Maria Pease - Writing Ebooks for Fun & Profit

Chapter 1

e-books: The NewFrontier

So, you want to be a writer and youthought e-books may be the way to go. Well, youre right. e-books are thefuture of publishing. Now, Im not saying that print books will go away. Idont think they will. I know I wouldnt like that. Im just saying that peoplewant information quickly these days and that will not change. e-books are agreat way to get the information you want f-a-s-t.

Whywrite an e-book you ask? Well, there are several reasons, so why dont you getyourself a glass of iced tea, have a seat and get comfortable. Ready? Lets getstarted.

First,lets talk about what an e-book is, just to be sure we are on the same page.(No pun intendedreally!) An e-book is an electronic book, called an e-book forshort. It is written and saved on your computer and distributed over theinternet.

Onceyou have written and edited your e-book, and you are ready to publish it, youneed to convert it to an Adobe Acrobat PDF file so it cant be altered in anyway, and then decide how and where you will distribute it from. I will talkabout publishing and distribution options in more detail later, for now, letsmove on to why you want to publish e-books.

Thereare several reasons why more and more authors are turningto e-books. Many people decide to write an e-book toimpress friends and family, to gain additional customers with their expertise,to create a platform for another product or service or to show they are aleader in their field. Some want to share a passion that they may feel stronglyabout and want to deliver it to the world, but probably one of the mostimportant reasons is because of the money you can make when you write a goodone.

Traditionalpublishing and even using a print on demand publisher can be costly. There areall kinds of fees involved in producing a print version of your book and youmay find that if your e-book does well, you might