Category: Education/Training Publisher: CPM Systems
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 64
Copyright: October 2011
ISBN-13: 9781891440724
E-Publishing for the Clueless® simplifies the entire process of writing, converting, and posting your authorship efforts with such locations as Amazon.com’s Kindle®, Apple’s I-Pad®, Barnes and Noble’s KOBO®, and a variety of others.
The book is written in simple, easy to understand language and includes software links (or a CD) with all of the FREE conversion software necessary to enter the world of E-Publishing
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
WHAT IS E-PUBLISHING?1
THE ADVANTAGES TO E-PUBLISHING
FREE, FEE OR PROMOTIONAL MOTIVE?
HOW DO YOU CREATE AN E-BOOK?
Write Your Book Using a Word Processor
Insert Needed Graphics
Design a Cover or Have One Designed
Convert the Cover and Body Text to PDF
PDF Convertor in Microsoft Word
AUDIO E-BOOKS—THE PODCASTING PROCESS
Software for Recording and Editing Audio
Hardware for Recording and Editing Audio
Distribution (or Feeds) for Podcasting
VIDEO PODCASTING—MAKE A VIDEO PODCAST
Digital Video Camera
Video Editing Software
Video Compression Software
Video Podcasting Using YouTube
DISTRIBUTING AND SELLING YOUR E-BOOK
Start With the End in Mind
Distributing Your E-Publications Through BLOGs
Free Support and Promotional Downloads
·SELLING YOUR E-PUBLISHED MATERIALS
Web Site Sales
Pay-Per-Download
LISTING WITH MAJOR DISTRIBUTION CHAINS
ADDITIONAL PLACES TO OFFER YOUR E-BOOK
THE LEGAL STUFF
Trademarks
Copyrights
Digital Rights Management (DRM)
How to Get Permission to Quote Someone
BONUS HOW TO PUBLISH THE WORLD’S LEAST EXPENSIVE PRINTED BOOK
REFERENCES AND RESOURCES
Excerpt
THE ADVANTAGES TO E-PUBLISHING
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peed: Printing a book takes three to six weeks before you’ve got books in your hand and another six to sixteen weeks to get into a bookstore. With e-Publishing, you can have your book in the hands of a reader who purchased your book in a week or less.
Control: Conventional printing requires that you conform to standard sizes, page counts, formatting, etc. E-Publishing allows you to do pretty much whatever you want and offer it to the public that way.
Costs: This is the big reason that so many people are looking at e-Publishing because in addition to NOT having any printing costs, there is no inventory to stock, no shipping hassles, and no shipping charges.
Flexibility: If you’ve ever hesitated about writing a book because you weren’t sure it would sell or that you couldn’t afford to test the market, e-Publishing provides the lowest cost, lowest risk way to enter the world of publishing with almost zero risk.
Profits: Here’s the most important part and it’s based on the old adage: it’s not what you make, it’s what you keep.
Because E-publishing is virtually free, except for your time, whatever revenues you generate are likely to be 100 percent profit. What other product in the world can make that claim?
