Write and Sell EBooks Tips To Make Money Online

“WHAT IF I GET STUCK WRITING A PARTICULAR SECTION IN MY EBOOK?”

This is a very common thought, and it can come to mind even if you are currently having no problems at all with your writing.

The best and easiest solution to go for is initially to persevere with writing the section you are on. It is actually very difficult to carry on writing without stopping for any prolonged period of time, and sometimes a short break is entirely necessary to give you time to gather your thoughts and decide how to phrase the next section you are going to write.

But if you find yourself sitting there staring at your computer screen for anything more than about five minutes and you haven’t made any progress at all during that time, then that could be a sign that you need to stop and move on to something else.

That doesn’t mean you should stop writing your book though. If you still have some of your allotted time for that day left, all you need to do is glance at the structure you have created for your book and move on to another section that catches your eye.

You see, while fiction writers have little choice in having to move from one chapter onto the next in order, because of the nature of the book they are writing, non-fiction writers have more flexibility. You know exactly what needs to go in each section – thanks to that structure you carefully created for yourself – so there is no reason why you cannot move on to another part of the book that you do have some momentum to write.

This method will get the book written faster, and you can still go back and edit it all at the end to make sure the whole thing still flows. And when you go back next time and carry on with the section you abandoned, the chances are you will find you can proceed quite easily.

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WRITING EBOOKS: TIPS FOR PROPERLY FORMATTING TEXT

The rules for formatting vary between print and online viewing for obvious reasons. Following these simple tips will help you project an image of a professional writer.

• Quotes and apostrophes should be curly when in print form. Many writers are fine with straight quotes in electronic form since Word can be buggy with the quotes. This is a bit of a hot topic with some writers and web designers, but the short story is that curly quotes and apostrophes are correct. The straight, or “dumb”, quotes were created with the invention of the typewriter. The typewriter didn’t have room for the curly quotes, and it certainly didn’t have room for an extra key for the left curly quote. Some of the less effective HTML converters will garble your curly quotes and they will tell you to use straight quotes, such as Article Marketer. This is due to their inability to convert the curly quote, not because it is correct.  Tools>Auto Correct Options>Auto Format>check.

• If you are using Auto Format you need to watch for curls that go the wrong way, especially in cases such as ‘08 for 2008.

• To insert proper trademark, registered, and copyright symbols just do the key combination Control-Alt-T/R/C.

• Prime and double prime (angled straight quotes and apostrophes) are used for foot and inch and minutes and seconds. An option is to italicize straight quotes.

• Underlining is rarely used in print.

• Don’t use more than one space after a sentence.

• Paragraphs in print should be indented ¼ or slightly more, but less than ½ and inch, with no extra space between paragraphs. For electronic books block paragraphs are common with no indent and a space between paragraphs equal to 1.5 – 2 times the height between sentences. If you use line spacing of 1.5 rather than the default 1.0, you will need a larger space between paragraphs.

• Adjust paragraph spacing using Format>Paragraph>Spacing and adjust the before and after. You can also adjust the line spacing on this page.

• Justify your text for a neat clean look in print and digital.

• Fonts for eBooks should be sans serif, which is easier to read in electronic form. Popular choices are Aerial, Verdana, Tahoma, Courier, and Helvetica. Verdana was designed specifically for clarity and easy reading on a computer.

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by Robert Boyd

FINDING EBOOK CONTENT IDEAS USING FREE TOOLS

Once you know your niche market you will need to create enough content for your book. Hopefully much of that content exists in your head already, but if you need more content there are many great tools that you can use to help you.

EZINE ARTICLES

Go to EZineArticles and type in your keywords and review the articles that are returned at the top of the search results. Look at the keywords that the article is targeting and also what the article content is. What is the problem that it is providing a solution to? At the bottom of the article EZineArticles will list the top viewed articles in the category most related to your keyword that you searched for. These articles should be reviewed and analyzed as they are obviously providing readers with the information they need. Make a list of all the topics covered and from that list you will be able to create an index of topics in high demand by consumers. You can also check out the level of competition by reviewing the websites where the author is linking to in the resource box.

YAHOO ANSWERS

Go to Yahoo Answers™ and search for your keywords. Take note of the questions/needs/problems posters are looking for a solution to. This is a great way to refine your understanding of the problem that you will need to solve to generate sales. Record the questions your market is asking as these will provide you with topics for the articles that you will write about and submit to article directories after the launch of your eBook.

FORUMS

Go to forums related to your eBook topic and take notice of the most popular forum topics and threads. Consider including information in your eBook to appeal to these forum posters. Investigate the longest threads with the most passionate responses. This is where you can find a ton of content ideas to attract a large market of buyers. If your topic is technical, you can find many gems of information that would add great value to your eBook. Many people that buy your book will be pleased with the purchase if they find a few nuggets of information that help them.

AMAZON

Go to Amazon and research the topic selling books on your topic. Use the “Look Inside” feature to scan the index to get a feel for the content provided in the book. You can also purchase the books to further increase your knowledge of the topic before you start writing. The more you know about a topic the easier the words flow while typing. If you already wrote your eBook, you can still add nuggets of information learned at a later date.

CLICKBANK

Purchase the leading products in ClickBank and review their content. This is your competition, and if you aren’t a big name internet marketer, your goal is to provide a better and more valuable product. Offering a better product than the leaders will give you an opportunity to break into internet marketing quickly by building a reputation for quality products, which will lead to many affiliates and joint venture partners.

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EBOOK CONTENT: DO YOU HAVE ENOUGH MATERIAL?

Once you have your basic structure all figured out, it is very tempting to start writing straightaway, but there is one more thing you should check before you do so.

It is almost certainly the case that you will have to do some kind of research to enable you to write your eBook, although the amount you have to do will depend largely on how well you know your chosen topic to begin with. If you are writing about something you do every day and you know the subject inside out, the only research you may have to do is the checking of specific figures or resources that you want to give to your readers.

If on the other hand you are only vaguely familiar with the subject, then you will need to do a lot more research to gather together enough material to enable you to write your book. The point is that you should look through your structure as you have it written down and work out whether there is enough there to write your eBook as you want to write it.

It may be that one or two chapters stand out as being a lot shorter than all the rest; if this is the case, have you fleshed them out enough? Are there aspects of those particular topics that you haven’t actually covered in enough detail? If you were reading an eBook on that subject, what would YOU want to know?

By doing this at this stage, you will avoid hitting a block during writing or struggling to figure out how to avoid having a too short eBook when what you really wanted was something meatier.

If you can’t find a way past a particular point in your structure, hop online and do some research on that topic. I have done this in the past and it is quite amazing how many times you will visit a website and read an article that will trigger off another idea or some other aspect of the topic that you had completely forgotten about.

Never forget the power of the internet for helping you with material, but always remember that you cannot copy the work of anyone else because that constitutes plagiarism. The idea is to jot down ideas and information that you find online (and in other sources as well, such as books and magazines) and then work it into your own words, so that you come up with something totally unique.

And you will usually find that you can inject your own thoughts into the information you have as well, so that your own voice starts to make itself known through your writing – and that will give you some really great results that you can truly be proud of!

Top tip – if you find you have a couple of chapters that are very short, you might be able to combine them with another chapter on either side of them. This doesn’t always work, but quite often a part of your topic which is extremely short in nature is that way because it is sitting in a place which is unnatural for it. So think about whether this could be the case, and don’t be afraid to edit your structure as necessary – it’s a lot easier to do this before you actually start writing!

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HOW TO FLESH OUT THE EBOOK STRUCTURE

Once you know what sections you are going to have in your eBook, it’s time to figure out what needs to go in each one.

Now there are a number of ways you can do this, but the best way to begin with is probably to repeat the process you just went through and work out how each section will be structured.

Don’t get worried at so much talk of structure – in reality it’s actually your best friend! You see, what we’re doing here is breaking down your eBook into progressively smaller chunks, so that when you actually come to write it (which can be a little scary the first time you sit down to do it), you won’t be faced with a monster of an eBook that needs to be written.

Instead, you’ll be looking at lots of bite sized little pieces of information that need to be written. This isn’t nearly as daunting as you’ll be able to tick each individual one off your plan as you write. And believe me, that’s a great feeling!

Think about it for a moment. Which would you rather do:

• Sit down with the thought that you have a whole eBook to write?

• Sit down with the task of writing a single chapter of that eBook?

• Sit down to write one section of one chapter – which may not amount to much more than a single page?

I know which one I would choose – which is exactly why I always write eBooks that way myself.

An example of fleshing out a particular section can be seen by taking a look at what I did when I made notes for writing this chapter you’re reading right now:

Chapter Three – Turning that idea into a fully fledged eBook

• Getting a structure together

• Fleshing out your structure

• Do you have enough material?

• How many pages?

• Images or no images? Benefits and drawbacks

• How is it going to look? Cover, typeface, etc.

These are very basic notes, and I had a sheet of 8 ½” x 11″ paper on hand which I scribbled down ideas that came to me that I wanted to include while I was writing the eBook, but that’s all you really need to get you going. If you do this for each chapter, you’ll be well away and churning out those pages faster than you might think.

Well, now you’ve read my plan for this chapter so you know what’s coming next, right?

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SO HOW DO WE BUILD A GOOD EBOOK STRUCTURE?

The best place to start is by thinking about what your eBook is going to be about and seeing if you can break that down into chunks. Don’t worry about the number of chunks you end up with – there is no magic number and what works for one book might fall flat on its face for another. You might have five or you may even end up with twenty or more. It simply doesn’t matter, so long as what you have covers the subject adequately and doesn’t leave you wondering if you have enough for a whole book after all.

You will often find that several areas will be blatantly obvious to you from the title and subject of your book. For example, a book about saving money could include sections on saving money on groceries, saving money on clothes, saving money on telephone and cell phones, and so on. Alternatively, of course, you could break that subject down and write a separate eBook on each topic (remember what we learned about niches and making sure you are aiming the book at a specific audience?) A book on internet marketing might have a number of different chapters each focusing on a different area of opportunities. No matter what your book is about, some of the sections will naturally fall into place and this is always how you should start.

Once you have jotted down all the ideas for topics which would form part of your book, take a look at them and work out whether or not there is any particular order they should go in. If we take this eBook as an example, you will see that after a short introduction, I tackle the subject of ideas first. Then comes the section on creating your eBook, then a look at what else you need to provide to create a complete package, and finally the topic of promoting and selling your eBook.

Now it’s fairly obvious in this case that this is the only order the sections can go in. It would be confusing if I started off by telling you how you can sell the book you have written. You’d be sitting there wondering “What book? I haven’t even written one yet! I thought this eBook was supposed to tell me about writing them…”

And then you would be wondering whether you’d made such a good purchase after all. You might even ask for a refund.

That’s why a nice common sense, well ordered plan of action is necessary to help you break your idea down into sections that are not only manageable for you to write, but also manageable for the reader to read – and which will lead them smoothly through your eBook from the beginning to the end.

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An ebook is an electronic book that can be read using a computer, PDA (personal digital assistant), mobile phone, or an ebook reader. Basically, it replaces the traditional paperbacks or books that are printed in paper. Just like the usual book, readers can also bookmark pages, highlight important notes, and pass on the ebooks in minutes. Ebooks are also great ways of making easy money online. Some people just download free ebooks to compile an ebook library so they can read novels, guides, and other reading materials electronically.

Ever since technology became advanced, creating ebooks nowadays is a breeze, especially with the right tools and software. There are a lot of options to use on how to create an ebook. First of all decide on an informative content that you want to share to your readers. Start by creating a free ebook first. Many applications can be used for ebook creation. Some examples are text editors like Word, Publisher, Excel, and Powerpoint. After building highly useful content, you may now start to publish your ebook using the most popular ebook format: PDF (portable document file).

In order to be able to convert the file into PDF format, you will need an ebook creation software like Adobe Acrobat, with the full version. If you are new to ebook creation, then you may want to try out the free Adobe Reader to view samples of a PDF file and how to really create an ebook. Ebook libraries are also available online so you can browse them and get ideas on how to create your own.

There are various free ebook creators that can be downloaded online. Usually, the paid software also have trial periods so you could test the product before purchase. The key to finding a good ebook creator is actually research and comparing them. Check if the software accepts most text formats and HTML (hypertext markup language) too. If you find a free ebook creator program that caters to all your needs, then you may scratch the option of actually purchasing a license key.

The beauty of ebooks is that one can self-publish his own novel or short story quickly. One of the most useful tips is to use a standard readable font and leaving ample space between paragraphs so text don’t look clogged up. To add flavor to your ebook, then use corresponding images or make colorful headers to your ebook. If you get a lot of ebook downloads after publishing it free for the first time, brainstorm on other possibilities on how to make easy money online.

Creating ebooks can be a lot of work at first, but once you get the hang of it, you’d realize that it can be pretty simple. All you need is to get your creative juices flowing and you’ll surely on your way to publishing an ebook and attract a lot of readers. When you’re already an ebook creating expert, you can even share to the world how you made easy money online with just a few taps on they keyboard.

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How to write an eBook is a question all aspiring authors ask themselves at the beginning of a new venture in online internet business.  This will give you an idea of the entire process, concept through publishing and selling your ebook, hopefully to thousands of hungry buyers.

If you are just entering this business you may be overloaded with the amount of information that is available to you. Don’t dispair, there are only a few resources that you need. And although the entire process may seem like a mountain too high to climb, it is actually a simple process that will become MUCH more efficient with each new book that you write.

My first eBook took about eight months to get to market. This was due to the simple fact that I was starting from scratch and had spent a small fortune on information and eBooks to learn everything I needed to know. I also spent much of the eight months in forums, digesting every tid bit that I dug up…

That reminds me, one of the most important things that you can do for your new career is to create an excel file and keep it open when you are surfing the Internet or reading an eBook. This file is where you should write any valuable tips that you come across. Create separate worksheets for different areas of the process, such as formatting, editing, finding topics to write about, publishing, selling, etc. This was the most important thing that I did as there was no other way to remember or organize the thousands of tips I came across.

Well, actually there now is one other way. I ran across an eBook that absolutely shocked me, as it had all of these tips included in a step by step blueprint for the entire writing, publishing, and selling an eBook. The author obviously had the same idea of orgainizing all the tips and techniques and included them into the eBook Bible. You can check out the Table of Contents here to see what I mean. There is an interesting story about the author and some courious testimonials on it’s sales page worth checking out here.