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eBook Creation - Creating an eBook

Creating an eBook and publishing it

Introduction

An eBook or electronic book is an executable file which can be downloaded by your web site's visitors and viewed offline. The pages of the eBook are in digital format and can accommodate both text and images. Creating an eBook is very beneficial because it can be a marketing tool to promote your web site or blog. Our eBook, which can be downloaded at Free Catholic eBook, was created from an eBook creation software purchased from Andreas Wulf of www.aw-soft.com. The software is not only very user-friendly but very affordable for anyone who wants to market his web log or site.

Steps in creating the eBook

If you decide to purchase the eBook at www.aw-soft.com, these are the steps you need to take to create and publish the eBook.

Create a special folder in your My Documents folder for the pages and images you want to use in the eBook
In creating the internal links of the eBook, use relative rather than absolute linking. This means, you are to use only the file name in the linking instead of including the whole domain name with the www
Do the same with your images files as with your html pages. Only link the file name of your images with their corresponding file extensions.
Make the first page of your eBook, the index.html file. This is very important as this will be the anchor that will collect and collate all the other files and images in the special folder you have created.
After you have finalized all your html and image files, then you can open the eBook creation software and just follow the user-friendly instructions of the program.
There are many options in the creation of the eBook. You can opt to have a password created to access and open the contents of the eBook. You can also designate an expiry date by which the eBook expires and cannot be opened anymore.
Before you decide on this venture of eBook creation, you must first verify whether your web hosting account accommodates files in executable format (.exe) because this is the file that contains your downloadable eBook. If your web hosting account accommodates files in executable format, then all you need to do to publish your eBook is to upload into your web hosting account.
Once your eBook is uploaded and published on your web site, you can promote it and help others know more about your web site or blog so that they can derive much information which they will also need in developing their own blogs and web sites.

eBook Creation and Production

eBook creation and production is already an advanced technological tool for one who wishes to go in the direction of web development. Before embarking on creating an eBook, it is necessary that one acquires a basic knowledge of HTML and the various ways of creating images and graphics. As with any marketing strategy used in search engine optimization, the creation of an eBook as a marketing tool lies also in how much one has learned well good search engine optimization. There are many eBook creation softwares available but the one we use is excellent in its own right and has a very affordable price tag attached to it.

Additional information

If you are interested in web development and have already downloaded our free Catholic eBook, but still have some questions for which you need information about, you can always use our multipurpose email form at Send Email Message for anything that you may want to know more about.