One reason why eBooks are so effective is that they can utilize additional media to inform and add value to your readers. Screen casts, demonstrations, or even personal introductions can add value to your ebooks. Not all eBook platforms will allow authors to add video. If your are considering adding video to your ebook you should consider a platform that makes that process simple. Below is a demo from My Ebook Master on how adding videos should work.

The advantaged of adding using My Ebook Master to add vidoes to your ebook are that you can use many of the video sites to save bandwidth, and failitate the embedding process. However you still have the options of a more advanced user.

eBooks: Empowering Authors

eBooks are empowering “would-be” authors in ways that traditional publishing could never accomplish.  New methods of publishing and exposing potential readers are allowing individuals to become widely-read authors with no third party intervention.  eBook authoring can also be a strong gateway to eventual paper publishing.

Many “ordinary” people have extraordinary stories or a knowledge of niche subjects.  However, very few of those have the knowledge of how to create a manuscript, solicit publishing houses and play the political game of getting published.

Very few people know exactly the process that books go through in order to be published.  An enormous amount of preparation must be done in order to get your manuscript in front of a publisher, and even if  you are able to do so, there is no guarantee that your work will be selected.

Many potentially successful authors have been halted by the roadblocks of traditional publishing complications.  Ebooks empower the author to create a medium, and have their books on their own online bookstore.  Affiliate program have enabled authors to sell their books through other marketers, similar to a traditional author having their books in multiple bookstores.

Best of all – ebook authors keep 100 percent of the profits of their own books, whereas traditional authors are only able to make anywhere from 2 – 20 % of the profits.  In a sense authors are working to produce goods for the profit of publishing houses, while providing nominal compensation to the author.

Advances in ebook software have developed a more secure medium for authors to create their art.  Readers are now prohibited from a simple copy-and-paste form of piracy.  Authors are now empowered to impose other forms of security that protect their creative livelihood.

Lastly, if an author has successfully created an online readership, soliciting a publishing house is going to be that much more compelling.  If I can tell my potential publisher that I already have sold thousands from my efforts to promote my book at home, I have already demonstrated that I have an interested an audience, which is the key risk in publishing.

Ebook publishing is empowering authors to cut out the middleman, make more profits, simplify business, and get a foot in the door of traditional publishing houses.

Jacob