| In recent years, the ebook publishing market, which | | | | should strive to write, publish, promote and market |
| has literally exploded in the secular world, is also | | | | high quality ebooks, both in content and design. |
| rapidly becoming an emerging Christian book market. | | | | There are many uses of ebooks to the Christian |
| While recent trend of ebook sales may have seen | | | | world. First, ebooks can be used as a powerful tool |
| intermittent decline at specific quarters within the | | | | for teaching and preaching the good news of the |
| past years, ebook sales have also during other | | | | Gospel of Jesus Christ. If you have a ministry, a |
| quarters reported dramatic increases (1) and experts | | | | church, a Bible Study group or a faith-based |
| are still optimistic that ebooks are the future | | | | organization, ebooks are an excellent, very cost |
| direction; that is in the long run. Some analysts have | | | | effective way to produce reading material or cheap |
| suggested that any decline of ebook sales seen this | | | | books for your members to read. Ebooks are |
| year may be attributed to the flooding of the ebook | | | | excellent for Christian reading book clubs, youth |
| secular market with many low quality materials; this is | | | | ministry, and other church groups, especially the |
| pretty obvious and one does not need to be an | | | | evangelism group. Ebooks are in fact a very powerful |
| expert to observe this. Others have suggested that | | | | tool for evangelism. |
| much of the information that many ebooks offer are | | | | Now, is the time for a Christian writer, or aspiring |
| easily obtainable at no cost on the Internet (2); that | | | | Christian writer to start gaining indepth knowledge |
| is with a little focused search on the Internet. | | | | about how to write, publish, and promote and market |
| Logically, if you simply follow the surging trend of the | | | | ebooks. You could in fact sell your ebooks either for |
| technology of electronic devices and the expanding | | | | profit, or use your proceeds to support various |
| daily use of the Internet, coupled with environmental | | | | church ministries or Christian faith-based organizations. |
| issues with regards to exploitation of trees for paper | | | | There is no one stop resource center for learning |
| printing and other paper products, one can only | | | | about ebooks. There are in fact numerous good |
| deduce that the need for ebooks would only increase | | | | Internet-based resource centers that can furnish you |
| in the future. The way I see it, ebooks are critical | | | | at no cost very detailed information on how to write, |
| not just to the secular world, but also to the Christian | | | | publish, promote and sell ebooks. Also, you should |
| world. We need an inexpensive electronic book | | | | strongly consider setting up your own website, if you |
| publishing outlet, such as the ebook outlet, to | | | | don't have one already. A website provides you an |
| augment our current teaching and preaching of the | | | | Internet base for people to get to know you, your |
| good news of the Gospel of our Lord and Savior | | | | organization or company, the work you do and the |
| Jesus Christ. | | | | products you offer for sale. For example, you may |
| So, if you are already a Christian writer, or you are | | | | choose to sell your Christian ebooks, or simply make |
| an aspiring Christian writer, whether you have | | | | them available for free download at your website. |
| published a book in the past or not, now is a ripe | | | | You can also create a Christian content-rich website |
| time for you to start thinking about writing, publishing | | | | where you can provide Bible-based information in the |
| and possibly selling your own authored ebooks. Just in | | | | form of articles, ebooks or both, as well as other |
| case you are not familiar with this term, an ebook | | | | writing works such as Christian ePoetry. |
| simply means an electronic book. An ebook can be | | | | The process of writing, publishing, promoting and |
| downloaded and read on an electronic device such as | | | | marketing ebooks have become a huge area that |
| a desktop or laptop computer, or an ebook reader | | | | requires one, especially Christian writers and |
| device, a device that is specially made for reading | | | | publishers, to really make time to learn and |
| ebooks. | | | | understand it. Again, there are numerous content-rich |
| With the rapid Internet and technology device | | | | websites that provide very good information. So, |
| advancement, ebooks are already been published and | | | | take advantage of the free, highly informative and |
| made available in different formats such as: Adobe | | | | educational material that they offer. But be careful |
| PDF or ebook Reader format, HTML format, which is | | | | not to be quick to purchase ebook-related products, |
| a Hyper Text Markup Language, that combines text | | | | for example, ebook creating software, before you |
| and extra information about the text | | | | understand what the product really offers. Ask other |
| (en.Wikipedia.org), the same format that website | | | | individuals who have used the product for their |
| pages are created and published, and in Microsoft's | | | | honest product review. Blogs on the Internet are |
| LIT format, exebook (an executable file format) and | | | | great avenues for sourcing people's opinions about |
| other formats. You would need to spend sometime | | | | ebook software and their recommendations based |
| on the Internet reading information on different | | | | on their use of the software. Don't believe |
| possible ebook formats that I cannot begin to list | | | | everything you read on the Internet. There are many |
| here. Just know that the same possible ebook | | | | scams on the Internet and you must be careful, as |
| formats being used by the secular world is also | | | | you take the first step into starting to gather and |
| applicable for creating and publishing Christian ebooks. | | | | read information on how to write your first Christian |
| Likewise, Christian ebook promotion and marketing | | | | ebook. |
| would also mirror the same approaches as the secular | | | | References: |
| ebook market, only that our ebook content, writing | | | | 1. "Publishers Report Increases in eBook Revenue and |
| approach and target market may differ. However, be | | | | Units Sold in Q1 '05" by the International Digital |
| aware that there are a lot of low quality ebooks | | | | Publishing Forum ( |
| circulating on the Internet, especially product and | | | | 2. |
| website promotional ebooks. You as a Christian writer | | | | |