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Choose the Right Format for Your Ebooks
Choosing the right file format for your ebook is an essential step on the road to electronic self-publishing. This article looks at the factors affecting your choice and offers tips to help you make the most of your ebook, whatever format you choose. The ...

Ebook Review: The Silent Sales Machine Hiding on eBay!!!
EBOOK DETAILS File Size: 1,709kb Zipped, 2,383kb Unzipped. Number of Pages: 136 Format: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) Subject: A guide to using eBay traffic to create "Silent Sales Machines." Other Information: Can be bought with Jim Cockrum's other ebook "How to ...

Why Should You Write an eBook?
Why Write an eBook? It's not true that everything that has been said has already been written. Since that unfortunate axiom came into use, the whole universe has changed. Technology has changed, ideas have changed, and the mindsets of entire nations ...




"How to Get People to Download a Free eBook"
 
Have you ever downloaded a free book and found junk on your hands? Have you ever downloaded a free book that had incredible content?
When I had been on the net for a couple of years, suddenly, I was finding free books. Of course, I downloaded many. I even found an archive of free books. As I went through them I trashed what I considered the ebooks that had little information and a lot of advertisements.
I did find some gems and learned a lot from free books. It took me a few months to get to them all, but what I noticed was when the free book came with a website and a cover, I was much more inclined to download and read that book right away. It had perceived value!
So, I started doing something that I had never done before. I started putting a few free books up with covers, and YES I got more downloads per hit than before.
So, I then put up a free ebook that not only had a free cover but a free page to describe the book, and linked that to a 5 day free course. Results? Wow........ way more downloads.
How does giving away free books help you?
It helps you when the free book is your own. It helps you when the free book is branded for your back end sales.
It helps you get more subscribers to your ezine It helps bring people back to your site.
So, choose your free books wisely. If they have a way to brand them, then it is worth it to pay the branding fee. Then set the book up that you have paid money for branding and put it up with a cover and a give away page.
Make that give away page a hot selling page, just as you would if the book was paid for.
Put the ingredients you need for a hot selling Give Away Page:
1. Get their Attention Headline 2. A sub headline
3. An eBook Cover
4. A statement of fact or a quote. 5. A list of benefits 6. A get your reader involved question 7. Get them to sign up for your newsletter or a free ecourse (This can be considered a bonus) 8. A P.S. (postscript)
Remember, make it easy for them to sign up for their "New Valuable, yet Free eBook" immediately.
Make sure the book that you like has a cover or if if doesn't and you truly believe the book is worth giving away, then talk to the author and see if he/she has a cover, or if he/she will consider getting a cover made for the book.
A picture is truly worth a thousand words.
Teresa King
(c) 2002
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Teresa King is the author of several books on the net. Her latest "17 Top Secrets to Set Your Site on Fire" can be found at http://www.tipsfortop.com or http://17secrets.com
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Acclaimed Indie Publisher Bancroft Press Releases Three Brand New YA eBooks
PR Web (press release)
For the first time, praised Bancroft Press young adult novels Recovering Dad, Paul & Juliana, and Jake are available as eBooks. The release of Recovering Dad completes the Bianca Balducci trilogy from Edgar Award finalist Libby Sternberg.


High-tech bookmobile allows readers chance to look at eBooks, gadgets
AZ Central.com
The Glendale Public Libraries will host the Digital Bookmobile for two days in February, showcasing the free eBook download service available from Glendale Public Library. The nationally touring bookmobile will appear at the Main Library, 5959 W. Brown ...
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Photo Release -- Skyreader(TM) Media Pacts With San Diego Zoo on New ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Under a new agreement between Skyreader Media Inc. and the San Diego Zoo, author-in-residence Leslie McGuirk will once again team up with author-restaurateur Alex von Bidder to create a series of three interactive eBooks titled Wiggens at the San Diego ...

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Forbes

2012: The Year Of New Ebook Tools
Forbes
The release by Apple of iBooks Author last month begins a year that will see the release of several new tools focused on helping people to create, publish and track their ebooks. Now that Apple have clarified that their EULA does not attempt to claim ...


Are We Suffering from eReader Fatigue? Yes, No, and Maybe So
Huffington Post
In the very next breath, however, Kelley—a book publicist with Kelley & Hall Book Publicity—admits that she also reads on a Kindle and an iPad, and that e-books have distinct advantages, too. “The immediacy of being able to look at a book, ...

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