eBook Maker

First Step

Here are a few thoughts along the way. First, you should subscribe to the InfoProduct Masters eCourse by Ken Evoy. (Just click on the previous link and send a blank email. It's FREE!) Ken will guide you through an intensive 5-Day course that will help you understand the basics for creating any kind of an InfoProduct.

Second Step

Second, create your title. Make it clear. You might want to write several titles and put them out in a survey to others and see what they think.

Your title should be short and if you choose a subtitle it should be simple as well while giving some more tidbits about your InfoProduct. The InfoProduct cover to the left is a prime example. Remember, buyers are attracted first by your cover and its title.

Buyers do judge a book by its title. Remember, your title will help sell your InfoProduct. Here are a few tips to help you along :

Examine print titles in your "niche" on amazon.com.

• If your InfoProduct is a solution to a problem put the solution in your title. Here's an example: How To Build Auto Lawn Sprinklers
• Be positive.
• Don't bait and switch. Give the reader what you promise in your title in the text of your eBook.
• Subtitles are helpful. Look at the following example.Jump Start Your Book Sales: A Money-Making Guide for Authors, Independent Publishers and Small Presses (Marilyn and Tom Ross)
• Do some research in your local bookstore. Find a model for your cover. Go to a bookstore and browse books that are in the same genre as your InfoProduct. Find what attracts you and sketch the design of the book. You might want to use colored pencils.

Third Step

Third, you can make an InfoProduct by converting HTML or using just plain text. Here are some ideas on HTML and 1st Page, a free HTML editor.

Don't want to get caught up in HTML. I can understand. You're a writer not a technie. Well here's you answer: Word eBook Templates offers a great HTML by-pass to helping you design your InfoProduct.

Fourth Step

In this step you will discover what software package you should use for conversion of your InfoProduct. Here is an important consideration: will you want both PC and MAC users to be able to read your InfoProduct?

Here are some eBook creators to help you create your InfoProduct. These InfoProduct creation software programs work on the same principle: They take your HTML files and create a stand alone EXE file that can be read on PCs but not MACs (see below for MAC Compiler information).

They all have very versatile features. Here are my three favorites: eBookGenerator by Armand Moran. His newest version has the greatest feature ever: you can stop buyers from pirating your InfoProduct with its new disabling feature.

I have used eBook Compiler and eBook Edit Pro and found them very useful and quick.

As we suggested above you will need a cover for your InfoProduct. The best on the market is eCoverGenerator also from Armand Moran. The InfoProduct to your left was made using this program and one of the templates that comes with it. . If you want to have professional help with your cover, you can't go wrong with KillerCovers.

Is there software to create InfoProducts for the MAC? Yes!

The Instant PDF Maker (PC and MAC) another great product by Armand Moran will save you from having to buy Adobe Acrobat in order to make an eBooks that both PC and MAC owners alike can read. It's a gem.

You can give eDOC Creator a spin. It is shareware. I do not own a MAC so I have not taken it around the block so to speak, but if you own a MAC, you can. eDOC Creator 2.1.1 requires MacOS 7 or higher. eDOC Reader 2.1.1 and self-reading documents (SRDs) created from eDOC Creator 2.1.1 still require only System 6.07 or higher. eDOC Creator, eDOC Reader and SRDs are compatible with MacOS 8.5.