Archive for March, 2009

How You Can Write and Marketing Your E-book

Saturday, March 28th, 2009
E-books have become a very common commodity on the Internet. E-books are electronic books that you can open, read, and print by using your computer. Writing an e-Book is among the best ways to brand your own business. Writing an e-Book is like any other form of writing be it a letter, a user guide, a report, etc. You must know who your target audience is and write to them. Writing an e-Book is actually easier than you might think and is a feasible way to make some extra money online.

Steps in Writing an E-book

your e-Book must provide answers to questions that a hungry audience within your niche is asking. You can visit www.profit-pulling-ebooks.com There is so much junk information floating around providing answers and solutions which people could care less about. Even though your e-Book needs to be about a niche in which you have some degree of knowledge, you can easily find what marketers are hungry for in practically any niche by simply looking at what people are talking about in forums. You’ll often read common questions from people who are willing to pay a pretty to someone who can provide answers.

Decide on a catchy, yet meaningful title for your e-Book. Be careful that your title doesn’t misrepresent your e-Book’s content. The last thing you want is to tarnish your reputation as an author by exaggerating the claims of your e-Book with your title or in your marketing pitches. It’s always better to under-promote and over-deliver.

Decide on how many pages you want your e-Book to have. The nice thing about e-Books is that they don’t have to be very long. 25 - 40 pages are quite common for e-Books. After you finish writing your e-Book, be sure to have a couple different individuals proof it for errors. Typographical errors are so common nowadays, but that doesn’t make them right or acceptable. Numerous typos in books or e-Books always leave a poor reflection on the author. Once you have written your e-Book and have it laid out in an easy-to-read manner, you will need to convert it into a .PDF or an .exe format.

Once you’ve finished producing and pricing your e-Book, you need to develop a marketing strategy. Or go to www.create-own-ebook.com there are literally hundreds of ways to market your e-Book, so implement a variety of methods. I would also suggest recruiting affiliates to promote your e-Book. Provide your affiliates with tools such as banners, articles, and even a list of keywords. Affiliate participation and success will depend on the quality of your e-Book and the promotional tools which you as the creator provide them.

Conclusion

many marketers are making a small fortune selling e-Books online. Writing an e-Book is like building a house, you have to start with a solid foundation and a specific plan. Writing an e-Book is probably easier than you think. The hardest part is actually sitting down and begins writing.



By: Anjalee

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Amazon Kindle How-to Series: Saving E-books and Audio Books on Your Kindle

Friday, March 27th, 2009
One of the great features of the Kindle Wireless Reading Device from Amazon is that it holds so many e-books and audio books. Even with it’s fairly large built-in storage however, your book collection might exceed the limits of what can fit on your Kindle. 

To help you handle your growing collection of e-books and audio books, the you can add extra memory to your Kindle in the form of an SD memory card. You can purchase these cards in many sizes from 1 GB up-to 16 GB. At the time you read this 32 GB cards may readily be available and affordable. Installing SD memory in your Kindle is straightforward. You can find complete instructions in our Kindle How-To Series available in the web-site listed below.

Once you have your memory card installed it’s time to move some of the e-books or audio books stored in your Kindle’s main memory to your new SD Card. There are a few things you should consider first before “making the move.”

1. Audio books are a good candidate for moving from your Kindle’s main memory to the SD card. Audio book files can be large – some are up-to 90 mb or more. Audio books will quickly consumer your Kindle’s main memory leaving less space for your e-books.

2. If you’ve purchased books that are on the Amazon digital site and have yet to be sent to your Kindle these also might be good candidates to load onto your SD memory card. This will keep all of your e-books and audio books in one place in-case you run into a situation where you do not have wireless access.

3. Pictures, music files, and digital files other than e-books also consume a lot of space in the Kindle’s main memory. Again, this makes them good choices to move to the new SD card you’ve installed in your Kindle.

Now – let’s take a look at your Kindle and get ready to save some files to your SD memory card. Here are the steps you can follow to do this -

A. Turn on your Kindle

B. Move the scroll wheel to “Menu” and press to select the Main Menu

C. Scroll to “Content Manager” on the Main Menu the press to select the Content Manager

D. Once the Content Manager screen opens take a look at your list of audio books and e-books – pay specific attention to the storage location of the book listed directly under the first word of the title –

a. “Kindle” – the book is stored in your Kindle’s main memory

b. “SD Card” – any books you’ve moved to your SD Card will have this location

c. “Amazon” – books you’ve purchased but that have not been downloaded to your Kindle will have this location

E. Choose a book now located on your Kindle by scrolling to the location of the book and pressing the scroll wheel to “select” the book. When you do this you will notice an “x” in the box immediately to the right of the book’s title.

F. Next scroll back down to “Menu” at the bottom of the Kindle screen and press the scroll wheel to select.

G. When the Menu opens, scroll to “Move to SD Card” and press the scroll wheel to select.

H. Once you do this you will notice the location icon will show the book is being transferred to your Kindle’s SD memory card. For example you will see an arrow pointing from the “Kindle” location to the SD Card location.

I. When the move is complete the location icon below the title will change from “Kindle” to “SD Card” – this is how you know the transfer process is complete.

That’s all there is to it! You’ve now learned how-to quickly save books from your Kindle’s main memory to the SD Card you’ve installed in your Kindle.

Complete instructions with photos can be found at the web site in the resource box below.



By: Michael Piston

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Do you own an Amazon Kindle or are you thinking about getting one? Go to www.guidetokindle.com for free information, FAQs, and how-to tips and help make your e-books and audio books even more enjoyable.