| When people come to me to learn how to write an | | | | hardback book. |
| eBook, they often say something about finally | | | | Ebooks are not new. In fact, there have been |
| deciding to write, even if it isn't a real book. An | | | | eBooks available online since the middle of the 1990's. |
| eBook is a real book, just not in the traditional way | | | | Mark Joyner and Joe Vitale are credited with putting |
| we may think about it. | | | | some of the first ones online back then. These were |
| We all grew up with hardback books, and eventually | | | | books that had not been previously published in the |
| many of those books were available as paperbacks, | | | | traditional sense. They became so popular and so |
| making it much less expensive to produce and | | | | many copies were sold that many more people were |
| distribute them. Paperbacks were also more | | | | then willing to do the same exact thing. |
| convenient for us to take with us. I can remember | | | | If your book has already been published by a |
| ordering books in elementary school for about thirty | | | | traditional publisher, check to see that you still have |
| cents each. They were all paperbacks, and I took | | | | the electronic rights to the material. If so, you can |
| good care of them so they would last. When I was | | | | set up a simple website and sell your book as an |
| older I would always purchase a couple of | | | | eBook. You will make much more profit this way, and |
| paperbacks to take with me on a vacation. I never | | | | many more people will have access to the content in |
| thought of them as having any less value than a | | | | your book. |