quality.
2. The marketing was poorly done. You need to put forth the same kind of effort as if you were marketing a regular book.
3. The company did not have enough supporting products. I recommend that you have a family of similar products (4-8 different E-books).
Marketing E-books can work well if done right. One man sold over 200,000 copies of his E-book! This E-book provided information for new computer users.
Another method for making E-books is to use a multimedia creation software program. This enables you to combine text, graphics, and sound into a multimedia type product. These programs are a little more difficult to use, but not too much so.