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Let’s say that your friends and/or relatives are interested in reading your book. You could send the file containing your manuscript to these individuals separately or you could do a mass emailing to all concerned, at the same time. Unfortunately, this means that every time there is an interested reader, you must plop yourself in front of your computer so that you can send them your book. It’s much more convenient and less time consuming, to set up a place where everyone can easily locate your work. Others can then simply type in an address and they instantly have your manuscript. The first step towards this is to set up a website or a blog.
 

 
There are many sites on the internet that can assist you in facilitating this. Some are free while others charge a fee for their services. It might seem strange that a site would allow you to set up your book or other ideas on their site for free but, of course, nothing is truly free. Once your eBook is up and running, you would probably see advertisements along side. Advertisers are always looking for ways to increase their sales. The more your story draws interest, the more likely others are likely to see the ads attached to the website. In other words, the website owners use your eBook to draw attention to their ads. In contrast, when you yourself pay for a website, you have more control over others attaching distractions to your work. By paying a fee, you can also put together a more attractive looking package to showcase your work. In other words, like most things in life, you get what you pay for.

You also have the option of sending your manuscript to a self-publishing company. They in turn would not only set up a website for your eBook but also produce a final copy of your work, which looks a lot more professional. This will undoubtedly incur a fee so understand that the expense depends on your need. Taking this route also means that those interested in reading your book would have to pay a small cost (a few dollars) in order to download this version of the eBook.

And that’s about it. To all those that love the written word, please remember. Words enables you to take flight. The skies may only reach a certain height but the regions that can be attained by your imagination are limitless. Congratulations and good luck to you all.

To see examples of eBooks put out in websites, blogs and by a self-publishing company, check out the following websites below.