A friend asked me about the basics of ebook publishing. I offered to pull together some resources, and I thought you might be interested in the answer, too.\u00a0An ebook is one way to spread your ideas online. You can make them free or put them up for sale.<\/p>\n
The term ebook can mean any electronically published info. Length can be short, with just a few pages, or as long as a regular printed book, or even longer. The format can be any electronic format. Some ebooks are published just as a standard website or a blog. Most are in PDF. Some are set up in special formats for readers, like the Kindle or iPad.<\/p>\n
To get yourself going, start with these basics.<\/p>\n
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For US residents, your publication is automatically copyrighted as soon as you publish it. If you want to, include a copyright notice. That’s the “(c) 2010 by Your Name.” Any extra wording is up to you.<\/p>\n
If it’s a free ebook, why not make it easy to share? Use a Creative Commons license, and people can tell how you intend it to be shared. Stop by Creative Commons Choose a License<\/a> page to get started.<\/p>\n Pretty Graphics<\/b> Step by Step Basics<\/b> What questions or resources do you have about ebooks?<\/p>\n New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the Guided Tour<\/a>. Like what you see? Get our updates<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A friend asked me about the basics of ebook publishing. I offered to pull together some resources, and I thought you might be interested in the answer, too.\u00a0An ebook is one way to spread your ideas online. You can make them free or put them up for sale. The term ebook can mean any electronically […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,17],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7403,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions\/7403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
My friend specifically asked about those pretty “looks just a like a real book” graphics you see on some pages advertising ebooks. I personally don’t use ’em. I just use a flat graphic taken from my cover design. If you are good with any graphics software, you can make your own. If not, you can purchase specially-designed software to do just that, or work with a graphic designer.\u00a0For a simple task like this, you might look at\u00a0crowdSPRING<\/a> or fiverr<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Here’s the easy step by step instructions at the most basic level.<\/p>\n\n
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