5 Steps in Publishing and Selling Your First E-book

By Wayne Perkins
Posted Wednesday, January 12, 2005

What is an e-book?

An e-book is simply a digital file that contains content that entertains, enlightens or inspires your reader. It can be 5 pages long or 2500 pages long. It can be a complete book that uses all of the old fashioned elements of book publishing or an E-book can be a truly creative piece of work. An e-book could be a speech, a series of speeches, a poem, a series of poems, recipes or series of recipes and "how to instructions. E-books can also be short stories like Stephen King's "Riding the Bullet." E-books can contain sound, video and animation or they can resemble a typical paperback book. Look up on Amazon.com and check out the top 100 books and see if you can tie in your e-book to a topic area of one of the bestsellers. Write it just like you would write a letter. You do not need any special formatting.

2. Save your e-book as in Microsoft word as a doc. File...text file...and html file

3. Set up an account with Infopost.com. They will host your file and give you a free website page to include your description, reviews, pricing and any other information. Infopost.com is located at: (http://www.infopost.com) Infopost will also do the credit card processing and allow you to post sample chapters or excerpts of your e-books.

4. Follow the directions on listing your e-book, including the description, sample chapter and then up-load your e-book to Infopost.com

5. Copy and paste the URL of your e-book to your e-mail signature and register the URL with all of the major search engines and directories.
(http://www.searchenginewatch.com)
(http://www.jimtools.com)
(http://www.urlsubmitter.com)

Now you are a full-fledged e-book author. You will be selling your e-books within a few minutes of completing the process.
I wish you success!

Wayne Perkins

Resources:

E-book sellers to sign up with if you have no website.

(http://www.booklocker.com)
(http://www.booksurge.com)
(http://www.infopost.com)
(http://www.wayneperkins.net/ebooks/excerpte.html)

Free teleseminars on how to write your first e-book are at: (http://www.wayneperkins.net/ebooks/write.html)

About the Author
Wayne Perkins is the best selling author of "A Cheap and Easy Guide to Self-publishing E-books" and has published 3 print books and 11 e-books. Wayne also delivers free teleseminars in how to write and sell your first e-book.
(http://www.wayneperkins.net/ebooks/write.html)
mailto:wayne@wayneperkins.net