Publishing E-Books For Dummies

How This Book is Organized

Publishing E-Books For Dummies is split into six parts, and each one is divided into chapters. The parts guide you through the entire e-book publishing process, from your first inkling of an idea to marketing your engaging finished product. Here’s the lightning-fast tour.

Part I: Getting to Know E-Books

Part I walks you through the basic tasks involved in publishing e-books, giving you a quick overview followed by case studies and success stories to inspire you — and to give you some workable ideas of your own. You also get a few crucial tips for writing your e-book — an important prerequisite to publishing it.

Part II: Creating Your E-Book

Part II, which shows you how to turn your manuscript into an e-book file, covers every step you need to take, from creating a clean manuscript in Microsoft Word to producing EPUB, MOBI, and PDF files. (Don’t worry if those file formats look like gobbledygook now. I describe them in Part II.) This part also explains cover design because, like it or not, people tend to judge books by their covers.

Part III: Creating Your Website

Part III spells out everything you need to know in order to set up a basic website. This online home or storefront is a crucial part of your author platform (your ability to reach readers). Many writers struggle to set up their websites and update them, so Part III lays out a simple way to create a site that you can easily maintain and update yourself. This part also looks at a crucial sales ...