If you're passionate about writing-- and using new technology to market yourself and your work-- Maeda shows you start. She explains what an e-book is, and the differences between traditional and digital publishing, as well as how to optimize the format of any text for e-reading. Readers of all ages and levels have embraced the e-book, and Maeda shows you how to achieve success on your own terms.

The self-publisher's bible! In this clear and entertaining ten-step guide, a prolific American author tells how he formats his books using free software for upload to the world's leading sellers of digital content. "Most beginners write their books in Word or Open Office," he says. "Then they upload the same file and hope it will convert to an e-book. Sometimes it works; more often it doesn't, because word processors litter the file with hidden formatting....

Get on Google's front page with easy SEO tips for online marketing. Simple SEO (search engine optimization) can get any site to the top without spending money. Discover ways to use keywords, meta descriptions and tags, categories/labels, titles, link-building and more. Step by step instructions to help your site get on Google front page. Anyone can do this. It costs nothing but a little bit of time. You'll discover: the best keywords, both short-tail...

Want to make your own ebooks? Get a basic introduction to the exciting and evolving world of digital books. In this beginner-level course, Anne-Marie Concepcion explains how to use, create, and sell ebooks, including reflowable, fixed-layout, Kindle, PDF, and multitouch ebooks. Anne-Marie's tips can help you choose the right format and the best tools to build your ebook. She demonstrates professional page layout software such as Adobe InDesign, free...

Do You Dream of Retiring and Making a Living As a Writer? Learn How! Do you dream of one day retiring and spending the rest of your days sitting on your couch and watching TV? Maybe! But if you do, then you probably are not reading this description! Most people, even in retirement, want to have a job. We may not call it a job, or even think about it as a job-but we want to do something. For many people, that job is writing that great story they've...

Say goodbye to Word, and take your writing to the Cloud with Google Docs. Like hundreds of millions of people, you probably lived your whole, life using one-word processing tool, Microsoft Word. It's great software! Powerful software! Resourceful software! And...expensive software! Google Docs is, the Google equivalent of Microsoft Word, but it's free. Free as, in ad-supported, right? One paragraph in and you have to watch a 30 second video of some...

Feel like it's impossible to get more reviews for your book? Discover a comprehensive guide to every single review gathering method in publishing. No idea where to start to get reviews for your book? Worried about hiring a professional service or contacting blogs to get those five-star marks? Award-winning author and professional reviewer Barb Drozdowich knows reviews inside and out. As the owner of the world's largest reviewer database, let her...

You're ready to write your book... and there's a personal assistant just waiting for you to engage it and kickstart a successful publishing career. A book can change everything. Not just for the person who reads it, but for you as the author. Want to double (or even triple) your income? Write a book. Whether you're an expert in your field looking to share your knowledge and experience, or you want to use your book to attract clients...

With traffic to personal blogs and online journalism sites on the rise, there are more blogging opportunities than ever before. With the right approach, a blog can be an extra source of cash, or it can be a business unto itself yielding thousands of dollars a week, all earned on your own schedule, from the comfort of your home office, and writing about the topic of your choice. If that sounds too good to be true, this invaluable book will prove to...