Creating Ebooks from Start to Finish - Part 1
by Greg Spence
(c) 2000 Greg Spence.


If you want to succeed as an author on the Internet you have
to learn how to write and produce Ebooks. They are
inexpensive to produce, compared to their hard-copy
counterparts, and can be downloaded and read online. This is
becoming more important as large numbers of Internet surfers
are looking for instant gratification.

The types of ebooks that sell well online are those of the
"How to" variety. This is because over 85% of people online
are looking for information that shows them how to do
something. Having said that Stephen King, the well known
horror genre author, recently released his latest book as an
ebook and sold 400,000 copies of it on the first day!

How's that for exposure (and income).

At the Get Published! website http://www.getpub.com I
provide a 4-step system that shows you how to publish,
promote and sell your books online. This is the same system
I use to successfully sell my own books. If you are
interested you can find the system at
http://www.getpub.com/pubonlin.htm .

Step 2 of the system provides resources and information to
help you turn your latest creation into an Ebook. If you
want to write an ebook but are short of ideas I suggest you
take "The InfoProduct Masters course" which is a FREE 5-day
email course that shows you how to create an ebook in just
10 days that you can then sell online.

To get the first lesson (it is FREE) send a blank email
to timsget-published@sitesell.net .


CREATING THE EBOOK


Once you have written your book you then need to turn it
into an electronic format that can be read on a computer
screen.

This is achieved by investing in some Ebook creation
software. Every day more and more such programs come onto
the market and it is becoming increasingly difficult to
decide which software to use.

To help you with this decision I have my favorite top 4
products. In this article I will discuss the first product,
Adobe Acrobat. In part 2 I will discuss my remaining top 3
and make my recommendation.


Adobe Acrobat http://www.adobe.com - with this product it
is possible for both PC and Mac owners to read your ebook.

You create your ebook by typing up your manuscript in a word
processor such as Microsoft Word then Acrobat converts it
into a PDF file, which stands for Portable Document Format.

You can include graphics and links similar to a web page to
make it easier for your readers to navigate. You can also
include links which jump to other PDF documents so you could
have a separate table of contents and index with links into
the main part of your ebook. Your links can even go to pages
on the web!

You can distribute your ebooks on the web, for immediate
download, on disk or even CD-ROM. Your readers will need to
use the Adobe Acrobat reader in order to be able to view
your ebook. This reader is free to anyone who wants it so
this is not a barrier to sales.

Acrobat also includes some nice security features including
the latest one which prevents readers from copying your
ebook to other computers so they are not able to pass it to
friends.

The one downside to Acrobat is its cost, around $249!

If you want to see what your ebook would look like before
committing yourself you can convert several pages to PDF
for FREE at http://createpdf.adobe.com .

SPECIAL TIP: There is a program that can create PDF files
without you having to own Acrobat. It is perfectly legal and
FREE but only runs on a PC. It is called Gymnast and you can
get it from http://www.oakworth.demon.co.uk/gymnast.htm .
It does not currently support all of the functionality of
Acrobat.

If you want to see how effective Acrobat can be, then you
should take a look at the ebook "Make Your Knowledge Sell"
by ebook master Ken Evoy. He has turned Adobe Acrobat ebook
production into a fine art and uses a lot of the power of
Acrobat in this ebook. Take a look at
http://www.getpub.com/myks/ .

By the way, this ebook is an excellent resource if you are
seriously looking at producing and selling ebooks on the
Internet.

In part 2 I will take a look at my remaining 3 favorite
programs and give you my recommendation.

If you need any further help then visit Get Published! and
use the Get Published! Online system at
http://www.getpub.com/pubonlin.htm .

Don't forget you can get a jumpstart and create an ebook
from scratch by taking "The Infoproduct Masters course" a
FREE 5-day email course on how to create an ebook in 10
days.

Send a blank email to timsget-published@sitesell.net and
receive the first lesson today.

Good luck with your publishing venture.

Greg Spence
Get Published! Online Website

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