Publishing an Ebook is a must!

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With the growing number in sales of ebooks, authors are realizing that only having their work on paper will not help their book sales overtime. The trend of readers switching from traditional books to tablets is continuously growing and people are starting to search for books online rather than in a book store or library. Nowadays, an author finds success in book sales through publishing their novels as ebooks


3 Reasons to publish an Ebook:

1. According to publishgreen.com, ebook sales came in at around 114 million in 2011 and are expected to reach 9.7 billion by 2016.
2. Authors need to sell their books online because the amount of Internet users has been increasing every year 
3. 54% of ereaders say that they read more now than 6 months prior because of ebooks. This means that some readers clearly prefer ebooks over traditional books and probably only use ebooks for reading.

It takes some work, but it's POSSIBLE!

There are several websites that offer guides and steps in publishing an ebook, such as smashwords.com. Smashwords is one of the largest distributors of self-published ebooks and offers simple steps in publishing ebooks. 

• First, an author needs to upload a word document to the company's "Meatgrinder" tool with a cover image. 
• Secondly, the author formats the ebook to however they desire. 
• In an instant, the author may start selling their ebook on the website or have the company distribute it to several ebook sellers. 

Seems pretty simple right?

An ebook success story :,)

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To be successful in the ebook business, your novels or your own name do not need to be well-known. Although it seems difficult to make it big if you are a new author, it is very possible to be successful by publishing ebooks. According to transformationalwriters.com, Darcy Chan became a best selling literary fiction author through publishing ebooks. She has sold over 400,000 ebooks even after being turned down by 100 agents and 20 publishers and has never actually published a single printed book.
 If Darcy Chan can do it, any one can!