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E-Book Publisher

E-Books are electronic books designed to be read with the help of your computer (generally on the computer screen, but many E-Books also an option for that allows people to print them). E-Books are often delivered to the customer via the Internet as downloadable files, but they may be shipped on physical media such as disks or CD-ROMs. It would be wrong to regard E-Books as simply the direct electronic equivalent of printed book - they often include many addition features such as search, clickable hyperlinks leading to web sites, animations, videos, sound, and in some cases even forms and interactive features.

Publishing E-Books is an increasingly popular activity among small businesses, especially home businesses. This is because writing and publishing an E-Book is well within most computer users' technical abilities, but, if you are successful at the business, provides the opportunity to earn quite considerable amounts of income. One of the main reasons for this is that if you write a traditional book, there is a whole host of people wanting a slice of the sales revenue (probably including, at least, a publishing company, a wholesaler, and the book stores), as well costs of printing and shipping the book on dead trees (paper), which leaves only a small percentage of the sale price to the author. On the other hand with E-Books, authors can generally sell direct to the public, costs are minimal, and therefore the author can keep virtually all the sale price as profit!

Creating an E-Book is a relatively straightforward task, basically you write your material and use some E-Book compiler software to convert it into E-Book format - the better E-Book compilers of course include instructions explaining how to do this process. Once you've prepared your E-Book the recommended next stage is to set up a simple sales web site to sell it to the public - you can set up the site or pay someone to do it for you - and if you don't want to do that right away, you could even try selling you E-Book on auction sites like eBay.