Creating Your Own E-book For Distribution
By Libby Sinclair


Creating your own e-book is an excellent way to generate traffic to
your site for free. Information products are the hottest items on the
internet right now. They are packed with great resources and your
visitor has immediate access to the information. Your e-book will
contain links back to your website so every time someone downloads your
e-book, you are creating instant traffic for your product or service.
Of course, you have to write an e-book that people want. Here are some
tips to get you started;

1. Choose a subject to write about. Select something you enjoy or want
to know more about. You also want to write about something your
visitors are going to be interested in as well. Once you have
decided on a subject that interests you, head over to GoTo's Search
Term Suggestion page at
http://inventory.go2.com/inventory/Search_Suggestion.jhtml
Type in your subject and you can see how many people searched for
your term. Try different keywords until you find one that will
bring you results.

2. Now you need to start collecting the information to put in your
e-book. Go to any of the popular search engines and type in the
subject of your e-book. Pick out some of the more popular websites
and contact the website owners. Ask the website owner for permission
to use their website and/or links in your e-book. This is a win-win
situation. You get the information you need and it's free publicity
for the website owner. You can also add a link on your homepage or
in your newsletter asking people to contribute their links.

3. Once you have all of your information collected you have to start
oragnizing it. Create a new folder on your computer and label it
"Ebook". All of your html files/pages for your e-book will go in
this folder. Start by creating a table of contents page. Divide
your subject up into different categories and start creating pages
for each category. You should now have quite a few html documents
in your "Ebook" folder containing your table of contents page as
well as all of your category pages.

4. When visitors download your e-book, you will want to provide them
with links back to your site. You may choose to use text links
throughout your e-book, however, you will probably want an
attractive banner and/or logo on the cover. Here are a few places
you can create your own banner or logo online for free;

Cool Text - http://www.cooltext.com
Create your own customized logos for free.

Instant Online Banner Creator - http://www.crecon.com/banners.html
Create your own custom banner. Excellent banner template selection

5. Now it is time to put everything in e-book format. Fortunately there
are a lot of products available that will do this task for you.
I've listed below some of the free and low cost e-book creation
products/services available;

Free Ebook Creation Service - http://www.hmoore.com/ebookprofitinfo.htm
They will create your ebook for free in exchange for adding their
link to your cover page

Win Ebook Compiler - http://superwin.com/super.htm
This software will compile and create your ebook. $39.95


6. Now start giving your e-book away. Add a link for your e-book on
your homepage and in your newsletter. Send it out to all of your
friends. Offer it as a free gift to ezine publishers. The ezine
publisher benefits by offering great content to their readers and
you get extra publicity. Below are a few ebook directories where
you can submit your ebook for free;

Biz Web Solutions Ebook Directory -
http://www.bizwebsolutions.com/download/downloads

The eBook Directory -
http://the-ebook-directory.com

About.com Ebook Directory -
http://pages.about.com/publishingadm/ebooks1.html

Start creating your own free ebook now!

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