Wikipedia defines “an e-book (short for electronic book, or EBook), also known as a digital book, is an e-text that forms the digital media equivalent of a conventional printed book, sometimes restricted with a digital rights management system.” In addition to regular text, an eBook may also contain multimedia and hyperlinks to make it more attractive and interactive. The availability of eBook reader in laptops, mobile phones, PDAs and other popular electronic gadgets has made the format very popular. The fanciest thing about eBooks’ these days is that anyone and everyone can write or create his or her own eBook. This small article will help you to learn how to create an eBook in the easiest way. All you need is Microsoft Office and a small freeware software called DoPdf. Use Google to search for the software and download it. Since it’s a freeware, you don’t have to spend a single penny to get the software. After downloading the software, install it. Installation will not take more than a minute and is very simple. Just press next >> next >> next and you are ready.
Now the most time consuming and interesting part of creating your eBook. Before you may proceed, you must be having the content that you want to put in the eBook. By content I mean, the text or data or media that will be published in the book.
Some tips on writing an eBook:
Make the eBook attractive. Use colors and different fonts to beautify it. But DON’T OVER DO. Don’t use more than 3 colors, use them to make a theme and stick to it.
Give a good background to your eBook.
Use proper header and footer.
Make a unique and attractive cover complete with author name and book title. A short description never harms anyone.
Now after the content is ready and formatting is set to suit your taste and style, the main thing starts. Its not as difficult as it sounds and won’t take more than 10 seconds.
Press Ctrl+P to open the ‘Print Dialog Box’. In the dialog box, select the printer as doPdf.
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