What is an e-book?
An e-book is simply a digital document
that contains content that
entertains, enlightens or inspires your readers
.
It can be 5 pages long or 2500 pages long. It may be a complete book
that uses all of the old fashioned elements of book publishing or an
e-book can be a truly creative piece of work.
An e-book could be a speech, a series of speeches, a poem, a series
of poems, recipes or series of recipes and "how to instructions. E-
books may also be short stories like Stephen Kings "Riding the
Bullet."
E-books might
contain sound; video and animation or they might
resemble a
typical paperback book.
Think about all of the things you have done in your life. Can you
help people achieve success by writing about your experiences?
Create a title page, a table of contents and begin writing chapters.
Set up your pages like any other documents. If you make use of
Microsoft Word
you may set up "hyperlinks" connecting chapters as you would html
pages on a website.
2. Save your e-book as in Microsoft Word as a doc. File...text
file...and html file
3. Set up an account with Infopost.com. They will host your document
and
give you a free of price
internet site
page to add
your description, reviews,
pricing and any other data
. Infopost.com is located at:
http://www.infopost.com
Infopost will also perform credit card processing and they allow you
to post sample chapters or excerpts of your e-books.
4. Follow the directions on listing your e-book, including the
description, pricing and sample chapter and then up-load your e-book
to Infopost.com
5. Copy and paste the URL of your e-book to your e-mail signature and
register your Infopost description page URL with all of the major
search engines and directories.
Below are two places you may accomplish this for free of price
.
http://www.jimtools.com
http://www.urlsubmitter.com
Now you are a full-fledged e-book author. You will begin selling your
e-books quicker than you think after completing the process.