Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format) files are everywhere these days. It’s a very popular and well-known standard document format, which I often see in google’s search results. So, it’s no surpise google now provides a ‘quick view’ link in their search results to save you time when viewing PDFs. Now you don’t have to wait for Adobe software to load up. Adam Ostrow takes a look in death to PDF. I didn’t know it’s already available in gmail.
In case you didn’t know it, most ebooks are created as an Adobe PDF. This makes it a universal standard as Adobe’s PDF reader is free. Sadly, the ‘official’ Adobe program for creating a PDF document is not. I think it’s expensive. But PDF is available on almost every platform and is the defacto standard. But there are alternative free and low cost PDF software programs you can use. But what would you use it for? As a business, you can publish white papers, special reports, ebooks, tutorials, guides, case studies, data sheets, brochures, scope of works, you name it.
So, let’s suppose you are a webmaster and you want to write a guide on your expertise or knowledge to help promote your business or establish your brand. How is it done? I always think it’s best to learn anything from someone who’s already done it. Lisa Irby has published ‘the perfect site guide’ and she shows you how she did it in her video; creating an ebook with Adobe Acrobat.
Okay, you’ve written a short promotional ebook and published it. You are now in print! But what if you want to take it a step further and sell it. What kind of ebook must you create to make your visitors want to buy it? There is a lot of competition, but Sonia Simone thinks many of the competing products are poor and there are plenty of buyers who need to solve their most pressing problems. She has valuable advice for all budding writers in how to write an ebook that sells in 2009.
For free or for sale, writing and publishing an ebook has many benefits for you.
