How To Make An eBook - Smashing Magazine. How One Blogger Has $20,000 a Month In Sales on Her EBook. A few weeks ago on a Sunday I was scrambling for topic ideas for that night’s #Blogchat when @SarahMaeWrites suggested we cover How to Create and Sell an EBook that night. That sounded interesting, and then she DMed me to add that she had just created and sold one, so I thought ‘Perfect!’ And asked her to co-host.
Now what I didn’t realize is that this pretty young lady had unleashed a social media marketing dynamo to promote and create interest in her ebook. She had a clear strategy, and was leveraging social media and her existing online network to promote the book. And her strategy was working incredibly well, so well that she has now sold over 8,000 copies of the ebook in less than two months. At $4.99 a pop. And the reason why is because she created a valuable product and did a fantasmic job of promoting it and building interest in it by not only leveraging her community, but involving them in the entire process.
Mack: What made you decide to write an ebook? Sarah: A few things… Building An Effective ‘Coming Soon’ Page For Your Product - Smashing Magazine. Ebooks. How to Convert a Website into an Ebook. Writing for blogs lends itself to many useful possibilities. You’re regularly updating them with fun and informative content, which makes for a fantastic resource for anyone who comes across it. However, if you’ve been thinking about creating an ebook from the same kind of niche, you may be lost as where to start. Well, the best place to begin, ironically, is your blog – you can easily turn it into an ebook without emptying your pockets. In fact, you can technically do it for free! There are many possibilities as to what you can create and what your goals could be. You might want to produce a mass market read for purchase or a free ebook that any of your readers can download.
Or a piece that is formatted for a portable e-book reader may best suit your audience, or even something light enough to be sent as an e-mail attachement. Whatever you want, these tools can help you to get it. Anthologize Anthologize is one of the most popular tools for online blog conversion on the web. Zinepal. A Simpler Page. The physical book is something designers get. It’s got a lot going for it, not the least of which is the fact that it’s physical. The boundaries are there, right before us. No guess work is necessary. And so there are a lot of great examples of well designed books. You needn’t look far to uncover a mountain of beautifully typeset and balanced pages.
But what about digital books? Tablets are in many ways just like physical books—the screen has well defined boundaries and the optimal number of words per line doesn’t suddenly change on the screen. This essay looks to address these very questions. The simple page #section1 Designing a book is largely an exercise in balance: Balance of letterforms and surrounding space in relation to the physicality of a book. The axis of symmetry of the spine is always there; one can certainly work over it, but not deny it. The spine gives book reading a kinetic motion not found in unbound sheets of paper. Fig 1. Fig 2. Inconsistent metaphors#section2 Fig 3.