eBook Publishing

Resources for eBook Publishing

1. You could create eBooks that you sell.
2. You could create eBooks that you give away free (and link to your web site or Ezine), to help promote your business.
3. You could create eBooks that you allow us to give away free (or even sell). Again, these eBooks could link to your web site or Ezine, thus helping promote your business.

• Activ E-Book Compiler
  This is our company's software for creating your own eBooks. It converts HTML files that you supply (HTML is the same format used for web pages), into an EXE format eBook. There is a free trial download available, if you want to see how it works.
  
  
• EBookPower.com
  This web site offers an optional add-on product compatible with Activ E-Book Compiler. The add-on allows you to add full screen videos, and other multimedia effects to your eBooks.
  
  
• EBookEnhance.com
  This web site contains a directory of tools for eBook publishers, most of the tools are compatible with Activ E-Book Compiler.
• CoverFactory
  This is our company's software for creating 3D-style eBook cover images. It allows even the non-artist to produce professional looking cover images. Again, there is a free trial download available, so you can try it before you decide if you want to buy it.
  
  
• EBookApprentice.com
  This is a free online tutorial about eBook publishing.
  
  
• EBookInterviews.com
  This is a free site containing interviews with several eBook publishers, who have written eBooks on a wide variety of different topics.
  
  
• EBookSubmit.com
  This web site contains ideas for marketing and promoting your eBooks.
  
  
• EBookFriends.com
  This is our discussion forum for eBook publishers. You are welcome to participate in the discusson whether or not you use our company's software.

• Reviews of eBook Publishing Tools + Tutorials

Smashwords Book Marketing Guide - How to Market any Book for Free (Smashwords Guides) By Mark Coker Smashwords Released: 2011-06-25 Kindle Edition (36 pages) List Price: $0.99* *(As of 12:36 Pacific 3 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Learn how to market any book. This popular book marketing primer has helped over 40,000 authors and publishers dramatically improve their book marketing results. The Smashwords Book Marketing Guide contains practical, easy-to-implement advice on how to market any book. 30 simple, do-it-yourself marketing tips explain not what you can do to market your book, but also explain the context and thinking behind each recommendation. The marketing techniques apply equally well to both ebooks and print books. Here's what you'll find in the Smashwords Book Marketing Guide: Table of Contents Introduction: About the Smashwords Book Marketing Guide Background on Smashwords Setting expectations How Smashwords helps authors and publishers market books Adopting a proactive marketing mindset Marketing starts now Hyperlinks help readers discover books The importance of authors helping authors 30 Marketing Tips (all free to implement!) Tip #1 – Update your email signature Tip #2 – Post a notice on your web site or blog Tip #3 – Contact your friends, family, co-workers and fans Tip #4 – Post a notice to your social networks Tip #5 – Update your message board signatures Tip #6 – How to reach readers with Twitter Tip #7 – Publish more than one book to create a multiplier effect Tip #8 – Advertise your other books in each book you publish Tip #9 – Make it easy for your readers to connect with you Tip #10 – Issue a press release on a free PR wire service Tip #11 – Join HARO, Help-a-reporter-online for free press leads Tip #12 – Encourage fans to purchase and review your book Tip #13 – Write thoughtful reviews for other books Tip #14 – Participate in online forums Tip #15 – Experiment with coupons Tip #16 – Write a blog Tip #17 – Write guest columns for blogs Tip #18 – Invite other authors to post to your blog Tip #19 – Do Q&A interviews of other authors on your blog Tip #20 – Join the conversation on blogs Tip #21 – Organize a blog tour Tip #22 – Use Google Alerts to discover where the conversations are taking place Tip #23 – Leverage YouTube videos to reach readers Tip #24 – Print up business cards Tip #25 – Encourage your fans to become affiliate marketers of your book Tip #26 – Create a reader’s guide at the end of your book Tip #27 – Insert sample chapters from your other books Tip #28 – Do a sample chapters swap with another author Tip #29 – Invite other authors to join you at Smashwords Tip #30 – Promote your book to the top ebook listing sites Tip #31 – Share these marketing tips with your fellow authors! Other Kindle Books by Mark Coker Smashwords Style Guide (how to format and produce an ebook) The 10-Minute PR Checklist - How to Earn the PublicityYou Deserve Boob Tube (a novel about soap operas) Connect with Mark Coker Connect with Smashwords authors

How to Market and Sell Your eBook - Everything You Need to Know to Make Money with ePublishing By Sarah Mae Released: 2011-06-27 Kindle Edition (47 pages) List Price: $4.99* *(As of 12:36 Pacific 3 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Why should print books have all the fun? You CAN earn a full-time income with ePublishing, and you don't have to be a superstar to do it. Sarah Mae is just an everyday person who happened to sell over 11,000 copies of her eBook in two months. Her goal with this eBook is to share with you what she's learned and how you can find success with ePublishing by offering people what they need in a way that has not been delivered to them yet. At the heart, this eBook is about communicating your passion to others in a new way, and then getting those ideas to the world, one practical and thrilling step at a time. More info. can be found at http://www.marketandsellyourebook.com "Sarah Mae's "How to Market and Sell Your eBook" takes you from A to Z in writing an eBook that sells. Not only that, this book is chock full of practical resources and inspiring tidbits about writing ideas worth sharing. Her early track record of success makes this evident, but the best part is that she teaches YOU how to do exactly what she has done — to write an eBook that earns you more money than you ever imagined." -Jeff Goins, goinswriter.com

How to Make, Market and Sell Ebooks - All for FREE: Ebooksuccess4free By Jason Matthews CreateSpace Paperback (168 pages) List Price: $9.99* Lowest New Price: $7.92* Lowest Used Price: $10.24* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 12:36 Pacific 3 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Have you written a book or are you writing one? Are you weighing options of what to do next? Then consider creating ebooks, because ebooks and the devices that read them are the fastest growing sectors in the publishing industry. Amazon has the Kindle, Barnes & Noble the Nook, Sony's got the Reader, Apple has the iPad, new tablets are emerging and Google Ebooks has been released. People even read on their cell phones. Ebook sales have already surpassed paper book sales. New and established writers must make their books available as ebooks. The tips within will save you time, money and energy while putting you on the fast track to selling ebooks. You'll learn to: Build and Maximize an Online Platform. Use Social Media wisely with Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, etc. Create a Professional Blog Site. Design effective Ebook Covers. Format and Upload for Amazon, Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, Apple's iBookstore and other Retailers. Convert your Documents to any Format (epub, mobi, pdf, lrf and others). Create a Professional Website. Utilize SEO (search engine optimization) to rise in Google-Yahoo-Bing rankings. Sell ebooks with PayPal and Shopping Carts from your own Sites. Use PR (public relations) to Drive Traffic to You. and much more. Plus you're going to do all these things for free! How to Make, Market and Sell Ebooks All for Free is packed with information, tutorials, over 200 links to sites and software that will help you accomplish these goals with retailers and at your own websites. The advice is simple enough for computer beginners and relevant to experts who could use extra guidance. If you want to make, market and sell ebooks and do it all for free, then this is a must read and the one source for everything it takes to succeed at this. First written in 2010, updated in 2012.

How I Sold 1 Million eBooks in 5 Months! By John Locke Telemachus Press, LLC Released: 2011-06-15 Kindle Edition List Price: $2.99* *(As of 12:36 Pacific 3 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Now, for the first time ever, John Locke reveals the marketing system he created to sell more than 1,100,000 eBooks in five months! His Credentials: John is the eighth author in the world—and the first self-published author in history—to have sold 1 million eBooks on Kindle! He is the first self-published author to hit #1 on the Amazon/Kindle Best Seller’s List, and the first to hit both #1 and #2 at the same time! He is a New York Times best-selling author! He has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and Entertainment Weekly! He has had 4 of the top 10 books on Amazon/Kindle at the same time, including #1 and #2! He has had 7 books in the top 34 and 8 books in the Top 50 at the same time! These numbers are not positions within a category. They are positions that include all Kindle sales including fiction, non-fiction, magazine subscriptions, and game apps! By the middle of March, 2011, it had been calculated that “every 7 seconds, 24 hours a day, a John Locke novel is downloaded somewhere in the world.” …All this was achieved PART TIME, without an agent, publicist, and at virtually no marketing expense!

The DIY Guide to Social Media Marketing and eBook Publishing By Coral Russell alchemyofscrawl Released: 2011-05-08 Kindle Edition (90 pages) List Price: $0.99* *(As of 12:36 Pacific 3 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: 5 STAR REVIEW - Mike Cyra, author of Emergency Laughter Well worth your time and your dollar. I purchased The DIY Guide To Social Media Marketing and eBook Publishing well after I had published my first eBook. As a first time, self-taught ebook publisher, I felt I had done things pretty good and my book was doing remarkably well. I decided to buy this guide book when I was getting ready to publish my second eBook for two reasons. One, I had forgotten everything I had done to properly publish the first book and I needed a current, easy to read, comprehensive format to guide me through the steps again. The second reason was I needed to step back, re-evaluate my first ebook and make sure I was utilizing every resource available to push my sales to the next level. I got everything I needed from Coral Russell’s DIY Guide book. It was the best dollar I ever spent. It refreshed my memory, guided me through the steps of self-publishing and showed me valuable things I hadn't done before. Above all it saved me time and frustration so I could get back to writing. There is a wealth of informational links in this book. I liked this because she had already investigated the best links to offer me and this saved me time...so I could get back to writing. I do recommend you view this book on a PC because of the amount of links in it. For me, it was easier and faster. I was very pleased with this guide book. I highly recommend it. What is in this eBook? Part ONE Writing Resources Critiquing/Editing/Proofreading A Good Book Cover A Catchy Book Description Part TWO Blogging Social Media Platforms - Twitter, Facebook, Google+, etc. Book groups - Goodreads, shelfari, LibraryThing Part THREE Formatting your eBook Uploading your eBook at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Smashwords Part FOUR Book Marketing/Promotion/Reviews Part FIVE Final Links and thoughts Sign up for the mailing list to receive free updates June and January at alchemyofscrawl@yahoo.com

Publish & Market Your Novel As An eBook (Confessions & Secrets of the Avid Book Reviews Blogger) By Lynnette Phillips Amazon Digital Services Released: 2011-05-03 Kindle Edition (10 pages) List Price: $0.99* *(As of 12:36 Pacific 3 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Third in the Confessions & Secrets of the Avid Book Reviews Blogger, this guide points out the benefits of publishing an ebook, offers marketing ideas, includes an examples of what might be included in your marketing plan and contains a list of helpful links & resources.

Kindle Cash - The Beginner's Guide to Creating, Marketing, And Publishing On The Amazon Kindle By Michael Masters Released: 2011-11-18 Kindle Edition List Price: $0.99* *(As of 12:36 Pacific 3 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: From The Author After two years of hard work, I retired at age 38. The above is absolutely true, and without the Amazon Kindle I couldn’t have realized this dream. The amazing part is, if I took another run at it I could make the same money, or more in less than half the time. Am I rich? No, but I am comfortable and moving into very comfortable, and I can teach you to have the same. Are you a writer? Have something you can teach? These are the basic ingredients needed to create an information product that can sell on the Kindle. However, it isn’t that simple. Just a slightly wrong choice of niche can make your precious book worthless. Did you know that the majority of Kindle books barely sell at all? Why is this? A number of reasons, all of which can be easily overcome. I walk you through all the confusion that I first faced trying to make my work successful on the Kindle, and it isn’t that hard. Is this a guaranteed money maker? Heck no, nothing is, but I can assure you a much greater, down to earth, chance of success than that guy that sold 5 million ebooks in three months. This is real, and my advice is designed for a beginner to get a foot hold on Amazon and make some real income. Want to make money on your non-fiction book, and do it right without spending a ton of money or dealing with a greedy publisher? It isn’t as hard as you think, but it certainly is easy to mess up. Let me help you be a success on the Kindle and join me in telling your boss those beautiful words... “I QUIT!” - Mike Masters

MKTG (with Marketing CourseMate with eBook Printed Access Card) By Charles W. Lamb & Carl McDaniel South-Western College Pub Paperback (388 pages) List Price: $64.95* Lowest New Price: $50.46* Lowest Used Price: $36.00* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 12:36 Pacific 3 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Created through a "student-tested, faculty-approved" review process with students and faculty, MKTG5 is an engaging and accessible solution to accommodate the diverse lifestyles of today's learners.

The E-Book Handbook - A Thoroughly Practical Guide to Formatting, Publishing, Marketing, and Selling Your E-Book By Douglas Klostermann Full Stop. Released: 2011-07-18 Kindle Edition (163 pages) List Price: $8.99* *(As of 12:36 Pacific 3 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: The E-Book Handbook is the definitive guide to creating, publishing, and marketing your own e-book and selling it online through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Apple - all easily and inexpensively. Using the knowledge, tools, and tips gained from the author's experience as a best-selling e-book author and publisher, The E-Book Handbook clearly and thoroughly explains every step of the e-book process from formatting through marketing. With this comprehensive guide you will learn to: Properly create, format, and convert your text for multiple retailers and formats including PDF, Kindle, Nook, iPad, and other tablets and e-readers, in order to reach the widest audience. Create a cover, insert images, and write compelling e-book descriptions and author pages to promote sales. Publish and sell your e-book on major retail websites:  Comprehensive step-by-step instructions for uploading and selling on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Apple's iBooks and iTunes, and Smashwords. Set up a website and blog:  Detailed step-by-step instructions for setting up your website and blog to sell and market your e-book, plus using advertising and affiliate programs to earn additional income from your website and blog. Automate sales and digital delivery of your e-book directly from your own website and blog using reliable, low-cost services. Market your e-book through the Internet and social media, plus optimizing search engine results so that your e-book and sites are found. Evaluate, monitor, and record sales, income, and expenses. Direct Internet links included throughout the text to every website, publisher, and retailer discussed, as well as comprehensive lists in the Appendixes. The E-Book Handbook is a 118 page (in the original PDF version), illustrated e-book guide that can help turn you into an e-book author and publisher.   Taking full advantage of the e-book platform, the text is periodically revised to incorporate the rapid changes and advancements of e-book publishing. Read this e-book on any device including your Kindle, PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, or BlackBerry with free Kindle Reading Apps available on Amazon.

MKTG 4 (with Marketing CourseMate with eBook Printed Access Card) By Charles W. Lamb & Carl McDaniel South-Western College Pub Paperback (368 pages) List Price: $59.95* Lowest New Price: $28.98* Lowest Used Price: $4.53* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 12:36 Pacific 3 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Created through a "student-tested, faculty-approved" review process with over 200 students and faculty, MKTG 2010, Student Edition, is an engaging and accessible solution to accommodate the diverse lifestyles of today's learners.