Publishing E-Books For Dummies

Finding Your Motivation for Writing an E-Book

The question of why you want to write an e-book is important because the answer is the key to your motivation — and you need to stay motivated to move all the way from Page 1 to The End.

The most common reasons for writing an e-book are that you want to:

Make money, as either an extra income stream or a key part of your small business

Promote other products or services, such as small group courses or one-to-one consulting

Establish your expertise in your field

Place your writing in front of a large audience

Prove to yourself that you can write an extended work

Bolster your writing résumé before you approach agents or publishers to represent you

Be able to say that you’ve written a book

You may well have more than one motivation; for example, ...