If you currently market your writing online through sites such as Associated Content, Constant Content, or Triond, you know there's an enormous demand online for information of all types. One of the most powerful strategies for multiplying earnings from your writing is to recycle non-exclusive articles you've written for the various online submission sites into a larger scale work such as an e-book that can be sold online. It can be very exciting to be an e-book author and you've already done much of the work by writing your own original articles. Why not use your articles to write and sell an e-book to enhance your online writing income?
While many people think the task of writing an e-book is a monumental undertaking, the truth is if you publish articles on a narrowly defined group of topics, you may already have the material for several e-books on your computer just waiting to be organized and compiled. An e-book can be as simple as a group of articles grouped together with some added writing between articles to bridge the gaps and make the book flow better. To write and sell an e-book is not such an overwhelming endeavor after all.
For example, suppose your favorite topic to write articles about are fly fishing techniques. You've written over twenty articles on that topic and consider yourself to be somewhat of an expert on fly fishing. Your articles get lots of page views so you know there's significant interest in the topic. Since you wrote these articles as non-exclusives, you're free to use the material you already have to write and sell an e-book.
Why not gather together those already completed articles and formulate them into groups based on subtopic? These could form the main topic headings for your first e-book. Once you have the articles grouped, you can outline your table of contents. Now that you have your table of contents and subject headings, it's a simple matter of using your articles to fill in the body of each subject heading and manipulating the wording so it flows more smoothly. An e-book will come together more quickly than you ever dreamed possible and you'll have spent little time on the actual writing.
Once you have your ebook organized, it's time to come up with a compelling title. The title needs to solve a problem, be compelling, and arouse emotion in your reader. Which title would you rather read?:
The Online Guide to Fly Fishing
Conquering the Waters: The Complete Novice's Guide to Fly Fishing Like a Pro
The second title packs more emotion punch and will probably compel your reader to want to purchase your e-book more than the first one. Remember, a title can make or break sales of an e-book.
Once you've completed your e-book it's time to put it into e-book format. Most successful e-books are published in pdf format which makes it capable of being read on both PC's and Macs which widens your potential customer base. There are a variety of free software programs that will convert your document to PDF format. One such free one is Open Office. You'll also want to design an eye catching e-book cover to grab the potential reader's attention. Once you've completed your book, there are a variety of e-book directories where you can promote and sell your book.
And you thought it would be hard to write and sell an e-book? Nothing could be further from the truth. Why not gather together those non-exclusive articles and get started today?
