Mar
22

How Do I Create An E Book?

By Jim Corbett

Tools Used In Creating eBooks

Delivering Your Intellectual Property

mmos-ebookThere are many different software tittles you can use to create an E-Book. Generally speaking your creation should be unalterable so, that really only leaves you with two format types. The biggest issue with E books is consumption, how to allow the document to be read by most everyone. This also leaves mainly two different file types, PDF and EXE

PDF

The simplest method would probably be to format your creation as a ‘.pdf’. PDF stands for Portable Document Format. The most popular PDF creation software tool would be Adobe Acrobat. If Adobe Acrobat is out of your price range you can always get a lesser priced software such as CutePDF.

The way they work essentially is, you create a document in word and then convert it to the PDF format with in the PDF software or, in the case of Acrobat, also with the additional menu it adds to Microsoft Word. You can then add many different security setting to your document including passwords to open and or print the document. The key to the whole process is the freely available PDF readers available on the marketplace, without them, the PDF format simply would not be a practical solution. All in all using a PDF creation software tool to encode your E-Book is a very easy, fast and, cost effective solution.

EXE

A slightly more complex and typically less understood solution is to create an ‘.exe’. EXE stands for Executable. The executable file type in essence is small program that must be installed on your computer. This program controls everything from the way way the E book is presented to linking and printing. The main drawbacks for this type of E book creation software is screen size. Most EXE software program will not allow the user to display a ‘full screen’ representation of you creation. Additionally, the learning curve, while not steep, is greater than that of PDF software. Also, you can do nothing more with the application. The greatest advantage to this type of encoding is many of these types of E book creation tools allow you to ‘turn off’ any single distributed copy.

The sunject matter for your eBook is entirely up to you. You only need to know the material well enough to guide a user of a lesser level through to a goal. As long as you can do that, you’re in a good position to make some money with ebooks.

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