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.
  
  
• Info-Product Marketing Secrets Exposed
  This is an eBook about eBook and Info publishing for profit. It contains lots of useful information and tips from successful marketers. See also our Review of Info-Product Marketing Secrets Exposed.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Ghostwriting Goldmine
  How to have professional writers begging you to write your product and you keep 100% of the profits
  
  
• Directory Profits
  "How I made hundreds of thousands of dollars with information products - just by compiling other people's information."
  
  
• How To Write Your Own eBook In 7 Days!
  Write and publish your own OUTRAGEOUSLY Profitable eBook in as little 7 days - even if you can't write or type!
  
  
• eBook Secrets Exposed
  "How to Make MASSIVE Amounts of Money In Record Time With Your Own eBook - Whether You Wrote It Or Not!"

• Reviews of eBook Publishing Tools + Tutorials
  (Related category on this site)

The Tipping Point By Malcolm Gladwell Little, Brown Released: 2007-03-21 Kindle Edition (304 pages) List Price: $9.99 Lowest New Price: $7.99 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 23:08 Pacific 11 May 2008 More Info) Click Here Amazon.com: "The best way to understand the dramatic transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth or any number of the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life," writes Malcolm Gladwell, "is to think of them as epidemics. Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do." Although anyone familiar with the theory of memetics will recognize this concept, Gladwell's The Tipping Point has quite a few interesting twists on the subject. For example, Paul Revere was able to galvanize the forces of resistance so effectively in part because he was what Gladwell calls a "Connector": he knew just about everybody, particularly the revolutionary leaders in each of the towns that he rode through. But Revere "wasn't just the man with the biggest Rolodex in colonial Boston," he was also a "Maven" who gathered extensive information about the British. He knew what was going on and he knew exactly whom to tell. The phenomenon continues to this day--think of how often you've received information in an e-mail message that had been forwarded at least half a dozen times before reaching you. Gladwell develops these and other concepts (such as the "stickiness" of ideas or the effect of population size on information dispersal) through simple, clear explanations and entertainingly illustrative anecdotes, such as comparing the pedagogical methods of Sesame Street and Blue's Clues, or explaining why it would be even easier to play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon with the actor Rod Steiger. Although some readers may find the transitional passages between chapters hold their hands a little too tightly, and Gladwell's closing invocation of the possibilities of social engineering sketchy, even chilling, The Tipping Point is one of the most effective books on science for a general audience in ages. It seems inevitable that "tipping point," like "future shock" or "chaos theory," will soon become one of those ideas that everybody knows--or at least knows by name. --Ron Hogan

The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use News Releases, Blogs, Podcasting, Viral Marketing and Online Media to Reach Buyers Directly By David Meerman Scott Wiley Kindle Edition (304 pages) List Price: $24.95 Lowest New Price: $9.99 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 23:08 Pacific 11 May 2008 More Info) Click Here

Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness By Jeffrey Gitomer Jeffrey Gitomer Released: 2004-09-25 Kindle Edition (220 pages) List Price: $19.95 Lowest New Price: $9.99 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 23:08 Pacific 11 May 2008 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Strategies and answers from a lifetime of selling, from the bestselling author of The Sales Bible. Jeffrey Gitomer is the author of The New York Times best seller The Sales Bible and The Little Red Book of Selling. All of his books have been number one best sellers on Amazon.com, including Customer Satisfaction is Worthless, Customer Loyalty is Priceless, The Patterson Principles of Selling, and his latest best-selling books The Little Red Book of Sales Answers, The Little Black Book of Connections, and The Little Gold Book of YES! Attitude. Jeffrey's books have sold millions of copies worldwide. Jeffrey gives public and corporate seminars, runs annual sales meetings, and conducts live and Internet training programs on selling and customer loyalty. He has presented an average of 120 seminars a year for the past ten years.

From Entrepreneur to Infopreneur: Make Money with books, E-Books and Information Products By Stephanie Chandler Wiley Paperback (240 pages) List Price: $19.95 Lowest New Price: $10.65 Lowest Used Price: $10.65 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 23:08 Pacific 11 May 2008 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Infopreneurs sell valuable information online in the form of books, e-books, special reports, audio and video products, seminars, and other media. This definitive guide will show how to master the tools and tactics of the most successful infopreneurs, so you can succeed at producing, marketing, selling, and automating delivery of information products online. This guide comes complete with interviews of successful infopreneurs.

The Well-Fed Self-Publisher: How to Turn One Book into a Full-Time Living By Peter Bowerman Fanove Publishing Paperback (294 pages) List Price: $19.95 Lowest New Price: $12.53 Lowest Used Price: $12.53 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 23:08 Pacific 11 May 2008 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Landing a publisher has never been harder. So many want to get published, but few understand the enormous challenges, the fierce competition, and the merciless reality of bookstore shelf. But, what if you are one of the lucky ones to land a publisher? Well, here’s what you can count on: anemic royalty rates, 18 to 24 months to publication, and giving up the rights to your book. And guess what? You’ll still be expected to do most of the marketing yourself! There’s a better way. Thanks to the Internet, self-publishing has become easier, more viable, and more potentially lucrative than ever before. In 2000, veteran commercial freelancer Peter Bowerman self-published The Well-Fed Writer (an award winning Book-of-the-Month Club selection) and in 2005, he did the same with its companion, TWFW: Back For Seconds (triple-award-finalist). The books became “standards” in the lucrative field of commercial freelancing: writing for businesses, large and small, and for hourly rates of $60-125+ or more. As this is written, together, the two books – about 50,000 copies in print – had earned him a full-time living for over five years. The definition of a full-time living (straight from the horse’s mouth): Okay, we’re not talking “picking-out-chateaux-in-the-South-of-France” kind of money, but the book paid all my bills (including a couple of print runs each year), allowed me to stay the course in funding my retirement account, stay completely out of debt, and take a few nice vacations each year. Would that work for you? The Well-Fed Self-Publisher is a 300-page, detailed, step-by-step blueprint that explains exactly how the author did what he did. According to Bowerman, “This book is for those who really want to turn their passionate creative efforts into real ‘pay-the-mortgage’ money.” Acknowledging that “self-publishing” carries an enormous amount of negative baggage (and deservedly so), the author says the focus of the book is to dramatically raise the bar on quality, for starters: I’ll show you how to create a book indistinguishable in quality from one produced by a reputable publishing company; how to do a far better job of marketing and promoting that book than a publisher ever could; and how to make far more money than you ever would with that publisher. And by doing it all yourself, you control the timetable (potentially shaving 12 to 18 months off production). Plus, you retain all the rights, allowing you to leverage the brand you’ve created into a host of profitable “spinoff” businesses – each with its own income stream. Starting from perhaps not-so-obvious fundamentals (“Write a book people will want to read”), the book progresses through a discussion of the significant limitations of the conventional publishing model (despite the best intentions of most publishers). Then, in a nod to the outright panic and terror most “creatives” experience at the mere mention of the term “sales and marketing,” the book provides an entire early chapter to help demystify these often daunting concepts. As Bowerman is quick to point out, “Success as a self-publisher is far more a function of a process than an aptitude. It’s far less about some way you have to be than it is about a bunch of things you have to do.” At that point, the book kicks into gear, offering up discussing in-depth discussions of book production, distribution, marketing, promotion, publicity (through one’s own web site, the Internet, radio, article writing, bookstores and far beyond), Amazon, spinoff businesses, and an entire chapter on the controversial so-called “revolution” known as “POD publishing” (print-on-demand). The book finishes with five appendices offering up resources and a time line for the self-publisher, a primer on foreign rights, and more.

How to Write and Publish Your Own eBook in as Little as 7 Days By Jim Edwards Morgan James Publishing Paperback (279 pages) List Price: $19.95 Lowest New Price: $11.88 Lowest Used Price: $36.98 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 23:08 Pacific 11 May 2008 More Info) Click Here Product Description: How to write and publish your own OUTRAGEOUSLY Profitable eBook in as little as 7 days even if you can't write, can't type and failed high school English class! Discover the secrets to having your own, outrageously profitable ebook written and published as quickly as ... only 7 days from today!

The Long Tail By Chris Anderson Hyperion Released: 2006-07-11 Kindle Edition (256 pages) List Price: $17.95 Lowest New Price: $9.99 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 23:08 Pacific 11 May 2008 More Info) Click Here Product Description: "In the most important book since THE TIPPING POINT, Chris Anderson shows how the future of business and culture isn't in hits, the high-volume head of a traditional demand curve, but in what used to be regarded as misses -- the endlessly long tail of that same curve. Our world is being transformed by the Internet and the near limitless choice that it provides to consumers; tomorrow's markets belong to those who can take advantage of this. THE LONG TAIL is really about the economics of abundance, an entirely new model for business that is just starting to show its power as unlimited selection reveals new truths about what consumers want and how they want to get it. The record business has been transformed by iTunes and Rhapsody; a similar transformation is coming to just about every industry imaginable. What happens when everything in the world becomes available to everyone? When the combined value of all the millions of items that may only sell a few copies equals or exceeds the value of the few items that sell millions each? When a bunch of kids with no profit motive can record a song or make a video and get the same electronic distribution for it as the most powerful corporation? Chris Anderson, editor in chief of Wired Magazine, first explored "The Long Tail" in an article that has become one of the most influential business essays of our time. Using the worlds of movies, books, and music, he showed how the Internet has made possible a new world in which the combined value of modest sellers and quirky titles equaled the sales of the top hits. He coined the term -The Long Tail- to describe this phenomenon, a phrase that's since appeared in boardrooms and media around the world. -In short, though we still obsess over hits,- Anderson writes, -they are not quite the economic force they once were. Where are those fickle consumers going instead? No single place. They are scattered to the winds as markets fragment into a thousand niches.- Now, in this highly anticipated book, Anderson shows how we got to this point, and the huge opportunities that exist: for new producers, new aggregators, and new tastemakers. He discusses the reputation economy; the end of inventory; the Wal-Mart effect; the power of peer production; and the rise of massively parallel culture. He demonstrates how long tail economics apply to industries ranging from the toy business to advertising to kitchen appliances. He gives the nine rules for operating in a long tail economy. And he provides a glimpse of a future that's already here."

20 Effective Steps to Publishing a Kindle Edition of Your Book or Document: How to Connect Your Amazon Kindle Book with Readers (Publish and Market Your Book on Amazon Kindle) By Stephen Windwalker Harvard Perspectives Press (indieKindle.blogspot.com) Kindle Edition List Price: $2.99 Lowest New Price: $2.39 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 23:08 Pacific 11 May 2008 More Info) Click Here Book Description: A 3500-word article by Stephen Windwalker, Harvard Perspectives Press, December 2007. If you are interested in this content but don't yet have a Kindle, check out indieKindle.blogspot.com. Publishing a Kindle edition of your book or manuscript is easy, but don't waste the opportunity by being hasty. Take the time to understand and use the tips and tactics in this article to optimize your document and your Kindle product detail page for maximum search and marketing power with Kindle, Amazon, and the Web. It's nice to be "published," but it's even better -- and much more profitable -- when readers can find your work, connect with it, and buy it.

Purple Cow By Seth Godin Portfolio Released: 2007-03-03 Kindle Edition (160 pages) List Price: $19.95 Lowest New Price: $9.99 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 23:08 Pacific 11 May 2008 More Info) Click Here Product Description: You're either a Purple Cow or you're not. You're either remarkable or invisible. Make your choice. What do Starbucks and JetBlue and KrispyKreme and Apple and DutchBoy and Kensington and Zespri and Hard Candy have that you don't? How do they continue to confound critics and achieve spectacular growth, leaving behind former tried-and-true brands to gasp their last? Face it, the checklist of tired 'P's marketers have used for decades to get their product noticed--Pricing, Promotion, Publicity, to name a few--aren't working anymore. There's an exceptionally important 'P' that has to be added to the list. It's Purple Cow. Cows, after you've seen one, or two, or ten, are boring. A Purple Cow, though...now that would be something. Purple Cow describes something phenomenal, something counterintuitive and exciting and flat out unbelievable. Every day, consumers come face to face with a lot of boring stuff--a lot of brown cows--but you can bet they won't forget a Purple Cow. And it's not a marketing function that you can slap on to your product or service. Purple Cow is inherent. It's built right in, or it's not there. Period. In Purple Cow, Seth Godin urges you to put a Purple Cow into everything you build, and everything you do, to create something truly noticeable. It's a manifesto for marketers who want to help create products that are worth marketing in the first place.

Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story By Jerry Weissman Prentice Hall Released: 2007-03-23 Kindle Edition (336 pages) List Price: $13.59 Lowest New Price: $9.99 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 23:08 Pacific 11 May 2008 More Info) Click Here Product Description: In Presenting to Win: Persuading Your Audience Every Time, the world's #1 presentation consultant shows how to connect with even the toughest, most high-level audiences--and move them to action. Jerry Weissman shows presenters of all kinds how to dump those PowerPoint templates once and for all--and learn to tell compelling stories that focus on what's in it for their listeners. Drawing on dozens of practical examples and real case studies, Weissman shows presenters how to identify their real goals and messages before they even open PowerPoint; how to stay focused on what their listeners really care about; and how to capture their audiences in the first crucial 90 seconds. From bullets and graphics to the effective, sparing use of special effects, Weissman covers all the practical mechanics of effective presentation--and walks readers through every step of building a Power Presentation, from brainstorming through delivery. Unlike the techniques in other presentation books, this book's easy, step-by-step approach has been proven with billions of dollars on the line, in hundreds of IPO road shows before the world's most jaded investors.