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EBook Structure: How To Build a Good EBook Structure

January 29th, 2009 No comments

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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