Joe Vitale - E-books

www.Lulu.com Streamlined way of turning your book into ebook - and publish and sell at their site

elance.com - post what you are looking for - find people who will bid

E-books are very inexpensive to publish - no packaging - no big publisher.
Cost effective to get book out there.

How to get people to come to the place to get your e-book. Use the media - the media is hungry for stories. Write articles that stem from e-book, based on e-book
e-zine trend ( article distribution) type into google

Autoresponeder at 7day ebook site will give a little from the book. Reinforcing encouraging them to buy it. And link to go to book
www.aweber.com
www.getresponse.com
Join venture with other people. Get on someone elses list.

Successalert.com
www.snipurl.com/vitale
interview people who have done well with selling something on the web

E-books offer instant delivery
Also can send it to Kinko's they will print and bind it for you.
Can read it on cell phone now.

Word document, change it into .pdf then publish it as .pdf file

Title of the e-book is so IMPORTANT not whimpy, general, treat the title like it is a headline.

How long should it be? Any length, even just 10-25 pages
People are buying the information.
If it is too long, then break it up into smaller
Ie. 60 interviews, just start with 9
If your book solves their problem they will be happy.

Proper way to e-mail someone you want to help.
Simple direct polite

Price book high - the higher the price the more they will sell,
He tests prices 59 - 79.99 sold better than lower price. People are buying solutions they are buying information..

How to get started - first time author
Come out with an e-book first- can do it quick . Make money fast, get feedback from book - what people want.
Publishers don't care that it was already an e-book. They like it.
Evolutionary, e-book first.

Hypnoticlibrary.com costs $400 Charge 3-4 times what you think

How to format the e-book
Adobe does format it - Does it need to look like web pages, or traditional book
How does your customer expect the e-book to look
Suggest you just publish it like a manuscript, simple page after page.
Can make it look any way you like.

Add updates, correct material, don't need to send to people who already have it. Can have the revised version at a bargain.

Do you need to compensate people who contribute. Use material give credit and add link. Offer them to be an affiliate.

e-books make money
printed books gain credibility.

Test title
www.abebooks.com giant site for old books
amazon, google for research book titles

Jason Mangrum is his web person mrfire.com look under recommended products.