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Ebooks — Self-Publishing Your Way to Internet Success: Part 6 Protecting and Registering Your Ebook
Once you’ve created your ebook, you’ll want to take the necessary steps to protect your work. Although many ebook compilers will enable you to password protect your ebook, none can offer complete security.
Copyrighting Your Ebook
The moment you create your ebook, the US copyright laws protect you. However, if you should need to file an infringement lawsuit, you must register. Although registration is generally voluntary, it is recommended, as you certainly don’t want your work to be copied and claimed by someone else. If you don’t take the time to register a copyright, you may have little or no recourse should your work be illegally copied.
Visit the following sites to register online:
MediaRegister
http://www.mediaregister.com
Click and Copyright
http://www.clickandcopyright.com/
For further information, visit the US Copyright Office:
http://www.loc.gov/copyright/
International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
Once you get your copyright, your next step will be to obtain an ISBN.
An ISBN is a 10-digit number that uniquely identifies books and similar products that are published internationally. It is used to uniquely identify one specific title, whether it is a book, ebook or similar product from one specific publisher. This number is completely unique to that one title or edition.
If you would like to sell your ebooks in bookstores or online, you’ll need to obtain an ISBN. Once you obtain your ISBN, you can submit your title to be listed in the Books in Print database. Bookstores and Libraries refer to Books in Print when they need to order a particular book from a publisher.
When you’re ready to order your ISBN, keep in mind, it can never be reused. Once it is assigned to a specific title, it cannot be used again — even if the title is no longer available. What this means is that if you update your book in any way, you will have to get a new number. In addition, if you’re offering your ebook in different formats, you must use a separate ISBN for each format.
The current price is $225 for 10 numbers, which is the minimum you can purchase. You can order right online and should receive your numbers within 10 business days.
For further information, visit:
http://www.isbn.org/
http://www.bowker.com/
Bookland EAN Bar Codes
If you’re planning on placing your ebook on CD-ROM, you’ll need to use a bar code specifically designed for books. The Bookland European Article Number (EAN) is the standard bar code used in the book industry. It enables the ISBN to be encoded directly into the bar code.
An EAN begins with 978, which is the Bookland prefix. This code is used on books and similar products internationally. This code will enable a retailer to scan the code and easily identify a book by its ISBN. When the book is sold, the cashier can scan the Bookland EAN bar code and retrieve the book price and other important information from the bookseller’s database.
For further information, visit isbn.org to review their list of Bookland EAN Bar Code suppliers:
http://www.isbn.org/standards/home/isbn/us/barcode.html
If you’re serious about publishing an ebook, make sure you research all of your options before you start. You must look at the entire picture before deciding upon the right format, whether or not you should copyright your ebook and if you’ll need a bar code. You never know, once you write your ebook, you may want to expand your market and offer your ebook in different formats. Not only can you publish your ebook in PDF or EXE format, but you can also place it on CD-ROM, format it for ebook reading devices or even Print on Demand. The possibilities are endless.
In part 7 of our series, we will focus on accepting payment on the Internet.
Copyright © Shelley Lowery
About the Author:
Shelley Lowery is the author of the acclaimed web design course, “Web Design Mastery” (www.webdesignmastery.com) and “eBook Starter - Give Your eBooks the look and feel of a REAL book” (www.ebookstarter.com)
Visit www.Web-Source.net to sign up for a complimentary subscription to eTips and receive a copy of Shelley’s acclaimed ebook, “Killer Internet Marketing Strategies.”
You have permission to publish this article electronically, in print, in your ebook, or on your web site, free of charge, as long as the author bylines are included.
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How to Create and Sell Your First Ebook (2)
Ten Steps Guide for Newbies
Step Two: Why an Ebook?
If you are just entering the Internet business kingdom, one of the first things you realize is that you need to create your own product if you want to be successful.
One of the first options coming up here is an info product which is appearing in the form of an ebook. Why and ebook is considered as a good starting point here? Let’s see some of the considerations here:
* It is a digital product and that means no paper expenses
* It is very easy to reproduce at almost zero cost
* It is delivered automatically online without human efforts
* It contains active links to your websites or affiliates
The above advantages are very important when you compare with hardcopy products and especially when you compare the profits you generate. The profits from paper books are hardly reaching 10% for the author, while the profits from the e-books are starting from 25% and may go up to 100%.
Ebooks are very flexible in their sizes and contents. You can create a 15 pages report or 3 pages practical Guide and send it as a gift or even sell it, if the information is in great demand. Later on, you can include those ebooks in your bonus section of the next products you are going to create.
One of the biggest advantages of the e-books is their huge role in the so called Viral Marketing strategy. Viral Marketing strategy is about delivering quality information to the customers for free. And here is the main advantage of the ebooks. They can be easily and instantly delivered to the customer at no cost.
The viral effect comes from the links inside the ebook. If the customers likes the information, delivered for free than there is very high probability that the links will be used and the subsequent sails will be completed.
There is endless opportunity lying in front of the ebooks. Let’s use them.
Look for the next Step Three: How to Choose Your Niche.
Teo Gee
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The Rich Jerk - Is it any good?
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It’s so tempting to write ebooks yet again, on “How To Make Money on the Internet” isn’t it?
You see the thousands of books pitching the next big tip, technique or strategy for making money online.
You get a flood of email from guru’s who have made it big in the world of internet marketing products, writing ebooks on that topic. Or have they really made it big?
OK, They Are Going To Lynch Me For Saying This!
Could it be that these gurus HAVE to be highly visible, run seminar after seminar and stay in your face to be able to LIVE marketing to this niche?
Honestly, I know many of the best online marketing professionals out there - and they are far from living like Donald Trump.
Yes, they make take a vacation - but rest assured, at least part of it is a working vacation.
It’s true, the internet marketing niche market is quite a responsive one, but there are BIG problems…
First and foremost, it’s quite small,
The keyword selection is quite tiny, and…
It is one of the most competitive markets out there
So what am I trying to say?
Make Life Easier For Yourself, Pick Another Niche!
Let me try and make my point. Let’s compare the searches for few keywords I came across this last week using the incredible Adword Analyzer Tool —>
http://www.infoproductcreator.com/part/adwanalyze
These are monthly searches, followed by the number of sites that already offer products to this niche and the top bid on Overture Pay-per-click (a definite indicator of competitiveness):
Internet Marketing: 115,903 - 11,600,000 - $3.51/click
Marketing Online: 23,157 - 11,400,000 - $6.02/click
Dog Name: 221,290 - 1,950,000 - .10/click
Wood Working: 74,382 - 4,840,000 - .54/click
Storage Shed: 55,252 - 689,000 - .62/click
If this doesn’t make you run away from targeting the internet marketing niche - nothing will!
Let’s say you focus on writing a special report, book or membership site focused on naming dogs - including other dog-related information.
You would have roughly double the demand, approximately 80% less supply and a 35 clicks more per dollar than Internet Marketing, and over 60 more clicks than Online Marketing.
Bottom line is…Capitalize on Opportunity Filled Niches
There are hundreds upon hundreds of other niche markets with little competition, cost effective traffic and eager customers that you have a much greater probability of getting to.
I have been spending significant time capitalizing on these niche markets over the last 6-months.
Here’s How To Find Hot Niche Markets
Pay attention to what’s around you.
Take notice of what books, magazines, media are popular.
What is the latest demand for cookbooks, health, business, exercise, self-help, pets, travel, etc…
Plug those topics into a keyword search tool - I always use Adword Analyzer (http://www.infoproductcreator.com/part/adwanalyze) as it gives you supply, demand as well as keyword popularity.
No time to research?
You can try a powerful new program created by respected online professionals Jimmy D Brown and Ryan Deiss - called Nicheology
http://www.highertrustmarketing.com/part/nicheology
This site does all the hard work for you - gives you profiles of RED HOT niche markets, several products you can re-package as you like and tons of support creating wealth with niche marketing.
A terrific way to get started is to setup a mini-site, write some articles, create 4-5 product categories and find affiliate products to test out different ideas.
Make sure you collect opt-in subscribers by creating a brief minicourse or automated newsletter. This will quickly give you a market you can survey and discover new product opportunities.
This is a perfect system because you can get started within days, begin earning profit very quickly, start building content to attract search engines and bundle into future products, all the while learning about your target market - identifying new product and service opportunities.

About The Author
Jeff Smith is dedicated to helping you turn your knowledge into highly desirable, hot selling information-based products (eBooks, booklets, seminars, courses, etc…) Through his highly acclaimed site: http://www.highertrustmarketing.com you will find exactly what it takes to create and market high-profit infoproducts.
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* Amazon.com’s e-bookstore distributes titles that can be read with the Microsoft Reader.
* BarnesAndNoble.com carries titles for the Microsoft Reader, RCA REB 1100, and the Glassbook Reader.
* eBookCity utilizes their proprietary Versaware system.
* Booklocker’s titles are mainly in Acrobat, with a few HTML titles.
How can you use this to your advantage? By adapting your ebook to each of these formats you stand a better chance of influencing potential readers to purchase your title.
Remember, while a reader may not visit your site on a regular basis, they will typically visit your colleagues, competitors, or industry sites. Get your title featured in all potential sales venues - no matter what format the ebook is sold in - and you’ll reach them more frequently.
Cost to transform each book is minimal, because you only have to convert a title to a specific format one time. There are no physical distribution costs. And what you reap in overall exposure, as well as additional sales can be tremendous.
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Jim Edwards sent out a survey about e-books. He asked a variety of questions. But the number one thing everyone wanted to know was this: “How do I find out if my e-book will sell—before I write it?”
Obviously, that’s a great question. If anyone could accurately determine the salability of an e-book before it was written, that person could be a billionaire. Every aspiring author would hire him, or her, to judge their idea.
The truth is, there is no guaranteed way to 100% accurately test an idea for an e-book before you actually begin to sell it. Yes, you can run ads for your e-book and see if it will fly or not. But that’s not totally accurate. Or guaranteed. And if people buy and you don’t deliver that e-book within 30 days, it’s also illegal.
But there *is* a way to massively improve the odds of your e-book being something the public will want. This is something you can do right now, before you write a word of your e-book.
Let me explain this system to you:
I researched the 1800s to write my book on P.T. Barnum.
I researched the 1920s to write my book on Bruce Barton.
I researched the last 150 years to write my book on ads.
And I’ve been researching ancient Roman history to write a forthcoming book on old world marketing practices. What I discovered in the most unforgettable way is that in every era, people wanted the exact same things.
People never change. They will always have the same basic desires. Technology will change. People won’t. Today we have e-books. That’s a new technology. Yet what people want to read in those e-books will remain the same as always. Human desires are hard-wired into our DNA.
That’s good. By knowing what people want, you can profit from their desires. And since their desires are predictable, your ability to make money from your ideas just got a lot more bankable, as well.
So, what exactly do people want to read about?
First, the top three general categories are these: Food, sex, and money.
There will *always* be a market for new cookbooks, new books on love, and new books on ways to make money. That will never change. Ever. So if you have an idea that fits in one of those categories—and if it’s a new spin on existing ideas—you may have a wining race horse.
Second, Jim Edwards and I identified the TOP Ten tried and true subjects for e-books in our own e-book, “How to Write and Publish Your Own e-Book in as little as 7 Days.”
Our own research proves these ten resaons are just as reliable as the three more general ones that I discovered. These are the subjects people will *always* want to know about. Since those subjects are listed in our e-book, I won’t discuss them here.
Third, after Jim and I wrote our e-book, we discovered 16 more subjects that people always want to know about. These, too, are proven hot buttons for people. When I reviewed my studies from the last several years, I realized that these 16 topics are things people will always want to know more about, too. Here they are:
11. To attract sex. 12. To keep their possessions. 13. To have more fun. 14. To satisfy curiosity. 15. To protect their family. 16. To be in style. 17. To have beautiful possessions. 18. To quench their appetite. 19. To emulate others. 20. To avoid trouble. 21. To avoid criticism. 22. To be an individual 23. To protect their reputation. 24. To grab opportunities 25. To be safe. 26. To make work easier.
So, how does this system work?
Okay. Say you have an idea for a book on how to make money in network marketing. Will it sell? Since people want to (20) avoid trouble and (26) make their work easier, I’d say chances are good it would. Add to this formula the fact that people always want to know how to make money (one of the top three subjects hard-wired into our make-up) and yes, the book could sell.
And what if you have an idea for a book on how to find cool things at garage sales? Would that sell? If you tied the title to a direct benefit—such as to make money—then your idea could work. In other words, title the e-book something like, “How To Make A Fortune In Garage Sales” and you just made it fit one of the basic human desires. If you can also tie it to (14) satisfying their curiosity about garage sales, all the better.
What if you have a technical book idea, such as an e- book on how to filter out spam? No sweat. People want to save time, so you might tie your idea to that benefit. “How to Save Time By Eliminating Spam!” might work. Or you could even tie your idea to (23) protecting their reputation. Then your e-book might be “Protect Your Name By Stopping Spam!”
Get the idea? You can take almost any e-book idea you may have and improve the odds of it selling by simply matching it to one of the 16 categories above or the TOP 10 listed in our e-book. It’s easy.
Now, before the critics rush in and shoot at any holes they see in this system, let me add these final words:
A book that sells is more than “a good idea.” It’s an idea well expressed. It’s an idea packaged in an irresistible way. It’s an idea targeted at a specific niche audience. And it’s an idea that works once people begin to implement it.
In short, make your book idea fit one of the key categories people are proven to want more information on. Title it to reflect benefits people want. Describe it in your sales letter in ways that activate people’s basic desires. Just be sure you deliver what you promise.
Do all that and your e-book will sell—guaranteed!
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You have a lovely backyard…a beautiful lawn with children playing, a small swimming pool and a nice flower garden. You long for an outdoor kitchen so that you can enjoy nature’s beauty, relax as well as treat your guests to some light meals outdoors itself.
How do you go about your outdoor kitchen design? Here are some useful tips to get you started. Firstly you can check the various designs available and see what would suit your purse and style. You can go for a simple bar shaped design with a grill, sink and storage space if you would like to keep expenses down.
You may choose an L shape design with a countertop, bar stools and a lot more storage space if you think you can invest more. In case you want a more sophisticated one try the U shape. But if you really can afford it and would like to show off your lovely outdoor kitchen then the best bet is a custom made kitchen island.
You will surely need some lighting, you may include solar lighting or ambience lighting in your outdoor kitchen design. You will need to concentrate on the materials that you choose - preferably polymer, teak wood or cypress wood, stainless steel can also weather any kind of storm.
Learn how to build your own fire pit and enjoy your garden or outdoor backyards.
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