Northwest Writer Learns the Hard Way that Publishing Ebooks Is Easy

Publishing an ebook might sound like a lot of work, especially when you’re mired in the wasteland of online information, but it’s a relatively simple process if you know a few tricks.
 
Oct. 1, 2011 - PRLog -- Northwest author R. H. Sheldon has been a writer most of his life. He’s written everything from restaurant reviews to advice columns, legal summaries to news stories, training material to technical documentation. His publications include features articles, short stories and the novel Dancing the River Lightly. But now he’s pushing into new territories—the world of Kindle and Nook and iBooks and digital publications.

There’s good reason for his move. In 2010, retailers such as Amazon, the Apple Store and Barnes & Noble sold close to 100 million ebooks. This year, they anticipate selling 500 million. And by 2014, retailers expect half their book sales to be electronic publications. “That’s a hell of a lot of books,” Sheldon says, “and anyone who writes, edits, publishes or sells books had better be paying attention.”

Which is exactly what Sheldon is doing—paying attention. So much so he’s already published numerous ebooks that include postings from his blog, an essay on fiction and an electronic version of his novel. But learning how to publish those books hasn’t been easy. “I reviewed help files and online articles and blogs and even other ebooks,” he says, “most of which were so poorly written they didn’t deserve a preview, let alone an actual purchase.”

Given how much time he’d spent learning how to publish electronic books, Sheldon decided to write his own ebook about the process and, as a result, has recently published Ebook Now: The Essential and Simple Guide to Creating and Publishing Professional Ebooks for Kindle and ePub. According to Sheldon, he wrote the book because of all the conflicting and vague and inaccurate information he came across. “But that’s the nature of the Internet and ebooks,” he says. “You’ve got to dig through a lot of crap before you find what you’re looking for.”

Sheldon hopes that Ebook Now will help would-be ebook publishers avoid having to dig through the same piles of useless and inaccurate material he did. To that end, his book provides specific and straightforward instructions on how to submit material to Amazon for the Kindle audience and to Smashwords for those readers who purchase their books through such retailers as the Apple Store and Barnes & Noble. You can find more information about Ebook Now at http://rhsheldon.com/publications/ebook-now/.
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