Ebook vs. Print Book: Choosing the Right Format

Ebook vs. Print Book: Choosing the Right Format

  

  • vaishali
    VAISHALI S
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    1. How do eBooks Work?

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    Technically, eBooks work with a technology called E Ink® with a process called Electrophoresis. Popular eReaders like Amazon Kindle use E Inks.

    What do E Inks and Electrophoresis do?

    The idea is to give an electronic display of a book from the convenience of a computer screen or any digital screen size. Plus, the user should experience easy readability, portability, and user-friendliness like a paper book. In simple terms, you need a quality eBook reader to make your eBooks work.

    Once you have a good eBook reader, you can download thousands of eBooks available from the internet. You have free eBooks for download. Or, you can go for a paid eBook subscription as per your convenience.

    To make your work easier, here are the best user-friendly and top-rated eReaders for you.

    Amazon Kindle

    Cool Reader

    FBReader

    Moon + Reader

    Barnes & Noble Nook app

    Bluefire Reader

    Wattpad

    KOBO

    Install your preferred apps. Finish the formalities. Enjoy hundreds of eBooks from their digital eBook library to your smartphones, desktops, laptops, tablets.

    If you don’t have eBook Reader devices like Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader, Apple Reader, etc. you can install the Reading apps on your preferred personal device.

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    2. Why are some eBooks so expensive?

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    EBook pricing depends on different factors.

    ● eBook publishers or publishing platforms can fix the price.

    ● With self-published eBooks, the authors will set the prices.

    ● Based on popularity, no. of downloads, user-reviews, book publishing houses, and who the author is, eBooks can be expensive.

    ● Pre-Orders (sometimes they are priced low to attract buyers) and New-Releases of eBooks will be expensive similar to paperback and hardcovers of pre-orders and new releases.

    ● Highly expected eBooks will be expensive initially.

    ● EBook authors can take control and fix a price higher than ePublishing houses.

    ● The growing eBook market can also be a reason for the pricing in recent times.

    ● To make their printing business stays afloat, few eBooks Publishers have raised the price.

    Not all eBooks are expensive. You can find thousands of eBooks for low cost or as free downloadable.

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    3. How to write eBooks?

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    Planning to write an EBook?

    Here are the key steps you need to follow to write a good eBook.

    Phase 1: Creating your EBook

    ● Pick your writing niche.

    ● Pick what type of eBook you want to write. Do you want it to be a short-story, informative, novel type, Q&A type, education-related, any specific genre, etc.?

    ● Make a rough structure for your eBook with the topics you like to cover, index page style, things you want to include, etc.

    ● Once done, find a specific topic. You can select based on your target audience, popular demands, your niche writing area, survey results, Google Analytics, Keyword-popularities, etc.

    ● You need a great Title to bring in readers. Your Title should have some “wow” factor to it.

    ● Make sure your content is unique, interactive, and engaging.

    ● Depending upon the eBook, do your research.

    ● Read eBooks available in your writing niche. See how they have done it.

    ● Write your eBook in an easily-understandable and user-friendly style.

    ● Refer a book and design the Index-Part for your eBook.

    ● You can include an author page, table of contents, prefaces, back-page description, etc.

    ● The next important step in writing your eBook is choosing an appropriate format. Preferred eBooks formats are PDF, EPUB, MOBI, PRC, TXT, RTF.

    ● Your eBook should be compatible with different digital platforms, personal-devices, and eBook readers. Go for a highly-preferred Format like EPUB3.

    ● Edit your book thoroughly. You can hire professional editors. Or, you can pick a pro editing software’s to work.

    ● Proofread your work.

    ● You need an awesome eBook cover design. You can attract more readers. You can give it to graphic designers, or you can do it yourself with the help of Canva, Adobe, or other designing platforms available.

    ● Use EBook document writing software. You will get access to attractive eBook templates, precise document-editing tools, document conversion facilities, and other enrichments to your manuscript.

    ● Finally, ready your eBook.

    Once your eBook is ready, the next thing you need to do is to make it available to people on the internet. Marketing and Selling your eBook is important for you.

    Phase 2: Putting your eBook out to the internet

    For that:

    ● Pick a good eBook Publishing platform.

    ● If you are new to eBooks, then start with the Amazon KDP platform first. They will let you fix your price point and give good sales-returns to you.

    ● Use social media, personal blog sites, affiliate programs, reviewing panels, discussions, etc. to promote your eBook.

    ● Make your eBook reachable to your target audience by marketing online and offline.

    ● The ePublishing platform will offer their hand in promoting and selling your eBooks.

    Now you are all set.

    If you are new to eBooks, these primary steps will help you write good eBooks with no hassle.

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    4. What are the best eBooks Subscription services worth looking at?

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    If you like to have unlimited access to eBook collections, you can check out highly-preferred eBook subscription sites like:

    ● Scribd–You can have a free trial. Or you can go for the paid version. You can access audiobooks too.

    ● Kindle Unlimited–It has the largest collection of around 1 million eBooks. Plus, you can access the Audible audiobook service. You can try it for a 30-day free trial. And then you can go for a paid subscription if you like.

    ● Bookmate– It doesn’t have a free trial. But, if you like to give it a try, they charge you a small fee for a three-month trial period.

    ● 24Symbols– There is no free trial. But the price is affordable as they charge per year and not a month.

    ● Kobo Plus– It offers a free trial. And if you like it, you can go for a monthly payment subscription.

    These five eBook subscription services are compatible with multiple platforms like iOS, Android, Kindle eBook, Nook, and Mac. And they all give access to thousands of eBooks, online textbooks, eMagazines, etc.

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    5. How to save my eBook?

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    You can save eBooks in different formats like Doc, Docx, RTF, pdf.

    But, to make your eBook accessible across multiple OS platforms and devices, you have three important formats to look into.

    They are:

    ● If your eBook is exclusive for Kindle users–save/convert your eBook as AZW File.

    ● If you like to give the best user-experience and re-flow to your eBook, go for saving the eBook in the EPUB version. The .ePUB format supports smartphones too. If you ask us, the best option for you is to go for .ePUB versions.

    ● A common format to save your eBook is PDF. But you will not have rich interactive features.

    ● Make sure your eBook images are in RGB and not in CMYK.

    If you are using ePublishing platforms, you will not have trouble in saving or converting your eBook in the right format. Multi-platform compatibility of eBooks will be easy for you.

    If you are working on your eBook offline using offline document creating software, you can save your file first in the usual document format. Then, you can use online eBook conversion sites to do the work.

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    6. What are the pros and cons of self-publishing eBooks?

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    Pros of Self-Publishing eBooks:

    1. Self-Publishing eBooks are cheaper.

    2. You have the sole claim over your eBook idea, eBook creation, and everything in it.

    3. The growing eBook market is supporting many self-publishing eBooks to come forward.

    4. You can have full control over cover designs, contents, editing, proofreading, etc.

    5. There is no control over your creativity.

    6. Self-Published eBooks will bring back high royalty rates for you.

    7. You have your own deadline, which is great. You can tackle what life throws at you. You can work on your eBook. Publishing houses will give a timeline or timeframe to work.

    8. Finding good ePublishing platforms are easy.

    9. Reaching hundreds of thousands of people in a day is easy.

    10. Traditional book deals can be complex and tedious. But self-publishing eBooks are easier and quicker.

    11. The eBook licensing will not have complexities compared to traditional book publishing.

    12. You can choose a book editor and a proofreader by yourself.

    13. Marketing, promotions and affiliations are up to you. You can choose what works best for your eBook.

    Cons of Self-Publishing eBooks:

    1. Creating your book is on you. Take up the entire charges waiting to incur. Traditional publishing houses will give book advance for authors.

    2. Pay for editors, proofreaders, cover designers from your own pocket.

    3. If the eBook doesn’t sell enough, you have to meet the money loss.

    4. A high % of people prefer paperback and hardcovers to date.

    5. The love for books from traditional publishing houses will never fade.

    6. Low-cost self-published eBooks bring the image of low quality and poor author to people.

    7. You will not have professional agents to negotiate a good book deal.

    8. Promoting and Marketing will be on your shoulders.

    9. Sometimes you feel you need an extra shoulder to carry the responsibilities.

    10. Your eBook Visibility is an important issue here. It all depends upon algorithms that determine where to put your eBook based on ratings and reviews.

    We have analyzed the major pros and cons you find in self-publishing eBooks.

    Depending on your work nature, business type, time availability, and other life factors, it is up to you to choose between traditional publishing and self-publishing.

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    7. What are the Pros and Cons of Long-form content and eBooks for Online Business and Merchants?

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    There is a considerable increase in implementing a content marketing strategy for online business and among online merchants.

    Promoting the business, establishing the brand, showcasing your product, gaining new customers, the increase in sales can work out easily if you have the right content marketing strategy.

    The eBooks, long-form-content is the preferred content marketing strategy people take up today.

    Let us discuss what the long-form content has in its bag for us.

    Pros of Long-form content for online business and Merchants:

    ● You can use eBooks, blogs, social media to promote your product and brand. It allows online merchants and businesses to boost their sales and reach.

    ● Long-form content helps your customers get an idea of what you are doing, what values you stand for, and how you are doing your business.

    ● You can increase your brand credibility with long-form content.

    ● If you go for long-form-content, you have the advantage of making it interesting for your customers by bringing user-friendly interactive features like images, illustrations, drawings, artworks, etc.

    ● You can add review forms, testing results, demos, how-to tutorials, FAQ sections, Tips, blog pieces, articles, etc. to your long-form content.

    ● Making the long-form-content ungated (as free access) can significantly increase your reach.

    ● Multinational companies, telecommunication service providers, automobile brands, consumer products, and top businesses use long-form content to promote their products, businesses, and services to customers.

    ● A keyword specific SEO rich long-form-content can bring more user traffic to your online site.

    ● We can make the technical aspects of your products easy for customers via engaging long-form content.

    Cons of Long-Form content for Online Merchants:

    ● Long-form contents are not smartphones friendly. A lengthy content for the small screen can be a disadvantage.

    ● Creating long-form-content regularly can be a time-consuming, resource-consuming job.

    ● The lead generation today finds ungated, free quick access preferable instead of giving your full credentials and contact information to access eBooks.

    ● Not everyone prefers Long-form content. Some people like to understand things quickly with few pages.

    ● Even with Infographics, illustrations, and images, long-form-content can seem lengthy.

    ● You get benefits when you build your content and land it on your website or blog.

    Smart long-form content will be an advantage for online merchants and businesses.

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