Interested in Creating an eBook? 9 Outstanding Resources

Ebooks are a great way to market your site. If your ebook is full of some great content and you give it away for free, generally people will talk about it and link to it. Basically giving you a ton of great back links.

If the purpose of your ebook is to make some money, than you can make it a little longer and sell it online. At a lot of publisher sites, you can set up affiliate programs which will allow others to make money by promoting your book. Whats better than that?! I have compiled a list of resources from how to write your ebook, places to publish, and how to market it.

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eBook Apprentice
“Learn how to create, publish, and market your own e-books.” This site goes through the process of ebooks step-by-step. From generating ideas to writing to copyrighting and selling it. It’s a great resource for those interested in creating one.

How to Write and Sell eBooks Online
This guide is from Profit Puppy and also goes into detail about how to write the book, create a website to market it, and then sell your ebook.

How to Create and Publish Your Own eBook With a $0 Budget
An excellent article from Skelliewag that shows you exactly how to write your ebook and market it. This should probably be your first stop.

Creating an eBook to Make Money Blogging – An Interview With Leo Babauta
This is an interview by Darren Rowse of ProBlogger with Leo Babauta who runs Zen Habits. In the interview Darren asks Leo about the ebook he wrote and the reason he chose to sell it instead of giving it away for free. It’s a good read and can possibly give you some insight on whether or not you should sell yours or make it a freebie.

How to write your ebook in one week and get great leads
A very in depth article thats a rather long read but chalked full of great information.

12 Common Pitfalls to Avoid in Creating an E-book
So now that you know how to write your ebook, you might want to read about some things to avoid when writing it. This article gives great tips on what not to do when writing one.

Are you looking for some inspiration? How about downloading some free ebooks to help in the brainstorming of ideas? Here are two links which over 40 (20 each) sites to download ebooks from…
- 20 Best Websites to Download Free eBooks
- 20 Best Websites to Download Free eBooks, Part II

Directory of ePublishers: eBook Publishers, Electronic Publishers
Here is a list of different sites that will publish your ebook for you. The site gives a little description about each publisher like what genre they specialize in and even a link to their submission guidelines.

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