Ebooks - sneak up on publishing: Issue 46 Fab Freelance Writing Ezine
August 28th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed
Writing a book? The road to book publication is long and hard.
You can shorten the journey with ebooks. Discover how in this week’s issue of Fab Freelance Writing Ezine.
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* Editorial: Ebooks - sneak up on publishing
* Article: You’re A Self-Publisher Ð Stealth Publishing With Ebooks
[Editorial] Ebooks - sneak up on print publishing
I’ve had many questions about writing and selling ebooks, in response to Issue 40 of the ezine.
A reader asked a great question - “Can I sell my book that I’m shopping around to publishers as an ebook before it’s published?”
You certainly can. If you’ve written a book proposal (three chapters and an outline, with marketing information) and have yet to find a publisher, then selling a version of the book as an ebook is a great idea. Not only do you make some money right away, but you may also attract publisher interest - a publisher may come to you.
You can also keep sending your proposal out, with the added information about your ebook Ð “selling steadily at 50 copies per week.” This SALES information will certainly intrigue a publisher and/ or agent enough to give your proposal more attention - you might find yourself in the happy position of being contacted by more than one publisher, and winning a bigger advance. Nothing succeeds like a little healthy competition. 
This week’s article “You’re A Self-Publisher - Stealth Publishing With Ebooks” is for you if you want to sell your ebook not just online, but also to traditional publishers. I hope you enjoy the article.
If you’re not au fait with ebooks, read my ebook guide “Write and Sell an eBook: Every Writer’s Quick-Action Guide To Writing Ebooks”.
If you’re a Web writer, get into copywriting and increase your income
If you’re making money as a Web writer, writing articles and content for Web sites, I recommend that you become a copywriter too.
Copywriters make more money than straight Web writers. When I’m asked what the difference is between a copywriter and Web writer, I usually reply: “A Web writer makes $80 an hour; a copywriter makes $250 and more an hour.”
Jokes aside, a copywriter writes sales material, whereas a Web writer writes informative material.
My Seven Days To Easy Money: Copywriting Success, new 2007 edition will help you to develop the copywriting side of your writing career.
Affectionately,
Angela
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** You Can Become A Web Publisher Too: Become A Web Mogul
For the past year, I’ve been receiving messages from writers who want to create their own Web sites. They’ve heard how much money there is in Web publishing, and want a piece of the action.
So, I’ve written a new ebook, “Super-Fast Money-Making Web Sites For Writers: Join The Web-Publishing Bonanza”.
The ebook (and its fabulous bonus ebook) outlines step by step, with images, how to create Web MONEY-MAKING sites fast. What could YOU do with an extra $300 a day?
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** Cash For Content - For New Writers
Enjoy Writing? Fast And Easy Cash In Your Pocket - Write From Home
The Web has opened up unlimited markets for writers, both new and established.
But if you’re completely new, the Web can seem like chaos. How do you find the Web sites which pay you just to write? These sites never advertise, because they don’t need to. So how do you find them?
I’ve got the solution for you. Imagine being paid to write: $10 to $50 and more per article!
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** Get Copywriting Clients In Seven Days **
My ebook/ course “Seven Days To Easy Money: Copywriting Success” has been taking the mystery out of copywriting for new copywriters for five years.
I love it when writers call me and say “I got a client!” or “I’m booked solid for three months” Ð I expect that, so it’s very satisfying.
The fact is Ð if you can write copy, you can write your own ticket. You WILL get clients, you WILL make as much money as you want to make. Copywriting is a necessity for every business. In just a week, your life can change.
“Seven Days To Easy Money: Copywriting Success” is your key a great lifestyle and security for you and your family.
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* Article: You’re A Self-Publisher - Stealth Publishing With Ebooks… write, and make money
© 2007 Angela Booth. All Rights Reserved.
With some 150,000 books published each year, bookselling is competitive. But let’s think about what happens before a book gets onto the bookstore shelves, because getting your book onto those bookstore shelves is a cut-throat process.
In this article, we’ll discuss writing and selling an ebook version of a book to make the process less harrowing than it can be.
You’re Writing A Book - Now What?
If you’re writing a book, the publication process starts when you get a contract from a publisher. This usually happens via your literary agent, so you need to get an agent. However, since most publishers now use agents to winnow their slush pile, getting an agent is hard: every writer wants a literary agent - but not just any agent.
Professional writers know that while getting an agent is hard, getting a GOOD agent is next to impossible without a track record. You need a good agent because an incompetent agent can crush your writing career before it starts. Like most authors, I’ve had several literary agents in my career and learned the difference between good and bad agents the hard way.
So how do you get a good agent who’ll sell your book proposal to a publishing house and get you on those bookstore shelves?
I recommend that in addition to writing a proposal (three chapters and an outline) for your book, you also create an ebook version of your book, and start selling your ebook online.
The benefits of creating an ebook and selling it while you’re looking for a publisher are:
* You build an audience for your published book. Remember those 150,000 books in English which are published each year? You make your book more saleable on every level if you have an audience, and your ebook gets you that audience. Many writers like Seth Godin have given away ebook copies of their book just to build an audience. Giving away an ebook doesnÕt damage sales of a print book, it enhances sales;
* You can attract the attention of agents and publishers. If you have the ability and skill to publish an ebook and sell it online, you signal to others in the publishing trade that you’re a professional and that you know what publishing is about Ð sales;
* You make some money. The book publishing process takes forever. Usually at least two years from idea to bookstore shelves. With your ebook making sales, not only do you have some money coming in, you’ll learn a lot from the people who buy your ebook, so you can make your book better and more saleable. An ebook lets you conduct free market research;
* Market research. A worst-case scenario would be that no one is interested in your ebook. If no one buys your ebook, there’s no chance you’ll get an agent or publisher for a print version. So you’ve just saved yourself a lot of time and energy.
Are There Any Dangers To Selling An Ebook First?
Some writers worry that when they’re selling an ebook, it may put publishers off in some way.
I can’t see any signs of that happening. Publishers are eager to do research on a concept BEFORE they invest any money. When you self-publish an ebook, you’re doing the research for them. You’re giving them numbers of sales, and publishers love numbers. When your acquiring editor walks into a meeting and pitches your book to the rest of the publishing house, having numbers of ebook sales is a huge plus.
There’s also “blooks” - books which started out life as a blog - the happy conversion of blogs into books shows that publishers are happy to publish material which started out in electronic format. Again, it’s a situation of numbers. If a blog gets thousands of readers, those readers are an indication of an audience for a book.
When Should You Start Selling Your Ebook?
I suggest creating a ebook version of your book at around the time you start shopping around your proposal. You’ve already written three chapters and an outline. Just finish the book, and format it as a PDF, and sell it online. If you’re really keen, you can also offer a self-published print version, via one of the many Print On Demand (POD) venues online.
I wish you much success with your book. Writing a book is an adventure. You can make it successful and fun when you sell an ebook version, and can use the ebook to propel yourself onto the bookstore shelves.
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** Imagine… $1,000 A Week For Just Ten Hours **
You can get paid to blog. The current rate for experienced bloggers is around $1,000 to $1500 a week for from two to five posts a day - VERY nice writing income.
Find out how to blog with the blogging best-seller “Blogging For Dollars: How to become a career blogger — in your PJs, if you want”. It’s my complete new ebook package, with free coaching/ consultations as well.
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End procrastination for good today, with “Top 70 Writing Tips To Help You To Write More” - you can make writing easy and fun.
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* The Unlimited Writing Market, The Web **
When you write for the Web, you’re never out of writing work. All Web sites need writers, and as the competition online grows, site owners hire writers to improve their sites.
The writing world in general hasn’t caught up with the Web. Now, YOU can — and you can cash in. Freelance writers just don’t realize how much money there is to be made by writing for the Web: many writers use the Web as a research tool, they don’t see the Web as a mass of millions of markets. They don’t realize that Web sites are STARVED for good writers.
Want to get paid REAL money to write? How does $150 an hour sound to you? Discover how to write for the Web today: www.abmagic.com/Web_Write/Web_write.html
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** ANGELA’S BLOGS **
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Fab Web Writer: www.fabwebwriter.com/
Top Ebook Writer: www.topebookwriter.com/
Seven Days Copywriting: sevendayscopywriting.com/
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