How To Make Your Own eBooks From The Grass Roots Up

It can be lucrative to make your own eBooks, which is why so many people are opting to go that route these days.  No longer is it a privilege for the select few but is now an open forum for anyone with an opinion to express.

When you make your own eBooks, the sky is the limit.  You can create your eBook on every topic imaginable from crochet to fly-fishing; the Internet is a diverse place with literally a market out there for everyone, if you know how to pick your market right, that is.

When it comes time to make your own eBooks you need to find out what people want and then give it to them. 

We can do this by visiting:

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

Just enter in any niche topic and the relevant search results are returned.  There you can determine if there is enough valid genuine interest in your particular niche.  If there is enough healthy search volume, say at least 1,000 searches per month then it’s shaping up to be a potentially profitable niche.

The next phase of our research is to determine if people are spending money on our niche.  We can do this by visiting http://www.amazon.com/ and http://www.magazines.com/.  If there are books and magazines centering on our chosen niche then it’s a good sign there’s money to be made.

The next thing to do is to visit forums to get a feel for any frustrations or problems people in your niche face.  Your aim is to relieve these problems with the information you will offer in your product.

So take special note of these questions, write them down and then find the answers to these questions.

Map out your eBook and create it in a word document.  Start with your table of contents and spend at least half or a whole page answering each question.  Use your research to guide the writing process and to answer questions, you’ll find that when you work systematically like this the process is organic and lends itself to intuition.

Once you’ve completed your eBook you need to convert it to a format that’s widely accessible to your whole market, which in most cases is PDF.

You can either purchase a PDF application through Adobe, which tends to be on the pricey side.  If you’re a little strapped for cash there are perfectly good free versions available online such as http://www.zamzar.com/ you can convert file sizes of up to 100MB, which should handle any eBook you might throw at it.  When I created my first eBook, it was just 7 MB in size and there weren’t too many free online converters that were able to cope with an eBook of that magnitude, funny how things change. 

And there you have It your first ever eBook all that’s left to do is share it and make money.  A great place to start is the forum that inspired its creation in the first place.  Place a link to your website in your forum signature file which will garner plenty of interest.

If you want to make your own eBooks, there’s no time like the present.