Pros And Cons To Writing Your eBook Yourself
Many individuals, endeavoring to make money, are looking for ways that will permit them to work at their own tempo or to be their own boss. It may be that you are one of these individuals and it is likely that you have thought about creating and selling eBooks yourself.
The popularity of eBooks has increased vigorously over the past few years. Many of the top book stores now have the capability to deliver eBooks. This is great news for the consumer since they can now read their books on their portable devices. From traditional eBook novels to romance eBooks and fiction eBooks, the subjects for an eBook library are almost endless.
More and more consumers have exposed an interest in purchasing eBooks – for the convenience, and, in many cases, because of the less expensive purchase cost – many individuals are now seeking to make money from creating their own eBooks. If you are proficient enough to do this, you may find success. However, to find success in creating eBooks, it will not come without hard work.
You will likely find it difficult to understand how much work it actually does entail if you have created an eBook before. You may need to write guides, reports or how-to’s, but unless you are an authority in your field, you will have to do research, and this will take a reasonable amount of time. On the other hand, you may want to write a novel, but to be valuable, most eBooks are at least one hundred pages long – with many being longer. Your eBook could take months to complete. In addition to the hard work of researching and preparing your eBook, you must have writing experience. It is a fact that customers do not, and will not, purchase poor quality work.
You will have to think about ways of selling it as well as writing a quality eBook. Combining the writing and the marketing, both these aspects could take a very large amount of time. This is, perhaps, why so many promising eBook writers are put off the idea of creating their own eBook, no matter how rewarding creating your own product will be.
If you propose to sell eBooks as a means of income and do not want to trouble yourself with the work involved in creating your own product, there is another option. You do not necessarily have to create your own; you can purchase the private label rights to somebody else’s creation. By purchasing the private label rights you will be able – in many cases – to edit the content, assume the work as your own and profit from the sale of each eBook.
Clearly, there are downsides to obtaining Private Label Rights and the largest of these is the cost required to purchase those rights. Depending on who you are doing business with to purchase your private label rights eBook, this could be rather expensive. The more exclusive your supplier is, the higher the cost is going to be also. This is simply because the freelance writers, who will spend a large amount of time creating their eBooks, are going to seek adequate compensation for their time.
An additional massive downside to obtaining private label rights to eBooks is the availability. The more available it is, then the more chance that every man and his dog will have also purchased those rights too, thus making it harder to make any sales. Some may say the freelance writers who charge more for their work will have typically produced better content in their eBooks and the better the content, the easier it will be to sell.
Whatever you decide, you will still have to find ways to market the eBook to the general public. In either case, marketing your eBook will take time. Purchasing Private Label Rights is preferred by many individuals because they can dedicate more time to marketing the product, which will obviously create more sales.
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As someone who's published three books (and working on my fourth), writing can be a pain, however I finish writing my books in just a week or two, and not months. Here are a few tips that will help speed up the process.
First, don't do any writing until you have all of your research.
Many people will sit and try to write and figure out as they go. Very few have an outline, but no "meat" yet. The hardest part of writing any book isn't the writing – it's the development.
Always have an outline of what you want to write about from start to finish BEFORE you write.
Secondly, rehearse your content so that you get the feel of the book and how it will flow. I employ the use of a recording device and speak out what I want to say as I go down through my outline.
As you do so, you'll find that you get ideas for new information, or remember points that you want to make – definitely write those down on your outline.
Thirdly, Pre-write. After you're done and you know how your book is going to flow, you have your notes, your research, and all of your details together, you pre-write your book.
This is where you simply write out the content for your book. Don't worry about page numbers, spelling and punctuation, format, or anything like that. The goal is to get out a readable draft.
After that is done, you proof read, correct and organize your book all at the same time. This last part is usually a few days for me because I'm a bit of a perfectionist.
As you go through, write down the page numbers of each section. This will eventually become your table of contents.
Once you're satisfied that the core of the book is done, have it proof read by a few people and get their feedback. A fresh pair of eyes is essential to writing good quality material.
Finally, while all of the information is still fresh, whip out your recorder and start creating your audio book, by simply reading back the book aloud.
As you do, you'll probably find a few things that you want to change or improve, however, unless it's a major problem, your goal is to get your book recorded with as little mistakes as possible.
Every step takes me only a few days now that I'm used to the process, with exception to research. For me I can take two to three weeks, depending on how deep I want to go.
Some books, because of interviews, travelling, etc. can take months, however for most books, (like information products), it only takes a week or two.
With that said, the research phase is often the longest, and it should be, because the more research you do, the better your book content will be. Don't skimp on the research!
I suggest using Microsoft Word when writing because it has automatic numbering features, page breaks, and really good tools for authoring.
How to make it an ebook?
I've been using a program called PrimoPDF (http://www.primopdf.com/) for years. After it's installed, from your word document you can select print.
When the options for a printer comes up, select Primo PDF as your printer and click print. You will get a pop up that converts your Word doc to PDF format.
Publishing – if you would like to publish your book, instead of spending thousands of dollars on a publishing company, I suggest Lulu.com
For self publishing, and purchase a distribution package that will get your book listed in major stores online and offline, such as Barnes & Nobles.
If you already have a large list, your first sales shouldn't be that difficult. I usually JV with others, or use my book as a front end, limited time offer to lead into my back end.
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I'm writing an eBook. It's frustrating but something I will be proud of. thanks