Eleven years ago, I thought self-publishing ebooks on the Internet would take off in 2 years. Boy was I wrong!
It took almost 10 years for ebooks to take off.
Sure some writers made money writing ebooks but usually those ebooks were either “how to” ebooks or ebooks that told other writers how to market.
Not until major players (i.e., Sony, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Apple, etc.) decided to enter the publishing industry with their eReaders, did things start to really improve for writers. For two years now (really only the last six months once iPad entered the market), I’ve enjoyed seeing the traditional publishers sweat!
I’ve gleefully watched their hardback and paperback sales decrease. But more than that, I loved reading about mid-list Authors who jumped ship and decided to self-publish.
Why?
If you’ve been waiting to be discovered by a publishing house, wake up!
Now is the perfect time to self-publish. Amazon’s Kindle is making it extremely EZ for you to make a good income from your writing.
And it’s so simple even a fifth grader could format for the Kindle…because HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) is considered the best format for eReaders like Kindle, Sony and the Nook.
Yes, it’s the same language that web pages use.
Makes sense because your readers can adjust the text from small to large in a Kindle and HTML does this EZ-ily.
Now there is nothing complicated about the HTML you’ll be writing in your text editor. The code is very basic and looks like what’s bolded in the following example:
