How do you write good quality ebooks?

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bigfoot12

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So that your readers will read them and not put the book down?

If you have access to certain articles or information, please share.
 


That's essentially the same question as asking how do you write a quality regular book. By grabbing the user's interest/attention whether it be creatively, informatively, or controversial - a stance against their core belief or views to get them emotional about it. It's the same thing as creating a viral campaign.

Your question is essentially - how can you be interesting or creative... difficult to answer...​
 
You can start by reading books and writing in your off-time to familiarize yourself with what good writing actually is. Develop a voice for yourself and a writing style you're comfortable with, and don't be verbose, write concisely as you can. Also remember that not every person who publishes a book has to be Shakespeare or Borges, especially when you're writing non-fiction.

If you're able to write properly then that's just about enough you need to write a decent non-fiction book, especially if it's self-publishing. Though I recommend you start studying books in how they're structured and voiced, so you can replicate this in your own works.

As for articles or information, there is none, every writer will tell you the same, read more books and do more writing. It's a skill and must be practiced, so write, and you have to know what you're trying to practice for, so read. It's like if you want to become a professional snowboarder, you watch them on Youtube, and then when you go to the slopes you have an idea of what techniques you need to learn and what level you need to be at to compete.
 
I think you will benefit from understanding the four learning styles. There are people who want to know:

What it is
Why you should use it
How you should use it
What you can do right now to start using it

Balance these four elements and you have a greater chance that you'll keep the largest amount of people reading.

Also, spend some time in the beginning congratulating the reader on being smart enough to pick up your book. If you boost their ego, they'll look for more of that on the coming pages.

Something I'm working on integrating is confusing activity with accomplishment in order to build ascension models, which is to say, having the reader feel like they are doing something and achieving, but only in so far as they need to buy the next product in the chain to keep that feeling going. And the chain, in principle, never ends ...
 
You need to find a good copywriter that can write captivating content. The thing is if you find a really good copywriter they can be expensive. It's usually best to write down all your thoughts, lay it out the best you can, and then go to a copywriter and have them make edits and fix it up a bit.
 
Whenever I've written an eBook, I've made the key points very easy to follow, and the detailed instructions/descriptions less prominent, but still easily accessible so the reader can skip over stuff they already know.
I don't think anyone wants to hear you go on about simple stuff for pages, but it's necessary to make your eBook noob friendly.
 
Model what other successful people did, everything in marketing can be solved by modeling the structure of other successful things. Be warned, you can rip people off to a certain point, never steal other peoples work, unless you like peppered angus. I don't think I'd be a successful SEO/SEM/Marketer/GayWebmaster if it weren't for modeling.
 
There are tons of ghostwriters on fiverr. Spend a few bucks and test out a few writers. Use another fiverr seller for the cover art.
Done.
 
EBOOKS ARE DEAD!!


Kind of a carry over Banner Blindness thing.



"Guides" formatted for Kindle are the new eBook. (If you're doing How-To's.)

If it's a regular Book/Novel then it's a no-brainer, publish it for Kindle and then have it ready in other formats in case they are needed.

https://kdp.amazon.com/help?topicId=A2MB3WT2D0PTNK

http://kindlegen.s3.amazonaws.com/AmazonKindlePublishingGuidelines.pdf


How to Successfully Self-Publish a Kindle eBook | Michael Hyatt


P.S. Other posters gave you writing advice, so I only included the last link which has writing basics and Kindle info in it.
 
Great input so far. Don't forget how important editing and revising your content can be. Review yourself, but it's even more effective to have others input on your work (especially people in your target audience).
 
Midas Touch said:
How to Successfully Self-Publish a Kindle eBook | Michael Hyatt
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Hyatt is not a bad person to look at for the social media end of things. I found his Platform book worth the time it took to read it on audiobook at 2x speed and implemented a few things.

But I think he's mislead with the power of Twitter and Facebook. I wouldn't recommend spending time on that stuff, but instead on making sure you're producing material that people actually want so that you don't have to rely so heavily on reviews. If you can put something together that will rank without having to rely on reviews, then when you get them, you'll just go up and up and in some cases, negative reviews can even help you.

Oh, and think Evergreen. Not as easy as it sounds, but worth putting some thought into and there are several niches you can waltz into that will never fade.

And the more Evergreen it is, the more likely it is that people will read every page.
 
Hey OP, if you don't mind me asking, what is your motivation for writing this book? Do you have a specific product/brand you are trying to supplement? A site you are trying to launch?

It would help to know where to point our guns :)
 
Hi,

As a current eBook seller, I can give you a couple pieces of advice.

1) Don't publish it as an eBook. Go physical. Why - couple reasons. First is piracy. When was the last time you photocopied a 200 page book for a friend? IF you were born in the last 15 years you might not know what a photocopier is. Second - you can charge more. People are used to amazon charging $0.99 for a freaking book. There is no way I will ever sell the information I publish for that price. So people have a hard time forking over for it. Make it physical. A physical copy with bonus access to a members only website with much of the same information is what I'm shooting for at the moment. Ebooks are kinda old. Cross platform issues, blah blah blah. Don't produce a QUALITY ebook. It's not worth you time. Bunch of little $0.99 guides are ok - Quality - not worth your time for an eBook.

2) Be an expert at the subject matter. Anyone with a hint of sense can tell when you're trying to BS your way through content. Plus when people email you with questions you're totally screwed unless you know what you're talking about.

If you have those two things, you can hire writing style to rewrite your copy.

My $0.02.
 
On the piracy side of things - I can tell you most people can and will try to get it for free. I have a fairly small niche (sold 5k max copies to date. Blame my poor marketing skills) I have people visiting my site with the keywords "my ebook name + torrent". Makes me wanna put a fake torrent out there that freaks them out telling them their IP has been logged for trying to use a fake copy w/o a license and then urge them to go buy a legal one. Unless you got yours locked down hard (mine is pretty locked down) this will be a problem. My customers are fairly non-saavy (think - it downloaded and I don't know where it is) and yet they still try to get around paying. Not a huge issue, but once you've spent a few thousand on an IP lawyer you will start to get a touch paranoid.
 
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