What Is PLR and How Should You Use It For Ebook Creation?

What is PLR and what can you do with it? How can it help you in your IM business or with eBook creation?

PLR, also known as Private Label Rights, are rights that are assigned or given by the owner/creator of a product to the purchaser of the product. These rights are clearly defined by the creator but can include the right to change the product, keep it the same, claim authorship and resell as your own. This product is typically an ebook, but can also include video, audio and other forms of software or graphics.

Some Internet Marketers who are interested in PLR ebooks are drawn to them because they think they can purchase a PLR ebook, slap their name on it and be seen as an expert in that field. With this method they don't really have to do the work that is involved with creating a product. This may seem like a great way to monetize your business quickly, but down the road it could damage your credibility and ultimately your business.

I personally know one Internet Marketer in particular that did this because I bought one of his products on article marketing. It didn't take long to realize not only had I already purchased the exact same ebook, word for word, from the original author, and I had the PLR rights to it as well.

I was promoting and selling it with the original author's name on it. This book went into a lot of detail about how the original author got started in IM, how much money he was making in the beginning, how many articles he was writing every month and so on. So the second guy was basically masquerading as a double for the original author. He lost my trust immediately.

I didn't spend a lot of money on it but I was still aggravated. Ultimately it was a valuable learning lesson for me because it taught me what NOT to do. If you want to sell a quality information product, I think it's ethically wrong to take someone else's product and just put your name on it. It's just downright misleading. It may be legal but I don't think it's a good idea.

A lot of Internet Marketers buy PLR products for other reasons. Many of them use them for researching whatever niche they want to become an expert at. They like buying the ebooks with PLR rights because if they decide to write an eBook along a similar theme they can use the PLR book as a guide to writing their own. If the PLR content is high quality (and many times it is if you look hard enough) it will be very useful for this purpose. Some also do very well promoting other marketers' PLR products. They may be working as an affiliate or directly selling the product (without making changes) and keeping 100% commissions.

Here's where I think PLR products can be useful. If you buy a quality information product from someone and that product comes with PLR rights, I think you can use it as a guideline for creating your own product. Use parts of it, but add to it. Put it in your own words with your own unique spin on it. But please do not put your name on someone else's product without adding any of your own originality to it. You will lose credibility in the long run.

Another great use for PLR products is as a giveaway. When you are trying to attract subscribers to build a list, find a great PLR eBook with quality content and use that to give away in exchange for a name and email address. Then you can email that person regularly and promote your own information products to them.

I am currently working on an original eBook myself that is a guide for proper eBook creation. In it I discuss how using free PLR content and PLR ebooks can be very useful during your research process. I recommend gathering up as much PLR as you can for educational purposes. Through my methods you will use PLR products as a guide, but not as an exclusive tool for writing your own ebook.

Where Can I Get Free EBooks Online?

eBooks are electronic books that can be formatted to fit many devices. There a number of good websites offering free eBooks for readers. Start by doing a search engine search for free eBooks. Once the search engine returns scroll the list and find and research the different websites presented. A more specific phrase entered into the search will present specific results. In other words you can find the type of book you are searching for. If you are looking for romance, health, or living well then these are the things you'd search. The statistics show that eBooks have surpassed hard copy books in popularity. This comes as no surprise with the creation of the Internet and technology advances. eBooks in every subject or variety can be found online.

What makes eBooks so popular is probably due to the benefits of eBooks associated with these popular digital books.

The eBooks can be downloaded to many devices such as your computer, iPad, eBook readers and memory holding devices. The digital books can be downloaded in many formats. Choose to read in PDF, or HTML format. Books can be delivered online straight to your device without the shipping fees or waiting for delivery through mail. You do not have to go to a bookstore to buy your book. The electronic books can have links in them to use for further research and information. Digital books are much easier to sell and resell. The eBooks are able to withstand time more efficiently than hard copy. They also can be stored and manage in less space than regular books. The way eBooks are sold is usually with a bonus attached whereas a hard copy doesn't sell this way.

Amazon one of many websites that offers a good source and variety of free electronic books for those who own Kindle products.

Barnes and Noble offers free eBooks for their Nook readers as well as digital books for sale.

Project Guttenberg is a website that offers over forty thousand digital books to choose from. This site offers books on all subjects for all types of readers.

There are many websites offering free eBooks to download and will only get better as more and more hard books are digitized. Some websites offer free memberships and members can download books of any kind. Membership websites are free to register but you are limited by the amount of books you can download during a period of time. This however is still a good program to join if they cover a wide variety of topics and areas of interest. These are just a few websites that allow free downloads of eBooks. Downloading free eBooks online is a great way to increase your library.

eBooks Made Easy

EBooks made easy! What a title! No doubt you've already ready several articles on how to do this. So why should I write another one. For the simple reason that another explanation may be the one that you need to create your first one, or write your next much more quickly than you ever dreamed possible. Are you interested?

A great friend of mine, with more than 100 books under his belt, once told me that the fast way to write a book is to "outline the whole thing; and then fill it up." It's the best advice I've ever heard, and I wanted to pass it along to you.

Before I talk about the outline, I want to explain how you need to think about the book itself. In other words, I want you to think of the whole thing first. Here are some questions to ask yourself:

1. What is the number one message I want people to take away from the eBook?

2. What sections do I need to cover in order to communicate that one message?

3. How long do I want the eBook to be?

4. Who am I writing it for?

5. What do I want readers to do as a result of reading the eBook?

Once you've answered those questions, you'll not only have a broad outline, but you'll have a direction. Both are essential.

Now you need to develop your outline.

Count up the number of sections that you've decided you want to write and add two to them. So for example, if you had 10 sections that you wanted to write, then add two to that total. That would mean that you were actually going to write 12, instead of just 10.

The first section will be your introduction. Then you'll outline your 10 sections. The 12th section will be a conclusion.

Now you need to outline each section. The introduction is the beginning of your book. In it, you will describe briefly what readers can expect to find in your eBook. In most cases, one page (250-300 words) will be enough.

For each of the remaining sections, except the last one, decide what the most important message is and how it ties to the overall message of the book.

In your conclusion, briefly summarize the highlights of what you've written in the book itself. This section should give readers a sense of closure.

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Using Free Marketing To Promote Your Ebook

There are many ways to profit with ebooks. I personally love ebooks because of the incredible lifestyle that it gives me. You can wake up with money in your inbox on autopilot. You can come and go as you please. You can maintain your customer service efforts via phone. And there's no boss over you telling you what to do. With all that said, I think now is a great time to start selling your own eBook right away.

Now with that being said, there are a lot of people who are struggling to get a lot of sales with their ebook. In fact, almost none of these people make money with their ebook. For whole entire year, they will have only made around $100 total from their eBook marketing efforts.

Now there are a ton of reasons why this can happen. Sometimes the person doesn't give their eBook business 110%. Most don't believe that free marketing works, and are convinced on the idea that paid marketing is the way to go. And some just simply put in no effort in learning about internet marketing and promoting their book online.

Quite simply, you can't make money this way. If you want to make money with your ebook, you need a supreme marketing strategy that is unrivaled with anyone else. Marketing plays a very important role when it comes to selling your ebook, and if you don't know how to sell and promote your eBook successfully, then this is a problem.

You should first start off researching and learning about the best free traffic strategies out there so that you can tap into these lucrative strategies that will bring your eBook the sales and profits that you have been looking forward to. There are a lot of free traffic methods out there, and sometimes... these free traffic methods can get you more traffic than from the paid advertising sources.

Some of the best strategies out there are article marketing, forum marketing, video marketing, blog marketing, and search engine marketing. All of these traffic strategies can yield you a ton of traffic - but only if you're willing to put the work in to make your eBook business a success.

One thing that you can't afford to do is to make excuses. You have to be responsible for your own efforts and not blame the traffic techniques for not working. If you think that paid advertising is the way to go, then you should try it. But don't be surprised if you end up spending a lot of money on a traffic source that may or may-not be profitable for you.

I've been marketing my website for a short period of time now, and I can truly say that free marketing works. In fact, 98% of my traffic comes from free traffic methods. So that says something in and of itself. Don't get down on yourself if you've played the "pay per click" game and have come back unprofitable. Pick yourself up, and focus only on free strategies that can earn you the most traffic and money.

Take these tips and use them to propel your online business today.

Good luck at using these tips to make more money in your business simply and easily.

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The Most Common Mistakes Made When Writing eBooks

Writing eBooks is something that can be really enjoyable. But, the first few times you do it can be very intimidating and there are always a few problems that may be encountered. This is especially the case if you've never written eBooks before. Your eBook may never even be read by the audience that it was intended for. The more you write eBooks the easier it will be to not have these problems. Even so, having more experience doesn't make sure your eBook will be launched. That is the reason why I put together a list of the seven mistakes that are often made by eBook writers. Look over the following list carefully and you won't make the mistakes.

1. Procrastinating due to a lack of self confidence about your eBook A lot of people that consider writing eBooks never even begin. The main cause of this is that they don't think their eBook is of a high enough quality to be written. This isn't true at all. You know something or have a new perspective on something and I guarantee that someone will find it helpful. You don't need to have a college degree to write a good eBook; the best ones tell us exactly what we need to know without too much excess. Thinking that your eBook won't be good enough isn't something to get caught up on.

2. Spending too long on research I realize that there are many writers in the world that spend a lot of time researching before they begin. If you're knowledgeable on the topic that you're writing about and have a solid outline, don't waste your time with long hours of research before you start writing. The recommendation that I give is for you to spend no more than a day on research before you begin to write your eBook. If there are topics in your eBook that require you to do additional research, all you have to do is make a note of it and continue the research when you edit.

3. Writing and editing at the same time Editing yourself while you're writing is not a good thing to do. You definitely should edit and revise your eBook, but that should be done separately from writing. Don't start editing during the process of writing.

4. Getting distracted from you writing It's vital that you become engaged in your writing. You have to create an environment for yourself that allows you to really think. That is why it's detrimental to edit and write at the same time. An important thing to do is to get into a rhythm that allows you to write your best.

5. Never finishing the eBook because your expectations are too high No matter what you do your eBook will never be immaculate. A wise decision to make would be to stop trying to obtain perfection. You should still try to make it the best that it can be but you should realize that when it's very good usually that's enough.

6. Leaving your eBook unedited and unrevised I've already stated that it's bad to edit and write at the same time. Once you've finished the writing stage it's still important to make sure you proof-read and edit. After I've edited the eBook myself I usually give it to a friend to look over. Someone else can almost always help you catch your mistakes. If you don't think anyone you know is good for that kind of thing you can either hire someone or get software to help you.

7. Letting your insecurities prevent you from launching the eBook There is no point to writing an eBook if no one ever reads it. Your work should be profitable either from selling the eBook or from obtaining email lists. Despite this you may be afraid that your eBook will be received badly. Even after I was done writing my first eBook I took two weeks before finally releasing it. Don't let this happen to you.

The solution to all of this is to create a system for yourself that's broken down into many different steps. If you follow the system one step at a time you should be able to avoid the problems.

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How to Use a Blog to Sell Your EBook

One of the questions I am frequently asked is "How Do I Promote My eBook?". There are lots of answers to this question, but the most important aspect is that you should have a centralized hub for your promotion efforts. This hub is usually a blog or web site that links into your other promotional tools, like Facebook and Twitter.

You can design a hub web site using a free Blogger account on Google so the only real cost for the web site is the cost of the domain name. Speaking of Domain Names, a good idea is to host a Blog on its own domain instead of showing the standard Blogger account URL, that is fairly easy to do using instructions from Blogger, especially if you are hosting your domain name on Go Daddy, Blogger has a simple link to set up the forwarding automatically. You can also buy a domain name right through Blogger and have the forwarding set up automatically. If your domain name is hosted somewhere else there are easy to follow instructions on Blogger for that as well.

The first thing you will see on a Blog is the look and feel, this is set up using a standard template from Blogger with a few customizations for the type style and color. Next you can add stand alone pages as tabs, for instance Home, Sign-Up, and Books. Blogger makes it easy to create specialty pages for your blog. The Home page is the standard blog page with all of the nice blog features, auto date inclusion, archiving of past posts, ability to set up favorite links, etc. All of these are easily included using Blogger's tools. One of the reasons to use a blog as a web site is that they are so easy to set up using the supplied templates, you can get a web site up and running in a week or less with no trouble. Once you have gone through the steps you could actually set up a Blog in an afternoon, I have done several of these to promote individual titles or topics.

The Blogger Tabs are special pages that contain static information, more like a traditional web site. A standard blog will have a list of posts with the most current post at the top, and the rest below or included in the archive. But if you want some information always readily available then adding in additional pages is the way to go. You could create a Sign-Up page that contains basic instructions on using the email sign-up form on the right, along with pointing out the Sharing buttons and links. This page would be basically for people who are new to blogging. Most experienced users will have already spotted these links, but it doesn't hurt to put in some instructions as well, just in case.

Blogger allows you to customize the blog by adding in what they call Gadgets. Depending on the template you use you can add several of these Gadgets in different places on the page. As an example there is a Gadget that contains share links for Facebook and Twitter. Of course Blogger automatically puts in Share buttons at the bottom of each post as well.

You can make income directly from your Blog by putting in an Amazon Affiliate box, placing ads from Amazon directly into your Blog. To add one of these you need an Amazon Affiliate account, then you can simply do a search for a book title on Amazon using the Amazon ASIN number or ISBN number. Set this up as a box using your Amazon Affiliate account and Amazon does the rest. You can sign up as an Amazon Affiliate using the link at the bottom of the Amazon home page titled "Become an Affiliate". There is no cost to join Amazon Affiliates.

You then grab the HTML code supplied by Amazon and put that onto your blog. I like to use a HTML Gadget (used to hold basic HTML or text) and paste in the HTML from Amazon. Amazon then serves the ad directly from their servers. By default the ad will align itself to the left side of the Gadget area, but by putting a Div tag around the Amazon code (in the HTML Gadget) you can then put in an align="center" attribute in the Div tag and align the ad to the center of the Gadget area if you like.

Another useful box to include is an email sign-up box. You could call this "Join My List" or "New Releases & Signings", or whatever you feel is appropriate for your site and audience. This is placed into another HTML Gadget. It is best if you use a service to handle this type of email box, one that I like is aWeber. The whole thing is set up over on AWeber and then the code is simply pasted into the HTML Gadget just like we did with the Amazon code above. The aWeber form takes you to a confirmation page, plus you will get a confirmation email. If you confirm through the email link you will then be taken to the blog's Book page. The confirmation page opens in a new window so you will not lose the Blog page. All this is set up using aWeber's service and is handled by them. All you need to do is configure the aWeber account, then grab the code and paste it into a HTML box on Blogger.

Other items that you might want to include in your Hub page are, a button to join the site using Google Friend Connect, an About Me link, a Favorite Links section that is another Blogger Gadget, and of course the Blog Archive (also a Gadget).

Once you have your Hub page set up, using Google's Blogger, other blog software, or your own hosted account you are ready to begin driving traffic to your hub page. The idea of course is to give yourself a central location to send traffic to. That central location will then have all the links you need to market to your list or prospects.

One final nice feature of Google's Blogger, since it is owned by Google your site is listed in Google's Search Engine practically as soon as you publish your blog.

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Tips on Marketing Your Ebook

A lot of people are already discovering the merits of writing an ebook. Whether you intend to use your eBook to showcase your literary targets or use it as a marketing tool, you should know how to promote your eBook and make sure it reaches it gets downloaded by your target market. There are those who can easily create ebooks but not all of them know how to market them properly. Do not let your hard work go to waste and start marketing your eBook the right way.

Tease your audience

Treat your eBook just like a new product or service that you have to promote. Products and services are given hype through advertisements to entice the audience. Musicians release teasers for their music videos, and the same goes for movies. Apply this type of treatment to your eBook to be able to build anticipation among your audience. The easiest way to do this is to make a blog post regarding your upcoming ebook. Build rapport with the readers by letting them become part of your project. You can ask for suggestions and feedback while you are at it. During the writing process, you can give them brief updates about your progress. It's all about whetting their appetites.

Ask your friends to help you out

What are Facebook friends and Twitter followers are for, right? Use your connections to help spread the word about your project. Your friends can use their statuses to inform their friends about your work. Of course, make sure that these friends will buy your book as well. Word of mouth through social media is a very effective way to promote your project.

Provide previews

As part of your "tease the audience" move, you should provide a chapter or two as previews of your ebook. You can post them on your website or offer it for download. This will give your readers a taste of what to expect from your ebook. Never underestimate the charm of free material. If they like what they will read, they will be determined to buy the finished product.

Get recommendations from other bloggers

Your fellow bloggers can help you out by giving reviews and recommendations about your ebook. Once you have finished the book, you can send free copies to select bloggers and ask them to publish a review on their websites, which you can link to your own. Recommendations from famous bloggers will increase the interest in your work and raises its credibility too.

Keep the price down

A minimal price tag never fails to attract the attention of the audience. People tend to buy stuff even if they are not fully acquainted with it if it comes cheap. Unless you are already an established author or blogger, stick to a lower price bracket to attract readers.

Marketing your eBook should go side by side with the writing process. By doing this, you're making sure that there are people who will be waiting for you to finish your eBook so they can buy it.

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eBook Formatting For Amazon Kindle and Epub Kobo Writing Life - A Step by Step Guide For Beginners

Get Your Novel Selling On Amazon Kindle

First you're going to transfer the words you've been slaving over, correcting, deleting, etc to PLAIN TEXT. This will get rid of any hidden formatting glitches that suddenly make your words appear in places on the page where you don't want them.

BEFORE you transfer your text to this document, make a SAFE COPY so that you can't lose all your work.

To make a SAFE COPY:

FILE > SAVE AS > In 'Save As' line write SAFETYnameofdocument. In WHERE - select somewhere you'll find it easily like 'Desktop'.

Click > SAVE

CLOSE that document.

Now return to your original final document.

Transfer all your text to TEXT EDIT/NOTEPAD:

OPEN a blank TEXT EDIT/NOTEPAD document:

MAC: Find the TEXT EDIT Application. Click FINDER (funny blue face at the absolute bottom left of screen). Click the APPLICATIONS folder. Scroll down till you see Text Edit and double click on it. This opens the Application Icon (A piece of paper and a pen) in your control board running across the bottom of the screen. Click on the Icon to open a fresh Text Edit Document.

On very old Macs this App is called Simple Text

PC: On PCs this App is called NOTEPAD.

Highlight all of your text:

Return to your original Master doc. Click EDIT (right at top of screen) > SELECT ALL

A shadow runs across all of the text.

Now transfer it:

Click APPLE + C (CONTROL + C on PC) which copies the text somewhere deep inside your computer

Move cursor to your blank Text Edit/Notepad page

Click CONTROL/APPLE + V

Your text is now on the page.

Click FORMAT (right at top of screen) > Make Plain Text.

All your fonts and formats will disappear, leaving just the writing.

OPEN A FRESH NEW WORD DOCUMENT don't worry about the page sizes or anything like that, you don't need to bother with that as long as it's a basic, standard kind of a page layout.

Now cut and paste your plain text back onto this fresh Word document.

The text will appear in the font you have set in Word. Use a basic, standard font like Times New Roman.

This is now, technically, a clean copy ready to be transferred to Kindle. Save it and name it KINDLE-booktitle.

Now, before transferring to Amazon KDP, the Kindle sales platform, you'll need to:

a) Go through the text and re-insert any text formatting that's been lost like itallics/bold. Don't mess with the spacings yet, leave them completely alone.

b) Justify the margins. Remember, this document will not appear on Kindle as you see it written on the page. The machinery transfers your text in its own way, so only do the basics and you'll be less likely to screw up.

Kindle automatically indents the first line of every paragraph. To keep it simple, therefore, justify your margins to the left. In your Toolbar look for the rows of parallel lines, they're called Align Left, Centred, Align Right, Justified.

Highlight all your text EDIT > Select All.

Then Click the first on L parallel lines icon Align Left.

c)Now add your front matter, title, copyright etc. You don't need a picture cover inside your document. See Amazon Kindle's Simplified Formatting Guide.

d) Now for the spacings. This is where it's a bit weird. Have your text run continuously between each chapter, if a heading within a chapter is at the bottom of the page don't move it to the next page because once it transfers to Kindle the text will keep on running consecutively. Keep sub-headings close together, don't space things out or huge gaps will appear in the kindle doc. What you do need to do is space between the front pages and between the chapters. So when you want a new page click PAGE BREAK at the top of your screen (Sometimes found at INSERT > Break > Page Break).

e) Check your spacings by hitting the Backward P in your Word toolbar (CTRL+8/APPLE+8). You will then be able to see where the page breaks are and make sure they're all there.

Don't worry about hyperlinking chapter headings. It's necessary for non-fiction so that readers can jump to the required chapters, but not absolutely needed for fiction. Don't put page numbers in either, ebook Masters don't need page numbers.

Save Word to HTML Web page (if you have pictures, you can skip this and load in Word, spacings may be less accurate & need more adjusting. If you have "HTML Filtered" option, choose this, pictures sometimes load well with this, sometimes not at all.):

Click FILE > where it says Save As > scroll down to "Save As Web Page".

You'll now have 2 files, your Master and your HTML Web Page Master. The latter is the one you load to KDP. But first load to your Kindle (or Calibre see below) read through to check for formatting and spacing issues.

LOAD TO AMAZON

First, if you have any problems, Amazon digital email help:

kdp-support/at/amazon.com are helpful and usually quick to respond.

Now go to Amazon's Digital Text Platform, KDP https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/signin.

If you don't have a reader account with Amazon, create one.

SIGN IN

Click GETTING STARTED & FAQs. Under the GETTING STARTED GUIDE > Publish Your Content

Scroll down to START HERE TO PUBLISH YOUR CONTENT > Enter Your Product Details

And you arrive at the first page of your dashboard.

Bookmark it so that you can find it easily whenever you need to:

Click BOOKMARK at top of screen > Bookmark this Page

Enter Details

The dashboard is your control panel.

Add:

The title of your book

Add Contributors:

Put your author name in.

Language etc are self-explanatory.

Ignore ISBN, you don't need that.

As long as all the work is your own, click 'This is not a public domain work'.

Target Your Book to Customers comes next. Choose two categories that most closely fit your title.

Search keywords: enter up to 7 key words that relate to your book. Separate each one by a comma. Think carefully as keywords really are key to bringing readers to your book sales page.

Upload Your Book Cover. Have it ready and waiting on your Desktop - click Browse for image and select the file name.

Enable DRM - click "Do not enable digital rights management" (see main book for details).

Upload Your Book File. Hit Browse and select the HTML file you made earlier. When you get the green tick and 'Upload and conversion successful, click PREVIEW BOOK.

A little screen will open with your Kindle book on it. Now go through the preview window and see how it looks. To correct any spacings, put your original Word Master MS up on the screen, click on the backward P thing to bring up the tab marks and other indent marks and go through your Kindle Preview and your MS together.

Retransfer your new Word Master to HTML, marked 2-titleoffile so you don't get it confused with your earlier draft. Browse and upload. Correct again until your satisfied. Keep words and headings close together for best results.

Click SAVE AND CONTINUE

Verify Your Publishing Territories

Click Worldwide rights, assuming nobody holds rights in any other country.

Choose Your Royalty. For a 70% Royalty charge $2.99 or above. For anything lower you'll need to go for the 35% royalty.

Kindle Book Lending. Tick Allow.

Tick Accept Terms and conditions.

Tick Save And Publish.

You're on.

It takes anything from a couple of hours to 48 hours for your book to appear. When it does, buy it and read it through again. If anything's not right, go to your bookmarked dashboard page and upload a corrected version. You can change your book as often as you like. You can change your price as often as you like. See what other books in your category are charging and take it from there.

Step by Step Guide To Making A Basic Epub Master for Direct Loading To Kobo Writing Life (Plus Other Epub Sales Platforms - iBooks, NOOK Etc.)

Make a new copy of your Kindle Word document and label it TitleofBook-KOBO.doc.

Go through the text and take out any references that you may have in your front and back idents which refer to Amazon. You may be asking readers to kindly think about reviewing your book on Amazon, for example. Delete, or change 'Amazon' to 'Kobo'.

Make sure your chapter listings are listed straight through from beginning to end with no breaks. How To Publish An Ebook On A Budget - An Author's Guide, for example, (from which this guide is extracted) is divided into four parts. My original index was divided by these part separations. This threw up an almighty storm when it came to the ePub reader trying to decipher chapter separation in its Table of Contents and the whole thing crashed. So it's chapter listing, if you have them, at the front of your document reading simply all the way through: 1,2,3 etc.

Save as HTML ("Web Page") ("filtered" if you have that option).

Now to download the free ebook reading and creation tool Calibre http://calibre-ebook.com/. If you're using an older version of Calibre on an old Mac this might not work. You'll have to beg or borrow a PC or modern Mac that will download the latest version of Calibre which is a breeze, formatting-wise, compared to the older versions. Watch the simple tutorial video which shows you what all the basic buttons do.

First make a new file on your desktop to store Calibre ebooks. Open the list of computer files and folders at your computer START or Apple Finder button. The list will be something like ComputerUser'sName/Documents/Music/Games/Computer/Control Panel. You need to click the Computer User's Name, which will probably be your login name at the top of the list. Then go to > New Folder and label it CALIBRE. You will now have a Calibre Folder on your desktop.

Open the Calibre Dashboard. Click "ADD BOOKS" top Left. > Look for your ComputerUsersName label > from there you can get to your documents. Select your Kobo HTML file.

It will be added to your Calibre library.

On the Calibre Dashboard, select little arrow next to Blue EDIT METADATA icon, top row left.

Select "Edit Metadata Individually".

Check title and author are filled in correctly. If your ebook is already online, go to bottom and click "Download Metadata" and Calibre will automatically fill in description, cover etc.

If the ebook and/or cover isn't online click "Change Cover" "Browse" to find your cover to add.

Now click the brown "convert books" icon at the top next to Metadata icon.

A window will open. On the left near the bottom you'll see the blue EPUB OUTPUT arrow. Click.

A wheel will spin on the bottom right. When this has stopped. You'll see, on the right just below the cover image, that EPUB has been added to the formats.

Now get rid of the ZIP format. Right click the ZIP ident and hit delete.

Click on the title in your Calibre listing. A window will open, select the 3rd option down "SAVE TO DISC" > then 4th option "Save only Epub Format to Disc In Single Directory".

Click "Desktop" > highlight "Calibre Books" and click "Select Folder".

You are now done with Calibre. Don't forget to Donate if you can afford to give the Calibre people anything for providing this service free of charge.

Now go to Kobo Writing Life. Scroll down to bottom of page and click START PUBLISHING.

The interface is very simple to follow. Fill in the title, author details and book description.

When you're prompted to upload your Epub book, you'll see that Calibre has exported 3 files to the folder on your desktop. Select the top "EPUB" file, not the jpeg image or the OPF File (idents are on the far right of the line).

When it has uploaded you're invited to preview your Kobo ebook.

Look through - checking especially for spacings and that the chapter listings on the left hand side have come out OK.

If you're happy with the content, continue. If not, delete the file from Calibre, re-edit your master, retransfer to HTML and load to Calibre again.

Next you're asked to apply Digital Rights Management, which is set to default at YES. And then Geographic Rights, default set to YES.

My query to Kindleboards on DRM resulted in the advice not to apply DRM, so I choose not to do this and select NO. As I hold world rights on my title I keep the YES there.

Set the price and hit PUBLISH.

Don't forget to fill out your account details so that royalties can be paid directly into your bank account every month.

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15 Tips for Finding Someone to Write Your eBook

So you've decided to get into the internet marketing business. And of course, you've decided that you need an eBook in order to drive your opt-in page. Or maybe you've been hearing about the Kindle and Amazon. And you've decided to make a quick couple of bucks by putting your own book up. Or maybe you have a company and want to encourage pre-qualified customers to call.

There's only one problem -- you can't write! So what can you do?

One of the best techniques is to hire a ghostwriter to write your book for you. But hiring a ghostwriter for the first time can be a scary proposition. In this article, I'm going to give you fifteen tips to help you negotiate the moors and actually produce a useful book. Before you start, I want to qualify my article somewhat. We're talking about a high quality book that you can be proud of producing. There is a world of difference between a proper book (eBook or print) and a ten-page report.

So given that caveat:

1. Don't use same person you would use to produce search engine marketing articles. SEO articles are articles you use for article marketing or blog marketing. Their purpose is to drive traffic to your site. The current price you pay for a 500-word article marketing or SEO article precludes quality.

2. Know what you want before you go out looking. There is a big difference between a 25-page PLR quality book, a 200 page executive book, and a four hundred page textbook.

3. Know what style you want. There is a difference between formal, informal, and "try to sound like me". While most ghostwriters can switch between formal and informal, imitating your speech patterns can be difficult.

4. Know what rights you really want and need. The more rights, the higher the cost will be. Although it's not as straight forward as in traditional publishing, since ghostwriters typically sell all rights. For example, will their name be on the eBook or just yours? Can they use the book for their own promotion? Can they disclose that they wrote the book or is it a secret?

5. Be clear & upfront with all ghostwriters about your requirements. You're more likely to get what you want without later arguments. Remember that these people are freelance contractors. Copyright laws favor them as the creator.

6. If you know someone who has used a ghostwriter, ask him or her for a recommendation.

7. Do a web search (in other words a Google search) for ghostwriters, or use a Writers' Union or Guild to find professionals.

8. Try using Kijiji or Craigslist. However, be very clear with your ad as to what your expectations are.

9. Do not use freelancing websites such as eLance or Guru or similar. They tend to focus on lower priced talent. Save these for article marketing writers and similar quality products.

10. Ask for samples of previous work (ghostwritten or otherwise). If possible, these use the same type of style as you are looking for.

11. Check for spelling mistakes & grammar mistakes. Some mistakes on a website are for SEO reasons. However, most writers hate spelling and grammar mistakes. Books and commercial articles should have no spelling errors and few grammatical errors.

12. Look for a native speaking writer. Someone from China or India might be able to write sufficiently for an SEO article. However, a real eBook or a book is another issue.

13. Pay as you go (progress bill) or use an escrow service. For example, 10% on acceptance, 10% on outline, 10% after each chapter (presuming eight chapters). If you pay up front, there is always the chance that your writer will disappear with your money. Just one more reason to deal with a professional ghostwriter.

14. Be prepared to pay from $5,000 to $10,000 or more, for a quality eBook. Professional ghostwriters charge anywhere from 20 cents to $1.00 a word or more. So prices can spiral quickly. Don't forget to set a budget and be prepared to negotiate your expectations. Don't forget to include the cost of editing, reformatting, and graphic design in your budget.

15. You get what you pay for.

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EBook Marketing - Another Underestimated Traffic Source

Let me share with you today a fantastic traffic source that is being VERY much underrated...

Are you creating quality articles for your business providing value to the community? Are you submitting these articles to Article Directories? Are you sharing these articles within your personal Blog?

What if I tell you that you can submit your article in a complete different way, adding this new method to your Traffic Sources arsenal?

Have you heard before about eBook Marketing?

If not, I will enlighten you right away...

What if you grab one of your articles, and create an eBook from it? Are you getting the idea?

You can add a nice title, a table of contents... you can add some pictures (public domain or self-made) and Congratulations! You have just made an eBook from your article.

Of course you should make an eBook from an article that has 1000 words or more, because it has no sense to create a 3 paged eBook... Ok, you can do it, but personally if I am a visitor and I see an eBook with 3 pages, I will keep reading something else because it does not call my attention at all...

But If I see an eBook with a nice and catchy title, a table of contents, more than 15 pages, it will definitely call my attention, and so it will for your prospects!

So... what do you think about this? With a single article you have the opportunity to share it in another traffic source, to maximize your visibility chances even more...

You can add some affiliate link within the content, and also you can create a footer section with the URL of your blog, or your squeeze page. Use your imagination and you can do tons of things within the content of your eBook!

Ok... I've just created the eBook... so where can I upload it?

You can upload it into eBook Directories (search for "eBook Directories" in Google), just like Article Directories but for eBooks... more free targeted visitors for your business and even more exposure and back-links for your website!

There are many sites and this could be time-consuming, but it is really worth it, and many of them will make your eBook rank high in Google searches.

So... let's go back to the main topic, if you didn't know before about this traffic source, it's time to invest some time and create eBooks from your best articles don't you think?

I will give you one last TIP before I finish with this post today...

When you upload an eBook to an eBook Directory, you have to place a nice and catchy title to attract people's attention... but that's not all, some sites like Scribd will use this title to show the name of the eBook as a title in SERPS. So a bit of Keyword research won't be harmful...

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Making Money Online With E-Books Is Easier Today Than It Was A Year Ago

People who are interested in making money online with e-books often times wonder whether or not the opportunity window has closed. In other words, what they are basically asking themselves is whether or not it's really any easier to make money with e-books today than it might have been a year ago. Some people are under the mistaken assumption that the process has gotten significantly more challenging as time has gone on.

In reality, more and more people have become acclimated with the idea of purchasing electronic books. This is largely due to the fact that various e-readers have become increasingly popular. As a result of the fact that more people now have special devices that enable them to read e-books, the popularity of this particular type of digital publication has simply exploded.

Ironically, people who started their e-book businesses many years ago will be the first to tell you that things have really changed. It's not that things have gotten more difficult, it's quite the opposite. It has become increasingly easy for anybody regardless of experience to get started selling e-books on the Internet. We're not really talking about a business that requires a lot of startup capital or that requires that the aspiring e-book publisher have extensive experience in writing or publishing.

What's most important is that anybody who seriously interested in making money on the Internet with the books have a positive attitude and be open-minded. The reason why these two attributes are so important is because with the right attitude, all of the challenges that will inevitably arise can quickly and easily be overcome. The same cannot be said when somebody has a negative outlook and is coming into the business with preconceived notions that it's going to be difficult or nearly impossible to have any success.

To the extent you happen to be an individual who has been thinking about getting started with e-books, now is a great time to get started. Don't allow yourself to buy into the mistaken belief that it was somehow easier or more lucrative to get started as an e-book publisher many years ago. The simple fact of the matter is that it's significantly less challenging to build a successful e-book business today than it was a year ago. The tools and services that are now available to aspiring e-book publishers makes the process significantly easier.

Don't forget, things will always change in the e-book industry. You have to be open-minded to that fact. By having a positive attitude and a can-do spirit, there's really nothing holding you back from having a lot of success in this business.

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Web Marketing Strategies: Why You Should Publish on Kindle

More and more people are publishing their eBooks on Kindle. Should you publish on Kindle? Yes, and here's why.

What is the Kindle?

The Kindle is an electronic device made by Amazon.com that is about the size of a large paperback book. On this device, people read electronic versions of books. Because of this, they don't have a traditional computer-type screen. Rather, they have a screen designed to mimic what a printed book looks like. With the Kindle, though, you can change the size of the type, zoom in on a page, search for specific words and jump to a chapter without all that inconvenient fumbling around with pages.

There are also apps that let people read Kindle books on their computer, their phones and their tablet devices such as the iPad.

If you are marketing on the web, you should always be looking for ways to get your ideas and your name in front of more and more people. Sales of Kindle books have boomed in the last year or so. If you already have any free reports, any eBooks that you've created to either give away or sell, any series of blog posts that you could put together into a book, you can put them on Kindle and sell them to one of the largest markets on the planet: Amazon.com.

Is it Hard?

Getting a book ready for Kindle is fairly straight forward. For a simple report or eBook, simpler is better. There are lots of instructional videos and forums on the Internet that can help you get everything in order and uploaded.

Sing up for a free account at Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) to get started. You set your own prices for your eBooks and Amazon only takes a small percentage. You get the rest. You also get your name in front of more people, and you can include live links back to your site or sites within the book itself.

Be sure to use key words in your book title and the book description. Also, do an Amazon search for other books on your topic to see what they have used. Check Google Keyword Tools to see what people are generally searching for. When you use this information, it will make it much easier for people to find your eBook.

Getting your eBook on Kindle is a great way to get people to know about you, get people to your web pages AND make a buck or two.

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How To Easily Use A Very Low Priced Kindle Book To Bring In Customers

Step by step selling is a concept that many successful internet entrepreneurs use very effectively. In fact some will set up an eight, nine, ten or even twelve step process to sell to customers. The reasons are quite simple when you think about it. The customer becomes ever more familiar with you and your services or products and you build up a trust based relationship that results in a sale.

Kindle now offers an extraordinarily easy way. That is simply publishing a mini book at a very low price which gives people great value for money. When potential customers see a product published at a price of under a pound sterling or just two dollars, their natural reaction is usually "What do I have to lose?" This is also very appropriate nowadays as for whatever reason many people want to gain access to information in "sound bites" and either do not want to or do not have the time to read a lot. Therefore a well written book of say one hundred or so pages can do a number of things that raise your profile in your client's eyes. It can establish you as an expert, It can educate your client (every business needs to educate their clients in some way, even if it only to their own philosophy and way of working) Above all it gives you a chance to provide links to more information or your website or a squeeze page. In many ways it is advertising that pays for itself.

So how can you go about setting yourself up as an author. The first step of course is to write your mini book. The way many people recommend this be done is to think of your area of expertise or interest and then consider and write down the ten main problems people experience in your area. You may well say that if you are for instance selling anything to do with wedding or your site sells kitchen gifts that you are not in the business of problem solving. However a book entitled "The ten things to be aware of to make your perfect day just that" in the case of weddings or "Ten simple kitchen arrangement plans that can save you loads of space" would be entirely relevant in these cases. Some people like to write, some don't.If you fall into the latter category, simply record your thoughts in an MP3 file and use one of the very good outsourcing services like Fiverr to have them transcribed. You can also use Fiverr to find someone to produce a great graphic design for your cover.

Next you need to learn how to format and publish your book. Just using a simple search on the search engines will give you a very good start and if this is not enough, there are plenty of books in your local library on the subject. Bear in mind that it has to be done properly or it will not be accepted. However like all things practice makes perfect. Worried about your book being ranked well enough for people to find it? Why not use your Twitter, FB or YouTube accounts to spread the word. In addition go to Fiverr again and find people who will broadcast your book for you to tens of thousands of others.

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If I Write an Ebook, How Can I Make It Valuable to Readers?

This article will address the question authors should ask before writing an ebook. That question is, "how can I make my eBook valuable to readers?". We live in an age now that is so competitive for eBook authors. Therefore, we must deliver content that goes beyond providing information someone can get on some forum or community-driven website. We must set a goal to add great value with our information. In this article, I provide two goals every author of ebooks should aim to achieve.

Goal 1 - Don't Just Teach, Show The internet is saturated with ebooks on virtually every topic, so as I alluded to earlier, the competition is great. One of the things that will set you apart as an eBook author is to create ebooks that don't merely provide instruction. Go beyond the norm and add demonstrations for how the reader should accomplish what you're teaching.

You see, one of my favorite advantages that ebooks have over traditional books is the ability to insert links within the text and even images that are hyperlinked. Now some authors insert affiliate links in their text, but I hardly ever do that because people don't like to be pitched to. I prefer to insert links to tutorials I've created to demonstrate something I just taught. This method is a great way to add greater value than the average eBook writer provides. Truth is, most eBook writers won't go the trouble to create tutorials that demonstrate their instruction, mainly because it's time consuming. Be different and take the time to go beyond merely teaching your customers, show them how to implement what you teach.

Goal 2 - Change Lives Since there are probably other ebooks being sold in your market, you will need to have a different mindset and approach than most of the other writers in your niche in order to have an edge. I encourage you to set a goal before writing your next eBook to not only teach and demonstrate information, but to also consider how you can change a person's life. In the planning phase before you begin writing, constantly ask yourself this question. Even when you're writing your ebook, ask it before creating the next section or chapter. You'll be surprised how this mindset changes your approach. Changing lives is a much loftier and rewarding goal than making money.

I encourage you to implement these two goals when planning and writing your next ebook. You will not only set yourself apart from the crowd, but will also make a significant difference in the lives of others.

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Formatting Secrets for Kindle and Nook EBooks

Formatting an eBook for use on a web site or for sending by email using the PDF file format is relatively easy. Most popular word processors and page design programs can export to the PDF file format and those exports usually accurately render the PDF to match the original created in Word, InDesign, or whatever. Formatting for the Amazon Kindle or Barnes & Nook is a completely different proposition. Some programs like InDesign have plug-ins that supposedly save to the eBook format, but these are notoriously inaccurate. So exactly how do you properly, and easily, format a file for Kindle or Nook?

The Kindle format and also the Nook format are based on HTML, so the obvious answer to the previous question is to do your formatting in HTML. Most word processors and page layout programs can save to HTML, so that is the first step. Then open the file in your favorite HTML editor, I like using Dreamweaver but all of these techniques are done at the code view so any standard HTML editor will work. You can even use a plain text editor like Windows Notepad if you like. The Kindle Fire can take some HTML 5 coding with CSS3, but we will be sticking with more basic formatting in this discussion.

What we want is basic HTML, with all excessive formatting removed. If you are formatting for the Kindle and there is a cover image, remove it. Kindle works best if you upload the cover image separately from the eBook file. In the Nook you can leave it attached. For a professional look you want to start the actual eBook with a Title Page, followed by a Copyright Page. You only need basic information on the Title Page, first of course the title of the eBook as text, don't use a picture for the title, keep it text. You can follow this by a smaller picture similar to the cover of the book if you like, but don't put a small image of the cover here. That just looks unprofessional. What I frequently do is to use the same art as the cover if it is interesting enough but without the text.

The copyright page can contain a lot of information but the most important part is a properly formatted copyright. This is in the form of "copyright date name", here is an example: copyright 2012 George Peirson. You can replace copyright with the copyright symbol if you like. One more thing the copyright holder has to be either an individual or corporation (which are individuals as far as the US Government is concerned). Aside from corporations, companies cannot own copyrights. So either a person's name, or a corporation name, no business names, no doing business as, no partnerships, etc.

Next you will have your table of contents, followed by the rest of the book. We will now look at more specific HTML level formatting techniques.

Start by cleaning out all of the extraneous coding, span tags, any font tags or CSS styling, etc. Leave in paragraph tags or div tags as needed, but pretty much take everything else out. We basically want to start from scratch and keep the formatting to a minimum for the widest compatibility. If you use a program like Dreamweaver you can use the Find and Replace function to speed up this task. Lets say that you have paragraph tags with some formatting in them like this [p class="bodytext"], instead of looking through all of your code and removing each instance of [class="bodytext"], instead do a search for [p class="bodytext"] and replace with [p]. Also remove any span tags and don't forget to remove the closing tags as well, [/span]

We will next put in page breaks as needed, normally you would want each new chapter to start at the top of its own page, and of course the Title Page should be on one page and the Copyright Page should have its own page as well. To start a page at the top of the page on Kindle put in a page break in the code. Make sure you use a page break after the Title Page, after the Copyright page, after the Table of Contents, to give the eBook a professional look. The page break tag goes at the top of the new page in the code view, for instance at the beginning of each chapter before you start any text on that page. Here is the tag to use, this is a special tag that you will not find in normal HTML: [mbp:pagebreak /]. Just put it on its own line inside of tag symbols in the code at the beginning of each new chapter.

Now for some basic paragraph formatting. Of course you will be putting your paragraphs in paragraph tags, [p] paragraph text goes here [/p]. You can put in basic paragraph attributes into the opening paragraph tag, the most commonly used one is the align attribute. Simple to use, it goes like this:

[p align="left"] for left alignment,

[p align="center"] for center alignment

[p align="right"] for right alignment

Another attribute is align="justify" to force full justification, but eBooks fully justify by default so you can ignore this one.

The paragraph tag will leave a blank line between paragraphs, if you want your paragraphs to be continuous without blank lines then use a break tag instead, [br /]. Put one of these at the end of each paragraph break in your text and then begin the next line (no opening paragraph tag). To put a space between paragraphs use multiple break tags.

When you bump paragraphs together like this you will need a larger indent on the first line to easily spot the beginning of each paragraph, you can create the indent by using non-breaking spaces, here is the code "&" followed by "nbsp", you can put as many as you need, each one is a single space. I have found that 5-9 of these at the beginning of a paragraph gives a nice looking indent. You can use spacing attributes in the opening paragraph tag for indenting the first line, but it is not as reliable as the non-breaking space, so I stick with that in most cases.

You can indent the text on the left and right by using Block Quotes, basically adding margins to the page. Be aware though that on the earlier Black & White Kindles the right margin may be ignored.

[blockquote] text [/blockquote]

You can put several paragraphs between one set of block quotes, and you can double up or triple up on the blockquotes to add larger margins, useful for poems and such.

Put in Bold and Italics as needed using standard tags, b for bold and i for italics

You can also use the different H tags for sizing your text, although I have found that only the larger H tag numbers work reliably. [h1] title text [/h1], [h2] not as large [/h2], etc. The H tags go from 1 to 6 but I have found that only h1 through h3 work reliably on all devices. So these are good for titles, page headings, and such.

Use H tags to size title and other large text like this:

[h1] title of eBook [/h1]

[h2] subtitle of eBook [/h2]

[h2] chapter titles [/h2]

You can put in alignment attributes into H tags, like this: [h1 align="center"].

Next position and format your images. I recommend sticking with left, right, or center alignment and keep your images on the smaller size. If the image is too large it will be resized by the eBook reader to fit the page and you will have one big image with no text. This is one spot where you may want to do some testing to get just the right size depending on your needs.

Once the basic formatting is in place you can set up the Table of Contents. Use anchor tags to create links for a Table of Contents. If you do this right after the title page and name it Table of Contents Kindle will know what it is and use this list for the Kindle TOC at the end of the book.

An Anchor tag looks like this: [a name="11" id="11"] (inside of tag symbols of course)

Place this at the top of each chapter, after the page break tag we included previously. You can name the anchor tags anything you want, but I find it easy to just number them. The example above is for chapter 11.

Now go up to your Table of Contents page and use standard links on that text to link back to your anchor tags. Here is how the link for chapter 11 looks in the TOC.

[a href="#11"] Chapter 11[/a] (again with the correct tag symbols surrounding the tag)

You can name your chapter anchor tags anything you like, maybe you have a collection of short stories and your Table of Contents lists the story titles instead of chapters, this is fine. But if you use the word Chapter in the Table of Contents Kindle will ignore any other links on that page when making the Kindle Table of Contents (in the Kindle controls and at the end of the eBook). So if you have this:

Forward

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Epilogue

The Kindle will only use:

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

In your eBook's Table of Contents, of course your TOC with all of your anchor tags will work correctly, but if someone uses the TOC control in Kindle they will not see the Forward or Epilogue links in this example. This does not happen if you don't use the word Chapter. I am not sure why this is so and I discovered this by accident, but after a lot of testing it seems to be consistent. So either use all Chapters (chapter 1 - Forward, chapter 2, chapter 3, chapter 4 - Epilogue) or don't use the word Chapter in the TOC.

You can use standard links in the text and at the end of the book for links to web pages, etc. These will work fine, but to be safe keep any external links off of the Table of Contents page. If you want a list of links at the front of the book put them on their own page after the TOC.

One more tip on designing your book, make sure you have a good Forward or First Chapter. Amazon previews the first 10% of the book in their Look Inside tool in their Kindle Store, so you want the first 10% to grab the attention of the reader so that they will buy your book. Don't fill the front of the book with advertising, save that for the end, and don't put a bunch of pictures at the front of the book as well. Make sure you have some quality text in the first 10% to maximize your exposure and sales.

This will take care of almost all of your formatting needs and make your book easily convertible to both the Kindle and Nook platforms. You can get a lot fancier if you need to, but this really is most of the formatting that most books use.

You should do a lot of testing to make sure that your formatting works, I recommend using a program named Calibre to convert your HTML to the MOBI format for the Kindle and the ePUB format for use on the Nook. You should use either the computer version of the Kindle Reader and the Nook Reader to check the formatting after conversion, or better still use an actual Kindle or Nook. Don't rely on the Reader in Calibre as it is not accurate. One more tip, I have found that if I need to change or fix the formatting I need to remove the eBook from the Kindle Reader and also remove the eBook from Calibre, then re-import the fixed HTML back into Calibre, re-convert to MOBI or ePUB, and re-install in the Reader, otherwise I have found that the changes don't always take.

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Similarities Between E-Book Readers and Notebooks

E-book readers bear some features with tablet computers in a number of ways. The similarities between these two devices have led to a lot of confusion as one is mistaken for the other. To begin with, both devices are mobile, handheld and are also very portable. An average e-book reader weighs about only 8 ounces, and that is very close to a notebook's weight of about 15 ounces. Also, there is a very close similarity of their screen sizes.

The second similarity lies in their display modes and technology. Notebooks essentially use back lit LCD screens for their display. Other than the e-book readers that use e-ink technology for their display, the rest use LCD technology, similar to notebooks. The use of LCD display is however not very beneficial as it consumes a lot of battery power and not very visible in bright sunshine.

Another similarity lies in their wireless ability to surf and access the internet. The two devices are both equipped with in built wireless access to the internet. Users can surf the net and download their favorite eBooks at anytime and anywhere as long as there is a good internet access. Although this is a similarity, it can be noted that notebooks have a faster surfing speed compared to e-book readers.

The two devices have the capability of online backup. They both have an inbuilt online backup capability that enables users to automatically back up their data in online servers. Users can upload a variety of files for backup on online severs.

Newer versions of e-book readers can now support some audio features that include text to speech and music playback. This has made them similar to notebook computers that are designed to support these features and a range of others. This ability allows the users of the two devices to listen to some background music as they read their favorite e-books.

A major similarity between the two devices is their ability to download and display e-books. With the introduction of applications for laptops, notebooks and even android devices, it has become possible for notebooks to perform e-book reading operations. This has made them similar to e-book readers which are designed for the primary purpose of reading e-books as well as other written works in digitalized form.

The two devices are both ideal devices for research work. For starters, both devices come with an inbuilt dictionary that allows users to look up definitions and meanings of words as they read eBooks for research purposes. They also support note making and keyword highlighting capabilities which adds to the research functions for students and also other users. These are among the numerous similarities that exist between notebooks and e-book readers.

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Avoid The Biggest Mistake Made By The Overwhelming Majority Of Aspiring E-Book Publishers

One of the biggest mistakes that the overwhelming majority of aspiring e-book publishers make when they are just getting started in this business is to try to do everything themselves. This isn't to suggest that you need to spend a lot of money hiring other people to do everything for you -- that itself can be problematic if you don't have a lot of money and are just getting started.

You may discover that you were very good at creating the content that will go inside of the e-book. Alternatively, you may discover that you're a lot better at creating a beautiful looking cover graphic. It's also entirely possible that your true strength may be on the sales and marketing side of the business. In my experience, it can be very difficult for a person to be exceptionally good at everything. Furthermore, it can actually make it significantly harder for you to be successful as an e-book publisher if you're trying to do everything yourself.

You need to start this entire process with a clearly defined goal of what you'd like to achieve in this business. For most people, that means coming up with a specific amount of money to make every month. You then need to think about what activities will help move you closer to reaching that goal in the shortest amount of time possible. In my experience, activities that revolve around coming up with new e-book topics and focusing on sales and marketing can help virtually anybody reach the financial goal they have established for themselves in a very short period of time.

This means you'll need to get comfortable with the idea that somebody else will create the e-book content. While it's true that this can mean hiring a ghostwriter, it can also mean acquiring the rights to an e-book that has already been published by an individual or organization who specialize in creating e-book content. You can then hire somebody to create a brand-new e-book cover that looks different, and you can basically start focusing on making sales.

At the end of the day, all that ultimately matters to the overwhelming majority of people who buy an e-book is that they are getting access to information that either helps them solve a problem or helps enhance the enjoyment they experience with a hobby or activity that they enjoy. Give people what they want, and they'll come back and buy from you over and over again.

Just be sure you don't fall into the trap of feeling as if though you need to personally handle all aspects of your e-book publishing business. Pick and choose the specific activities that you feel you are best suited to, and figure out a way for somebody else to help you do the rest. It is also in your best interest to follow a step-by-step blueprint that can help you avoid costly trial and error. I'm convinced that you can make a lot of money as an e-book publisher if you're willing to roll up your sleeves and get to work.

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