What Do You Actually Want From An Ebook?

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I can remember the excitement of buying my first downloadable-book. It was back in the latter 1990′s and though I will not remember the title of the ebook I do recall the seller lived in Georgia, USA and within ten minutes of buying it I was printing it out in rustic Wiltshire in the West of Britain.

Since those early days I must have acquired masses of such books. I have had everything from 300+ page manuals right down to 2 or 3 page “reports”. But the difficulty is that over 1/2 them end up either part or totally unread.

I think that for most folks there are two basic issues with e-books, they don't seem to be easy-to-read on screen and if you print them out this can take time and be expensive on ink.

Regardless of all of the terrible prophecies profits of doom I believe the future for electronic books and info products in general is very good. Nevertheless writers have to understand the prerequisites of their readers. To be honest if a subject requires more than 100 pages to get its message across perhaps a downloadable file is not the best way to provide the info.

eBay is a good example, there are countless hundreds or maybe even thousands of electronic books on the topic varying in price from a few cents up to some costing loads of dollars, The median price for a “How to Earn Income on eBay” type book looks to be around $67 but go to Amazon or Barns and Nobel and you will find print books with much more information for just about $20. So why do we cough up extra for less?

The answer's “immediacy”. We'd like it and we want it now.

And if the reader wants the electronic book now, she also wants the data right away. What they don't want to is to be forced to wade through hundreds of pages to find what they are attempting to find. In other words the perfect ebook should hold the basic facts or methods with as little padding as practical. Ideally a person should be able to read the contents of an ebook at one sitting And in my opinion the ideal length for an e-book is around 30 pages but anywhere between 20 and forty is fine. For most subjects the important points can be included within that page range.

The benefit for the author is that it is far simpler to draft a 40-page book than one with 200 pages. There is also a bigger prospect of the reader actually clicking on your affiliate or other links in your book if she or he really reads it all. If the writer feels that it will take 200 pages to cover the subject why not cut it down to 5 or 6 smaller e-books selling at say $15 each.

The present trend of pile it high sell it inexpensively is driving many folks out of the data market and some might say that is not a bad thing. But there'll always be a market for value for money and simply digestible information products on subjects interesting to the customer. So if you are a writer please cut the padding, just give me the facts, just the facts.

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