Jazzing Up Your Ebook
Jazzing Up Your Ebook
So you have the words in place. The information is conveyed in content that is unique, well-written and easy to understand. The work is finished, you start to think. Your eBook is ready to be published.
Not quite yet.
You can still implement some methods that will make your eBook more visually captivating and the information a lot easier to digest. These methods are fun to employ since they will require a certain degree of creative input on your part. It’s the tail end of the production process. You’re almost ready to market your eBook! You just have to jazz it up a little.
Using Graphs, Charts And Tables
There are times when you will have to include graphs, charts and tables on your content pages. With MS Word as your word processor, this can easily be accomplished. For tables, you can use the built-in table maker that comes with the program. For charts and graphs, you can prepare them separately using an image editing software program, save the same as .jpg , .gif or .png files, and attach them to corresponding areas on your eBook’s pages.
How, exactly can you do this?
Do use the feature “insert text box” on MS Word. Once you have set the size of the text box, use the feature “insert picture.” This will automatically adjust the size of the image file to fit the size of the text box.
Your content pages can easily be edited using this procedure.
All About Ecovers
We have always been taught to never judge a book by its cover, but this rule is seldom followed. Often, covers sell copies. Just go to a bookstore – any bookstore. Which books on the shelves will catch your attention? Naturally, those with classy, fancy covers have better chances of catching your interest.
The same goes for eBooks.
Ecovers sell. So you must exert some effort to come up with the best eCovers possible to represent what is inside your eBook. Ecovers are best prepared by professional graphic artists. If you’re going to hire a freelancer, expect to pay $50 to as much as $300 per set of eCover images.
If you have excellent graphic manipulation skills however, all you need is an eCover program that will stamp the images you will make on 3-dimensional representations of virtual books. There are a lot of these programs available, and they come at reasonable prices. They are excellent investments for those who wish to build a library of eBooks in the future.
Additional Sources Of Income
Since an eBook is recommendatory by nature, you can enroll in related affiliate programs. Thereafter, you can subtly promote the affiliate products in the pages of your eBook. You can even hyperlink your affiliate links on such recommendations or on relevant keywords.
This will give you a number of income streams. Ethically, there is nothing wrong with this strategy as long as you do it with reserved moderation. Surely, you wouldn’t want a hundred affiliate links populating each and every page, right? Personally, I set a limit of not more than 15 affiliate links per 30 pages of content for eBooks that will be sold. If the eBook will be distributed for free as, say, the main seed of a viral marketing campaign, then such a limit is disregarded.
Affiliate links aren’t the only income streams you can integrate, however. Ebooks are also great for back selling as they are with cross selling. If you have other products, do link to their sales pages in your eBook. The same rules apply, the same limits as well.
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