Hello folks! Today I am going to review a fabulous book that I had the opportunity to pre-read for clarity. (ie I got a free copy to read through and evaluate. assume all links are affiliate links.). That book is called How To Build An E-Book. It was written by Aaron Pogue over at Unstressed Syllables.com.
This book was launched a couple of weeks ago and I didn’t put up this post then because I thought there would be so much promotion that mine would get lost in the stream. So I am here today to review this fine book and bring some new life to it. Aaron’s sales page is here:Click here to visit Aaron Pogue.
Hello Aaron. Ok here is a list of things that I noticed while reading your book. They are in no particular order so take them as you will.
First, this book is very well written. It is easy to read and in a very conversational style that flows very quickly. It really goes in depth on how to convert blog posts to a useful ebook. Aaron is a technical writer (as well as novelist) by trade and his attention to detail is fantastic. The book is easy to understand and it really lays out the right way to put your ebook together.
I mainly write fiction but the information Aaron presents can be modified to even make a fiction ebook look good. I actually used some of the techniques to tweak my first fiction ebook: Death With A Vengeance. It is also instrumental in the planning of my non-fiction ebook about my daughters kidney disease and dialysis. The chapter on Outlining brought back horrible memories of both high school and college English classes but gave me a great reminder on how to do it. I haven’t needed to outline anything in years but for this book I am writing it was essential.
Aaron also gets into some simple points of Microsoft Word (or other word processors) and talk about styles for chapter headings and how to bookmark and link in between pages in the ebook. There were several points that I didn’t know about and now use quite often. I have been using Word since the old Wordperfect went belly up and there were several things that I still didn’t know.
This ebook has a really good flow to it. The headers and footers are very clear so you always know where you are. It is littered with practical examples of how to put the concepts into practice, from pictures to links, to info boxes that show what is exclusive content to your ebook and what has been published on your blog.
He even includes a checklist that you can use to follow the concepts exactly as they appear in the book. Most of these things I had thought about but I didn’t know how to put them together in a coherent and cohesive manner. This checklist solved that problem.
At the end, he also discusses how to publish your ebook and get it out to the masses. From formats to publish in to using distributors like e-junkie it is all here. Click here to visit Aaron’s Sales Page!
All in all, this is a great book for learning to make an ebook. You can tell that Aaron really loves his work and is good at it. He has easy descriptions of the hard stuff like outlining (I hate outlining but it must be done!) and publishing.
If you want to publish your own e-book from your blog posts, go get this book. It is well worth the $49.97 that he is charging. He also has the book split into three modules that run $19.99 each if you would rather go that way.
Bottom line: Want to write a successful ebook from your vast collection of blog posts? Get Aaron’s ebook today and get started!
