How to create and publish an ebook?

One of the way you can start profiting immediately is by creating your own ebooks. It may seem like a huge task, when it’s really easy. Today in this article, I am going to talk about designing, important things like index, copyrights and other stuff. So lets get started.

1.    Ebook Design – Now this has nothing to do with your graphics skills. When I am talking about ebook design, I am talking about easy to read layout. You have to worry about few things in an ebook.

First thing you have to worry about the Fonts you are using. Remember, an ebook is often read on a computer screen. So if you are using any sort of fancy fonts, chances are, your ebook is hard to read. That’s why it’s often suggested to use Sans serif fonts like Verdana, Tahoma for ebook.

Second thing you have to worry about is how big the font are going to be. You paragraph should be spaced at one line and fonts size should not be more than 12 font size.

Using a standard 12 size is pretty much a decent size for normal text. Of course you can increase the font size for title or topic heading.

2.    Second thing in an ebook, you should worry about the copyright issues and notice. You should post a copyright issue on all of your text, regardless you are selling it or giving it away for free.

For free, you should always put a notice about it on the copyright about what can your readers do with the free ebook.

Third thing I am going to talk about is Adding few money pages. I am calling them a money page because, that’s what they are. These are pages that are going to promote your website, your list or any of your other products.

I often like to use these pages at the start (before index) and at the end as an extra resources. Promote your sales pitch for subscriber list in these pages.

Creating a design for first page – Unless you are an ebook graphic designer, I suggest you to take it easy and just stick to the basics. Your first page should be about the “Title of the ebook”, A sample of what’s inside, Who’s the author and How to contact the author (website info).

This is the bare minimum of the stuff you should put it in your ebook. That’ it, add your content and voila you are done.

About the Author

Varun Pratap is working in online business as a pro blogger from 2004. His blog on Imbasics (Internet marketing Basics) is all about making money online ethically without resorting to tricks, techniques and gimmicks.

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