Portable Ebook Reader

As anticipated, Amazon recently announced the release of the brand, spankin’ new Kindle DX! It’s now available for preorder at Amazon for $489.

“Personal and professional documents look so good on the big Kindle DX display that you’ll find yourself changing ink-toner cartridges less often,” said Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos. “Cookbooks, computer books, and textbooks - anything highly formatted - also shine on the Kindle DX. Carry all your documents and your whole library in one slender package.”

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There are several options for selling ebooks:

1. Build Your Own Website

There are internet marketing and salesletter techniques that can motivate your customers to buy your ebook:

• Credible web design, nice ebook cover graphics
• Convincing words
• Selling psychology

…or you can simply provide your potential customers with sample ebooks:

• Limited chapters can be downloaded
• All chapters are downloaded, but most of the chapters are locked using a password

2. ClickBank

• ClickBank is extremely powerful because it connects buyers, sellers, and marketers for basically any product. If you’re a “seller” you’d have to offer an incentive for marketers to promote your books to potential buyers (such as 20% of the sale of each book).

3. EBay

• The old standard, Ebay is an online marketplace for buying and selling anything. You could create an “EBay Store” to sell all your ebooks. EBay takes a cut of your profits, but only a small percentage.

4. CreateSpace

• This is a FREE online publishing community (brought to you by your friends at Amazon). It’s useful for authors, musicians, and filmmakers to distribute their creations to buyers.

5. LuLu

• Lulu gives authors all the resources and tools they need to sell their ebooks. A great site which connects authors and readers.

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In order to sell Ebooks, you first have to be able to create them. There are many tutorials available online for how to publish an eBook and how to best market your eBook.

Activ E-Book Compiler is a software application that makes this easy.

It is:

• Incredibly easy to use
• A turnkey system that any aspiring electronic publisher can use
• Comes with complete instructions
• Works on computers with Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT4, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Vista (requires Internet Explorer 4 or later)

Here’s just some of the features of the free version of Activ E-Book Compiler:

• Unlimited E-Books: Create as many E-Books as you want.
• Royalty Free: There are absolutely no royalties or on-going fees to use the system.
• Easy Distribution: Each E-Book is a self-contained Windows program. You can distribute them on any media you like, including by Internet download, by e-mail, floppy disk, CD-ROMs, ZIP disks.
• Incredibly Easy to Use: Attractive modern Windows user interface with easy to use buttons and menus. Makes creating E-Books a snap.
• Complete Documentation: Straightforward documentation explaining every menu option - every command - and every option in the program. The documentation even covers the steps you should take before using the program. - like how to design HTML files that compile into a high quality E-Book.
• Compatibility: E-Books created using Activ E-Book use the exact same “engine” as Internet Explorer. This means total compatiblility with the world’s most popular web browser including support for HTML, DHTML, images & animations, JPEG and PNG graphics, JavaScript, VBScript, and most Internet Explorer plug-ins.
• Internet Linking: Use standard HTML features to include links to relevant web sites in your E-Book. When a user clicks on a link to a web site, the program even opens Internet Explorer giving them a chance to connect if they’re not already connected. …And yes, you can even link to your own web site to draw traffic!
• Password Protection:
  • You can password protect your entire E-Book, or just protect selected pages and allow your users to see a preview of part of the book before they get their password.
  • You can boost your ezine subscription rate by requesting readers sign-up before you give them them password.
  • You can customize the message shown when a user accesses a password protected page.
  • You can even allocate up to 1,000 different passwords per E-Book - each user will require a different one from this pool - to prevent password “sharing”.
  • You can even link directly to a form or page on your web site for that specific user to get the password that’ll work for him.
• Powerful Testing Features: Test out how your E-Book would look and work with and without the correct password (assuming you have one) - switch between the 2 modes at any time with a click of the mouse. Compile or Run your E-Book in seconds for truly Rapid Application Development.
• Save your Projects: Unlike some other compilers you don’t have to re-input all your settings each time you want to create a new version of an E-Book. Simply save all your settings - and continue later at any time you’re ready.
• HTML Protection: Right-mouse clicking is controlled by your choice of setting in your E-Books. You can disable it completely or allow access to a limited menu (which does not include View Source). This helps protect your HTML source and stop thieves from easily stealing your valuable page designs.
• Branding: Every E-Book you create includes your name, your company name, your copyright message, and even a link to your web site - and your e-mail address or auto-responder address if you want it!(various options in the compiler, may allow you to turn off visible display of most of this info, or design your own page for it, if wanted).
• Unique Serial Numbers: Every E-Book includes a unique serial number (we call this an “ESBN” - it’s a similar idea to “ISBNs” used for off-line books). This gives you yet another way to keep track of, and manage distribution.
• Viral Marketing: You can create and give away free E-Books, and allow others to do the same. As word about your E-Book spreads, more and more people may distribute your E-Book, and each one becomes a Self-Replicating Traffic Generator.

• Icon Customization: Every E-Book can have its icon. The software comes with over 700 icons for you to choose from - or you can create your own unique icons in your favorite icon editor. (icon editor not included)
• Shareware-Style E-Books: Set your E-Books to expire after a set number of days or uses, unless the password is entered. Giving your users a free trial of all or part of your E-Book is an incredibly powerful tool that can skyrocket your sales.
• User Interface Customization: Turn on or off the availability of toolbars, status bars, colors, text labels on buttons, and more. Create kiosk-style E-Books. Customize the colors of “system” pages. Choose the starting screen position and size of your E-Books. You can even set your E-Books to float on top of other windows (great for instructional guides).
• Splash Screens and Start-Up Messages: Add a splash screen graphic to your E-Book and/or a pop-up message box.
• Built-in Search Engine: An extremely customizable search engine is built-in to your E-Books. If you are creating references or How To manuals, your readers will love this feature.
• Auto Installation Options: Your E-Book can prompt users when first run, and add its icon automatically to the Start menu or Desktop.
• Add-In Programs/Scripts: Kick-off external programs or files on specified events such as when your E-Book is started or closed, or when the correct or incorrect password is entered.
• File Compression: Creating really large E-Books? You’ll be glad to know the latest version of Activ E-Book automatically compresses all your files when compiling E-Books. This can significantly reducing the file size and making it easy and quick for users to download your E-Books.

Create Your Own eBooks Today! Free Trial Download Activ E-Book CompilerMake and sell* your own information products: Simple to use Packed with powerful features* Drive traffic to your web site Create eBooks that you can sell* Start today - Find out how you can test run the Free Trial version of software by clicking here *Note: some features, including making eBooks to sell, are only available in paid (“registered”) version.

Alternatively, you could simply create your own DOC or PDF files, but these won’t have nearly the same features or capabilities as those created by Activ E-Book Compiler.

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Amazon.com has an eDocs department where you can shop from over 1,000,000 articles, documents and books - then download them instantly. Most are quite reasonably priced as well.

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www.buy-ebook.com

Has a great collection of the best ebooks on the Internet and at lower prices than any other site (Except the free ones, of course!).

According to this site, buying an ebook is better than buying a printed book, because:

1. You can buy an ebook right on your computer, without leaving home.
2. You receive your ebook immediately, and you can save it on your hard drive or print it. No shipping charges and no waiting.
3. You’ll find it easy to locate and choose the ebook you want with the help of our directory or search system. Use categories or key words, whichever is easier. Either way, you won’t spend all day searching the aisles and stacks of a bookstore.
4. An ebook doesn’t take up space on your shelf, getting dusty and old.
5. You can even have your computer read your ebook aloud to you with the help of a special program.

Buy-Ebook.com has a catalogue consisting of 50+ categories, which will guide you to find the book you want. They also have a high-quality search engine.

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Having had much success with the Kindle 2 (in part thanks to Oprah’s recommendation), Amazon is rumored to be releasing a new widescreen version soon.

Apparently the new device will have dimensions closer to a standard newspaper, and it’s expected that several large newspapers (such as The New York Times) will partner with Amazon and implement a system to charge for content.

Over the weekend invites were sent out for a press conference later this week. It’s possible that this conference could be the anticipated announcement of the Kindle 2 Widescreen!

Editor’s Note: the image to the right is the original Kindle 2; no sneak preview is available of the widescreen version yet, so you’ll have to use your imagination for now

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