Ebooks: step by step guide

 

eBook: Step By Step Guide

1.What is an ebook?
2.How do I read an ebook?
3.What are the advantages of ebooks?
4.What are the disadvantages of ebooks?5.How much do ebooks cost?

6.Where can I buy ebooks and try free samples?

7.Can I get my novel published in ebook format?

8.What is the future for ebooks?

We all know that the internet was a revaluation in human history and internet changed every aspect of our life in the past twenty to thirty year and in future internet will change a lot.

Before the internet, we used the letter as a medium of communication for long distances. But we shift from letter to email and we started using an application like skype replacing long-distance phone calls. And before the internet, most people used to go to the shopping mall for their necessary but now more and more people shift their shopping habits from big malls to indoor online shopping using the site amazon.

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And on the other hand, business-minded people show opportunities to create their business around the internet using various strategies. Some people succeeded and some people did not.

But the point is if you're smart enough you'll find your way on the internet to build a successful business. It's not that hard. One of the common business people tend to build on the internet is that to sell products online whether it's physical products or digital products. People using a site like amazon.com to sell their products because this kind of popular shopping site has a big customer network.

And that’s just a small number of all the benefits that we’ve enjoyed for the internet. Many people are like to sell their products online to make money or some people do something else. But my favorite method to make money on the internet is to provide some value to the people by creating good quality ebooks for them.

You can create and publish your own on your website or amazon direct publishing to make decent money. There very big industry on the internet of ebooks publishing and selling online.

You see around you there is a big publishing house with soo many staff editors, writers, administration, big printing presses all are working together to publish books, distribute them, and hope the consumer will buy their books from the book store. And by selling books they finally make some profit.

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You can do the same but the difference is that you don't need all those stuff to publish your book, you can do that by seating on your chair at your home on your computer. That's how easy it is with the internet. If you don't want to do that little work then I don't know what you will do.

Before the existence of self-publishing ebooks on the internet, there was a monopoly of big publishing houses. They used to refuse writers, don't publish their books. And that's why more and more writers are now moving to the internet and started publishing their books by themselves with the help of a self-publishing platform like Amazon Kindle self-publishing.

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If you asked me ok then, "I am also going to or want to publish my book on the internet but tell me what the main difference between self-publishing and traditional book publishing".

Well, the main difference between self-publishing and traditional publishing is that when you go to publish your books traditionally you have to deal with the printed books full of hassle.

And going to the printing houses one after another. But with self-publishing you are hassle-free of actually creating a book, all you need to do is write something about any topic on your computer and then do edit if needed then publish that written text on a platform like Amazon Kindle direct publishing in the form of ebooks.

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And your consumer can read those books on their eBook reader, on their computer, their tablet, or even on their mobile phone. So in short it's easy for the readers to consume.

Millions of people are now buying and read ebooks each year. And here in the united states, alone ebooks represent about 20 percent of the book publishing market.

And there are a lot of opportunities for a person or entrepreneur to build a successful business selling ebooks online. If you as a person can get even a piece of the ebooks market you'll be making enough money.

So read on you are going to learn how to make money selling ebooks online. Will cover writing to marketing to selling your books online. It's going to be a long article but if you are a beginner then you should read the whole article because you are going to learn a lot from this article about ebooks.

1.What is an ebook?

An ebook is an organized text about a particular topic and you can download that written text from the internet for your purpose and can read those text on a computer, laptop, ebook reader, or even on a mobile phone.

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Even those books which are in printed form as a traditional book including fiction, nonfiction, or any type of book can also read as an eBook on your device.

In short ebooks simple electronic text which can read on electronic devices. The main benefit of ebooks in my point of view is that you get some extra things like audio, video, and a hyperlink or related topics.

2.How do I read an eBook?

There are so many ways to read an ebook or I should say you can read your ebook on any smart device. In the past, there are very limited ways to read or open an ebook but that situation changed a lot.

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Some popular ways I am going to mention below one by one......

●Amazon Kindle

●Adobe Digital Edition

●On Your Android Phone

●On Your iPhone/ipad

●On Your PC Using Any ebook reader

Here is the details guide on eBooks readers.

3.What are the advantages of ebooks?

People always like to debate about books. Some people say printed books are better than digital books and some people are like no ebooks are a lot better with so many extra benefits. But ground truth is that more and more are reading digital books this day. Because there are so many tech-savvy people in the world and that's number is growing day by day.

But there are and there will be people who prefer to read a printed book. Because there is a psychological impact of reading printed in a good way. So there will market for both more or less.

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So let's talk about the advantages that digital books have over printed books. I'll write those advantages one by one but if you want to read a detailed article about eBook advantages you can click here.

●You can carry soo many ebooks in one device

●You can carry those ebooks everywhere unless there is a security issues for carrying electronics devices

●Easily to updates

●You can share those eBook with anyone

●You can experience augmented reality

●Comfortable with eyes

●There are lot of feature to find

●Interactive elements

●Ebooks are environment friendly

●Ebooks are good in long run

●"Speed" the ebook can be downloaded immediately

●Print on demand

● "Interactivity" Readers can search for the they don't understand

●"Personalisation" you can adjust the ebook for you

●"Add-ons" Many ebooks have searchable text, dictionaries or other features

● "Open market"  publishing ebook is heseche free

4.What are the disadvantages of ebooks?

We all know that more and more people are reading electronics books this day. If you don't know this fact before, now you know. So books are no longer just bundles of paper that you can keep in your book store. You can keep your ebooks as PDFs form or you can keep them on Kindle. And there some others format also where you can keep your ebooks.

Now there are a lot of advantages that ebooks carry and we discussed those advantages above but some disadvantages ebooks also have. Before I tell you those disadvantages let me clear one thing and that is I am still interested to read paper books.

So disadvantages are......

●In order to read and understand an ebook you have to set your eyes on the screen for long time.

●You will not feel the book reading satisfaction.

●There are chances that you can lose your ebooks files.

●It can be difficult for to read ebooks on the sunlight.

●You need a device where you can store your ebooks.

●You may face batteries down problem during reading.

5.How much do ebooks cost?

Ebooks are way cheaper than paperback books. Sometimes you can download an ebook for free on your computer or mobile phone. You can buy an ebook as low as $1 but usually an ebook cost from $2.99 to $3.99, sometimes more than that amount. If you want to sell your ebook then the higher price you set for your ebook more money you could make by selling fewer ebooks.

6.Where can I buy ebooks and try free samples?

In today's internet world there are lots of sources where you can buy a digital product. With a lot of options, it's very exciting to find the right to buy an original one. There literally soo many options according to your type and budget. So I've selected this list for you of the best places to find your favorite ebooks and buy one.

●AMAZON KINDLE

●BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK STORE

●IBOOKS

●KOBO

●GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS

●SCRIBD

●PLAYSTER

●BOOKBUB

●SMASHWORDS

●HARLEQUIN

●BLACKWELL's

●BARNES AND NOBLE

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7.Can I get my novel published in ebook format?

"Yes," you can get your novel published in eBook format.

In the year 2018, I made 90% of my book sales from the ebook. So there is huge market potential. You can sell your eBook in a comparative market at a low price because there is no shipping and printing cost of ebooks. The reader can buy your eBook from your website by downloading them. So there are no barriers for readers to buy your ebooks. If you don't publish your novel in eBook format then surely you're missing out a lot.

And you can sell your ebooks to anyone in the world without the headache of printing and shipping costs over the Internet. There is an opportunity for you to build a business just by writing from your desk and earn a lot of revenue in return.

8.What is the future for ebooks?

If you want a quick answer to the question of what's the future of ebooks, because you want to start writing ebooks then I would say is that "yes" there is good for ebook industries. Because there are lot advantages ebooks have that readers can enjoy reading.

After the revaluation of ebooks, the traditional book publishing houses are fighting and trying to protect their position in the world of books. But it'll hard for book publishing houses to compete with the ebook price.

But in the end, we only can predict the future based on the present situation. And time will tell but now for at least 4 to 5 years in the coming future, the eBook industry is expected to grow higher.