Ebooks

[PeeJay]

I'm interested in putting together a cookbook in ebook form. Has anyone here done an ebook? What software did you use? How did you market it?

xoxoxo,
PeeJay

[Joe Jackson]

I have one book on pest control I converted to an ebook. Wrote it in MS Word and re-formatted it to Acrobat PDF. I market it at www.bugsmiceratsnomore.com

I market it on eBay too.

I wrote several sales letter versions based on seasonal pest appearances and one story about an incident with the brown recluse spider that I post online and use as direct mail order marketing.

I also wrote a self-improvement book that is still in unedited, first draft version, waiting for me to schedule the editing process.

[PeeJay]

Hi Joe,

Do you have the inclination to tell us how you re-formatted your ebook to Acrobat PDF? Do I have to buy some software to do it?

xoxoxo,
PeeJay

[Albert Grande]

Albert Grande said:

Yes I have written a number of ebooks.
Most of my ebooks are reports that I have crafted to build my list.
Another one of my ebooks is a transcript of interviews I did with master pizzaiolo.

I do have a cook book called The Pizza Therapy Pizza Book.
Here is the link:
http://legendsofpizza.com/pizzabook/

or you can see it here from my website pizzatherapy

http://pizzatherapy.com/

There are many ways to format your ebook to pdf.

You can download Open Office:

http://www.openoffice.org/

Basically Open Office is a free suite of tools like MS office. One of the tools inside is a pdf converter.

You can also download a free trial of adobe or other pdf converters. Just make sure your ebook is ready to go and formatted before you doenload the trial version.

I use a software called edocprinter pro. Here is the website:

http://iteksoft.com/

I like them becasue they are very responsive with support issues.

If you search for a free pdf you should be able to find one.

My Pizza Therapy Pizza Book has been the mainstay of my website. I sell copies every month.
Here is the model that I use to market it:

I give away a free dough recipe to get people on my email list. Then I gently promote my ebook and other products to my list.

My advice is to get your book out there.

You can do the same thing I did: give away a few recipes or chapters of your ebook.

There are many ways that you can promote it for free. Here are a couple of ways:
set up a free blog at blogger, set up a free squidoo page.
I hope this helps.
pizza on earth,
albert
http://pizzatherapy.com

[PeeJay]

Thank you for all the helpful advice. I'm all excited now. I have to get to work. Thanks for the links to help me get started.

xoxoxo,
PeeJay

Albert Grande said:

Albert Grande said:

Yes I have written a number of ebooks.
Most of my ebooks are reports that I have crafted to build my list.
Another one of my ebooks is a transcript of interviews I did with master pizzaiolo.

I do have a cook book called The Pizza Therapy Pizza Book.
Here is the link:
http://legendsofpizza.com/pizzabook/

or you can see it here from my website pizzatherapy

http://pizzatherapy.com/

There are many ways to format your ebook to pdf.

You can download Open Office:

http://www.openoffice.org/

Basically Open Office is a free suite of tools like MS office. One of the tools inside is a pdf converter.

You can also download a free trial of adobe or other pdf converters. Just make sure your ebook is ready to go and formatted before you doenload the trial version.

I use a software called edocprinter pro. Here is the website:

http://iteksoft.com/

I like them becasue they are very responsive with support issues.

If you search for a free pdf you should be able to find one.

My Pizza Therapy Pizza Book has been the mainstay of my website. I sell copies every month.
Here is the model that I use to market it:

I give away a free dough recipe to get people on my email list. Then I gently promote my ebook and other products to my list.

My advice is to get your book out there.

You can do the same thing I did: give away a few recipes or chapters of your ebook.

There are many ways that you can promote it for free. Here are a couple of ways:
set up a free blog at blogger, set up a free squidoo page.
I hope this helps.
pizza on earth,
albert
http://pizzatherapy.com

[Joe Karszen]

PeeJay said:

Hi Joe,

Do you have the inclination to tell us how you re-formatted your ebook to Acrobat PDF? Do I have to buy some software to do it?

xoxoxo,
PeeJay

[Joe Karszen]

PeeJay:
I wrote my ebook in word and I had it converted to a pdf file from a friend. I hope this helps you out. Joe