Posts Tagged ‘eBooks’
Download the Chicago Manual of Style eBook FREE!
You read that right. Get and download a totally free ebook copy of the Chicago Manual of Style, available all through September.
The catch? It’s the first edition of The Manual (it just released its 16th), first published more than a century ago in 1906. Still an interesting download, I think. Here you go.
4 Methods for Generating Ideas for Infoproducts in Profitable Markets and Niches
By Patrick V. Jackson
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If you are struggling to come up with ideas for information products in profitable markets or niches, then read this. You will discover 4 tools or websites I use to come up with idea after idea for profitable infoproducts.
B&N Nook, eBook Sales Speeding Up
FYI.
Barnes & Noble said that its digital book market share now tops the 17 percent it enjoys in the physical book market.
Product Creation – The 7 Myths That Stop it Before it Even Starts
By Liam Alexander
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Most of us know creating and selling your own products is the most profitable online business model. But so many of us don’t get started for one reason or another. Here’s how to break through and start creating hot selling products.
2 Quick Ways to Easily Increase Your eBook Publishing Revenues and Profits
Have a somewhat established ebook publishing operation, but just not bringing in enough of the green stuff? Try these. Nothing earthshakingly new about either, but I’m often surprised at how many don’t think of doing either or both when trying to boost the income their ebook publishing operations generate.
How to Launch the Snot Out of Your eBook – Your Competition Won’t Know What Hit ‘em
By Joshua Black
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Product launching for information products is part science, part luck, and part charisma. If you want to be successful in the ebook business, you are going to need to develop a system for launching your work. Otherwise, without a launch, your product will fall flat on its face. Keep reading for some great tips on launching your information product.
How to Develop Your Own Best-Selling Infoproduct
By John Worth
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Creating your own ebook is a great way to take your online business to the next level. Following are the basic steps needed to ensure your ebook is successful.
3 Ways to Create Compelling Information Products With Hardly Any Effort
By Ian Jackson
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You will find that information products are the hottest selling items on the Internet these days. There’s only one reason why people go online, and that’s to find interesting and helpful content — in words, video, or graphics, in their quest to satisfy their hunger for improvement. The improvement may be in terms of gaining knowledge, the ability to undertake a particular task, or a host of other reasons.
10 Ways to Repurpose Your Content
By Stephanie Treasure
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As an online marketer, you should strive to deliver value to readers on your blog, on social networks, via your email newsletter and more. It may look like a lot of writing to keep up with, but it does not have to be. Here are my top 10 ways to repurpose content that you only have to write once. These ideas assume that you started with an article first.
A New Way to Self-Publish Fiction
By Anna Kathryn Bir (Wordpreneur Classic)
ED. NOTE: Well, not exactly “new” anymore — this is a Vintage category piece — but well worth trying if you haven’t yet. The technical detail/scheme in this very short piece is quite crude by today’s standards, but you get the gist.
More and more good authors are turning to the Internet to self-publish. There are several reasons for that. All of them are probably well known to every writer by now, so we’ll not go into them here. What we’ll talk about here is a new way to self publish.
Work Less, Earn More as an Infoproduct Publisher
By Jeff Smith (Wordpreneur Classic)
(ED. NOTE: I don’t necessarily endorse or recommend the product he mentions — I know nothing about it — but this article is useful and informative, particularly for beginning infoproduct publishers. Heck, even seasoned ones could benefit from quickly reading through this.)
There’s no doubt, publishing information products to sell online is a thriving, exciting and very rewarding business.
For many, though, the product development and marketing curve simply seems too steep.
How do you find the time to publish products given the time crunch in most of our lives?
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Barnes & Noble Nook Prices Drop Majorly
FYI. Now it gets really interesting.
“Barnes & Noble cut prices for its nook e-reader from $259 to $199 and introduced a $149 Wi-Fi version in a move to put pressure on Amazon’s Kindle and grab more market share.”
Steps to Publishing Success
By Karen Martin (Wordpreneur Classic)
Even if your best friend owns a top publishing company, giving you an immediate “in,” this does not guarantee publishing success.
First, you have to write a quality book that has a clear target audience. And your book must answer a common problem or need that audience shares. Then you have to develop a marketing plan, and stick to it for at least two years.
Apple Reveals New Service for Authors to Sell Their Books Directly in the iBookstore
FYI.
“Apple has released information on self-publishing for the iBookstore… Apple or its partners generally create technologies that empower people to generate content in all kinds of ways and then monetize it. The iBookstore is what iTunes was to Music and Apps — a way to publish your own books and sell them without a publisher, agent, etc.”
Google Readies Its E-Book Plan, Bringing in a New Sales Approach
FYI.
“Google Inc. plans to begin selling digital books in late June or July… throwing the search giant into a battle that already involves Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc. and Barnes & Noble Inc.”
How to Make Over a Magazine for the iPad
FYI.
“There are a lot of uncertainties about magazines on the Apple iPad… [b]ut there’s an equally important logistical question that has to be addressed… How do you build it in the first place?”
Let’s Get One Thing Straight About Being a Published Author
By Jim Edwards and David Garfinkel (Wordpreneur Classic)
Just for fun, evaluate the following statement:
“Most people want to write a book and get it published, but that’s simply impossible 99% of the time.”
Is the above statement true?
How My Kindle Reduces Clutter, Saves Time & Keeps Me Slim
New post on my Kindle Journal subblog you’ll probably want to check out. Note that you can probably get most if not all the benefits described from just about any major ereader out there, not just the Kindle.
Writers: Making a Living Off of Kindle
FYI.
“So much media attention has been given to the iPad and to eBooks lately that it made GalleyCat wonder aloud: Is it possible for an author to make a living from selling eBooks?”
Heck yeah says author J.A. Konrath who “has successfully built a career and a living wage doing exactly that.” Interview.