The 10 Easy Steps to Create a Free Ebook

Posted by mk | September 20, 2009

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You will need a professional ebook creation software if you want your ebook to look professional.

Step 1: Get an Idea

Of course, the most important thing here is to know what are you going to write about in your ebook. It is important to carefully clear which concept you are going to use in your book. An ebook is not a blog post, but also it is not a blog. So, it is important to know that at the beginning.

Carefully pick up one category of your blog and choose what are you going to write about. Also, do not try to copy contents from your blog – it is the least and less effective method for sure.

Step 2: Share It!

It is important to tell your loyal readers that you are going to write an ebook for them in the following weeks or month of time. It is amazing how this deadline can motivate you for work.

Share your thoughts and ebook title on your blog. Providing your readers the outline of your ebook. Make sure they know what are you going to write for them. It is good to share this post on all yours social media sites like Twitter, Facebook or a newsletter to get the maximum effect.

Try to draw your readers in when they read your outline on your site. This may help you to get a few quality and effective subscriptions for your blog and some valuable loyal readers as well.

Step 3: Research your Content

Now, it is a time to research your ebook content. It is a very important step where you should look for the related information, compose and put that info into your book content. Of course, do not try to copy-paste any of the text from other sources – try to say that in your own words.

This is one of the most time-consuming steps in a ebook creation process. Usually, if you spend more time to research that particular topic, an ebook would be more quality and effective at the end. If it helps, try to think about this as some kind of connection between your book and other sources on the internet.

While researching, you might find some new and valuable concept ideas and opportunities.

Step 4: Write an Introduction

Before you are going to write your ebook, it is important to write down and introduction part of your ebook. There you should tell your readers why you are writing this book, what did you expect, how much time you spend in the development and all other information that can be related to your ebook.

This is a step where you need to draw your readers (which have downloaded your ebook) to read it through. Try to convince them to read it and keep them announced what they can learn from it and what did they get. A quality and informative introduction is very important in the ebook development for sure.

Step 5: Write it Down

Of course, this step is the hardest and the most time-consuming step here. You need to merge down and compose all collected information into one piece. Make sure to take your time while writing, do not copy-paste information from other websites or a blogs.

Also, it is important to know that you probably would not complete a whole ebook in one day. If you want to write down a quality and effective ebook, you need to give yourself a much more time to finish it correctly. Writing down a quality e-book should not take more than two weeks for sure. I talk about 30-50 pages ebook.

Your outline is important here. Stick strictly to it to avoid any problems in the writing process. The outline can help you a lot to develop and finish your work correctly and right on time.

Step 6: Add Some Graphics

Once you have write all your book, it is a time to find an appropriate graphics elements to place it within content of your ebook. There are many ways to do that, including the following:

Graphs – provide graphs to show your readers some stats about problem you are solving in your ebook.
Diagrams – explain more complex problems in your ebook with diagrams.
Illustrations – needs to be related to your ebook content and term which they refer to.
Quotes, highlights – put out a quoted and a highlighted text easily visible in your ebook.

Do not try to place too much images in your ebook just to improve your ebook page quantity. It is good to place only related illustrations, graphs and images within your ebook.

After all, you want your readers to read your book – not to look into it!

Step 7: Re-Check Everything

Now, when the hard-part is over, we are ready to take the next step. Here, you will need to check everything you have written so far and look out for mistakes and a problems.

It is a good time to check all your images, captions, quotes and everything else included in the ebook. Take yourself a time to check this carefully. More time you spend checking, the more quality ebook would be.

Step 8: E-Book Format

The text part is over finally. Now it is a time to format your ebook correctly. Make sure to format your headers, sub-headers, footers… correctly. This option is easily accessed through Styles and Formatting menu of MS Word. Other word processors might have this feature included too.

It is important to choose a right and modern font styles that would be easy-to-read for your readers. Take care to use an appropriate font size and style of your content too – not only the headings.

Here is a time to place all elements into your content. This includes bold, italic, underline and other formatting styles. Also, if you want to link some text, it is a right time to do this.

Step 9: Table of Contents

Now, your ebook should look more professional. It’s is a time to create a table of contents of your ebook. It is a necessary step where you tell your readers where all information are placed.

Make sure to use a simple and modern-styled table of contents. Including all headers and sub-headers included into it. I do not prefer to use a tables here, but you can do this if you want.

It is important to know that Word 2007 supports feature that would enable you to create a quality table of contents of your ebook completely automatically:

Step 10: Make your Cover and Publish it!

Well, now it is a time for the last and the most enjoyable step – Creating a cover and publishing your ebook on the internet. You might need to have some kind of professional cover design software to make your work look professional. Creating a nice and pro cover can increase your book downloads.

When you have write all down, you need to convert that document in PDF format. It is the most popular format over the internet with great compatibility and support for all popular operating systems and platforms.

After that, all you need is to keep your readers informed about that through your blog or a website!

If you have any suggestions and question than feel free to ask me i will response you.

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Ruchi September 21, 2009 5:00 am

Never thought of creating Ebook, But after reading your tips I can think of it.
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