E-Books

[DJSFran32]

I don't know if I am at the right place or not and I am sure somewhere in the forum this topic has been descussed but if we can do this just one more time. I have a web site that I would like to offer a free e-book. I'm not completely sure I understand how to do this. Is there any direction you can head me to for research on how to do this.

Thanks,

[angienewton]

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[angienewton]

[tknoppe]

Writing an ebook is as simple as typing it out in Word or OpenOffice. There are some book templates out there, probably even 'e-book' templates that would set your margins 'just so' for you and all that, but for a downloadable ebook, I've never found it to be a problem to go with the standard settings and just type! You can adjust those later, if needed. If you want them to be able to hole-punch the left side, for example, to put in a binder if they print it, then I'd make the left margin wider, but most don't worry about that.

The key thing for an ebook is to convert it to a PDF file, OpenOffice does that for you, or if you have Adobe, use that - or one of the free printer drivers that will convert it for you (like pdf995).

How you set it up depends on if you're just going to use a PayPal buy-it button or a full blown shopping cart system.

Easy is buy-it button where after payment, they land on a confirmation/thank you page with a link to the product for them to download.

[David Jackson]

[terrapin719]

[angienewton]

[AnitaHampl]

But remember, the profit does not come from merely selling an e-book. You want to have a method to capture the addresses, get their permission to send them future emails, etc.

I know Lynn teaches this, as do many of the gurus.

~Anita

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