Ebook Publication Computers changed industry in a huge way when they became popular in the Eighties and Nineties. Then the Net brought a new wave if innovation in the Nineties and Naughties. It is difficult to envisage an industry that has not been profoundly affected by these excellent innovations. The latest industry to get shaken to its core is the publishing industry. Publishers used to have a stranglehold on which books got published and which did not. Publishers yardstick for whether to publish or not was purely financial: is the book liable to make money or not? This is reasonable enough, but it means a heavy predisposition towards commercial novels written by famous authors. It was very difficult for new writers to get a foot in the door. The music industry was the first part of the publishing industry to lose its domination over its province. The book publishing sector will become the next to go and the movement is already well underway. Nowadays, you can download a free publishing software package which is at least as feature-packed as MS Office. Open Office has a powerful word processor with which you can compose your book. It has an picture editor with which you may design the book cover and other illustrations. It also has a built in PDF conversion module. This equals that you may publish your ebook in a style that any computer in the world can read. Once your book is ready to publish, there are at least two ways to go, if you live outside the US; within the US, Google will help as well. Google's Publisher works like Amazon's more non-discriminatory system, so let us have a look at that one. First go to Amazon and then click through to Kindle Direct Publishing, a sister firm of theirs. Then you will need to open an account with Kindle DP. This is easy, free and quick. Go to your bookshelf and click on 'Add A New Title'. Follow the instructions and your book will get uploaded into the Amazon system. You choose how much you want to sell it for and you can decide on how much of that you would like for yourself. It seems a daft question, but you can take up to 70%. If your book is accepted by a reviewer, it will be assigned an exclusive book number and will be part of the huge number of books that Amazon sells worldwide. It will be downloadable anywhere in the world; Amazon will process the payment and keep the money in your account. You will also be able to download a bit of code to promote your book on your own website. The alternative is ClickBank. ClickBank will also arrange for your book will be showcased to over 100,000 affiliates who might be prepared to help you sell your book for a percentage of the profits.
Look very cautiously at CB's small print on paying out. I have sold things on CB and never got a bean from them, because of the small print. I do not trouble with them any more. Amazon is the route to go. In 2010 they sold more ebooks than paper books for the first time ever. They also have a motive to be promoting ebooks - the Kindle, which is their own ebook reader. A traditional publisher would pay the author 5-6% of the profits on a book with Kindle it is 70% of the sales cost - that is a big advantage for the author. Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on a variety of subjects, but is now involved with electronic book devices. If you want to know more, please go to our website at Kindle vs Book