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E-book Title: Make Your Ebook Sell
Author: Steven Schneiderman
Book Description: Learn hot new ideas to help you
Make Your Ebook Sell including:
- Learn where to go to get your ebook professionally edited for reasonable prices.
- Learn about popular ebook publishing options.
- Learn how to package your ebook to give it a polished look and to position it for higher sales.
- Learn how to promote and sell your ebooks, and how to manage your expectations about ebook sales, and much, much more!
Why Do We Write?
That's a question I often asked my students. Why do we write? We write to share our hopes and dreams, our aspirations and fears, and our ideas and knowledge.
Not everyone is a natural born writer.
Some have the desire, but not the mechanical skills and abilities. Some lack the breadth and depth and richness of language. Others simply believe they have a story to tell, but in reality they lack a voice of their own and the quality of content.
Not everyone was born a writer.
This does not mean they cannot be taught to write well. Anyone can acquire the skills to do so. When I was lecturing, I encountered many students for whom English was their secondary language. Perhaps they were great communicators in their native tongue, but making the transition to English, with all of its innate complexities, was possibly the biggest challenge of their lives. My job was to help them to discover the words to verbalize their thoughts, and to show them the basic constructs of combining those words to form the written sentence. And from those sentences came incredible observations about the world around us -- and many wonderful stories.
Can You Make It As A Writer?
Presumably you have purchased this ebook to learn more about how to sell your own ebook. There are two kinds of books: fiction and non-fiction. You either write about that which has never happened or about things that happen to us everyday. You are either a poet or novelist or a journalist and subject matter expert.
In both mainstream print publishing and electronic online publishing, the books or ebooks that sell the most are not the world's greatest stories but ebooks that share knowledge and experience in fresh, compelling ways.
That may be a big disappointment for those of you who are creative writers. Sorry, but it's best to state these truths in the beginning.
This does not mean there isn't a place for creative writing or that creative writing does not have a market - far from it - consider the huge commercial successes of fiction writers like Stephen King or John Clancy or even the classic authors of the last 100 years. However, those authors who write informational ebooks frequently outsell the ebooks of creative writers.
I am telling you this to better manage your expectations. You may believe that you have written the world's greatest novel. Perhaps you have, but the harsh truth is it will most likely remain unread by the masses. Neither editor, nor publisher, not reader will embrace it. It will not rise to the top of the bestseller list. And you will not become famous or wealthy from it.
There are exceptions. I went to school with someone who eventually became a published, best-selling novelist. His first and second books have done well in both hard and soft cover, and he is now at work on his third and fourth novels. His name is Alan Jacobson and you'll read more about his thoughts on book marketing later on.
I know other authors who have done quite well, too. Their successes are but a fraction of the total number of authors out there seeking fame and fortune through publication.
The vast majority of author's works remain unread, and that's partially why I created EbookoMatic - so unknown authors could have a vehicle to showcase and sell their works electronically. More... | 
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