eBooks The $mart Way

A Complete Guide to Publishing, Marketing, and Automating a Killer eBook.

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40 Comments (Click Here to Leave a Comment Below)

Reply TD HAWK on January 5th, 2010 at 5:24 am
Good, smart move offering printer friendly black and white version.

Reply Karen on January 5th, 2010 at 3:12 pm

Pat,

Just finished reading the ebook. I quite like the 3 column design of it, as that’s pretty unusual from the many ebooks that I’ve bought and read. You have some amazing resources listed in the book, as well. I love the motivation (and inspirational) nuggets sprinkled throughout the ebook.

This is definitely one ebook that I will be referring to again and again when I make (and sell) my first ebook.

Thank you so much for the free ebook. It certainly is the “$mart Way” to creating an ebook.

Karen

Reply John Watkis on January 5th, 2010 at 9:58 pm

Pat,

Thank you for writing this ebook and giving it away. It has excellent content I know I can use. You’ve done more than just inspire me to finish what I’ve started … you’ve given me more tools to work with.

Keep up the excellent work!

John

Reply Tiffany on January 6th, 2010 at 8:51 am

I just finished reading through your new ebook and it rocks! Having looked at a LOT of internet marketing related material, I can honestly tell you that the information you included and the visual look of the ebook provided more value and looked more professional than material I have paid for from some of the “big name” marketers. Thanks!

Reply JadeDragon on January 8th, 2010 at 1:07 am

Very very very helpful Pat. Thanks so much. Your hype about this ebook got me thinking seriously about an ebook in my niche of furnished rentals. I’ve started writing and will now follow all your steps. Hope you can review the finished product Pat.

Reply Dave - The Minimalist Path on January 12th, 2010 at 12:40 am

I am extremely excited about attacking the launch of my eBook in the next month with your suggestions in your eBook. I really hope to get some great feedback and maybe a little side money from this big launch I will be doing.

Thanks for all the free information!

David Damron
The Minimalist Path & LifeExcursion

Reply miles on January 19th, 2010 at 9:20 am

Pat,

i have to say, you have the gift to take something complicated and making it simple. This ebook is the best of it’s kind.

Thank you for giving something of such high value for free.

Miles Fitzgerald
Inspire the young and ambitious

Reply kevin on January 21st, 2010 at 9:51 pm

Pat,

Just finished your e-book… it’s the bees knees (very good). I sell printed guides (that include cds) and use Vervante to both print the book, press the cds and ship to customers.

For my next site I’m going strictly digital and I’m excited to see the differences.

Here’s a link to a similar button that might interest you… it’s like the one you use but on steroids.

http://tinyurl.com/ya5szbl

Quick question– I use straight HTML/CSS for my sites but want to start using WordPress. I’ve heard that you can’t add an “add to cart” Pay Pal button on a WP blog because of Javascript security issues. Are you doing anything special to add the PP button?

Thanks for the response and the e-book.

Kevin

Reply kevin on January 21st, 2010 at 9:58 pm
Forgot to mention that you can also add video, audio, and flash files to a PDF document…. just watch those file sizes.
Reply Navinderan Kesiven on January 22nd, 2010 at 10:11 am
Thanks for sharing your knowledge

Reply Pam on January 23rd, 2010 at 8:11 am

Hi Pat,
Well, first let me say that I really enjoyed your ebook. If that’s FREE, what do you have that I can BUY?? Lot’s of good ideas, and more importantly, very inspiring. I actually feel like I can do this now!

I do have one complaint, however. Because I read a lot of PDFs, I purchased a Kindle. I can email the pdf to my Kindle and read it much more comfortably than I can on my iPhone or on my computer. Because of the way you’ve got your book formatted it doesn’t translate well to the Kindle. I ended up having to read it from my iPhone which would have been very difficult had your book been much longer. Your format is perfect for someone who is going to print it out, but not so good for all the other methods for reading available these days. It was very thoughtful of you to provide the B&W pdf, perhaps you could also provide a straight text pdf?

Anyway, I think you do great work! Thank you!

Reply Liane on January 25th, 2010 at 3:44 am
Thanks for this Pat! Just the information I’ve been racking the web for days

Reply Busey on January 25th, 2010 at 7:14 am

Congrats Pat on writing the most thorough e-book on writing, selling, marketing and profiting from an E-book I have ever come across…..

Reply Mike (Beatle) Wanner on January 28th, 2010 at 12:22 am

This is really good, fresh perspective on building a small business on selling ebooks, knowledge and your expertise.

Man, I am getting lot of questions from my own list where i sent out your interview with Darren Rowse at Pro Blogger and they were wondering if you could put together a timeline post on when you built the eBook/product and other website and things you did to promote it and then fill in the gaps with where the sales picked up.

Man, with a new baby how did you find the time to do this? That’s impressive.

I live in Orange, CA but visit my parents home in Scripps Ranch. Would love to buy you a coffee sometime to chat.

I talk with Chris McCombs and Andy Jenkins and we should meet up.

Mike

Reply Bill Hutchison on January 28th, 2010 at 12:54 am

Thanks for writing this and making it available. I’m planning to listen to your interview with Darren tomorrow in the car, and hoping to read the book soon.

Reply Stephen (InventionAddict) on January 31st, 2010 at 7:15 am

I heard about you from ProBlogger, way to go.

I went in the archives to the Oct ’08 post. I really like what you say about designing your lifestyle. I’ve had that thought in mind but now I have clarity.

Tim Feris was an inspiration to me to get into inventing.

Thanks so much for the free eBook.

Regards,

Stephen
http://www.inventionaddict.com/ (blog)
http://www.inspiration2innovation.com/ (my company)

Reply Steven | The Emotion Machine on February 2nd, 2010 at 4:43 pm

Awesome!!! I have been looking to put together an ebook ever since I first started my blog last year and this looks to be a great resource, thanks!

Reply Bronson on February 3rd, 2010 at 5:32 pm

Based on your blog content and the comments here I’m looking forward to tucking into this eBook. 2010 is a breakout year for me and this information will definitely be of use.

Reply Sherry on February 12th, 2010 at 12:36 am
Many thanks! I can’t wait for the audio edition. …nothing like reviewing info during long drives.

Reply Eddy on February 12th, 2010 at 4:15 am

Hi Pat,
I recently received your eBook (eBooks the smart way). Honestly, it came at the right time when i was converting my print copy to an eBook. The information you provided was insightful. Am almost through with it and if you don’t mind i will email you to check it out.
Thanks man! Keep up the good work.

Reply Elsie on February 17th, 2010 at 2:51 pm

Hi Pat

I just went through your e-book after downloading it. Publishing my own e-books is something that I wanted to do for a long time and your book has cleared up quite a few things I was wondering about.

I have two e-books ready for sale, but now I am glad that I had some issues that prevented me from actually putting them up on my site. I will do some editing by following some of the things you mentioned and then start creating a buzz about them after I fixed the other issue with the autoresponder that I had to remove from my blog a few weeks ago.

I find it particularly interesting that your confirmation and download pages redirect back to your site again and not to a stand alone page as well as providing the people who downloaded the e-book with the opportunity to leave comments. Smart thinking and promoting of your site again!

Mind if I borrow this idea from you!

BTW, this is my first time on your site and I already found some good information. Thank you for sharing in such a clear and informative way.

Reply Kevin Tan on February 20th, 2010 at 2:21 am

Hey Pat. Thanks for sharing your wisdom.

I’ve just copied the eBook to my iPhone, gonna grab a coffee and read.

It’ll be a great resource for me.

Thanks.

Reply Devin on March 6th, 2010 at 12:12 am

Hey Pat,

Awesome resource, thanks man! The part about the mind maps really made everything click for me.

Once you have the outline, the eBook just kind of writes itself.

I’m launching an eBook/course soon about how to make money designing websites, and this info has been priceless.

Keep up the good work!

-Devin

Reply Alecia on March 9th, 2010 at 11:16 am

Hi Pat,

Thank you so much for this free eBook. I have an idea for an eBook that has the potential to create a large income. I belong to a message board where there are over 100,000 members. There is a strong interest in this niche and I found that there are few resources. I could start a blog to get some buzz going as well as create some buzz on the forum. Your eBook has given me some great ideas on how to execute this idea.

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Reply Jaime on March 25th, 2010 at 5:22 pm

Hi I was referred to your site by Shawn at NinjaBlogSetup.com and am really impressed with your information you provided in your ebook. I am finishing up a couple of ebooks right now and I am so happy to have read this. Now I can go back and revamp a couple of things…Thanks Soooo Much for all of the great information MzJme

Reply Real Blogging Advice on April 3rd, 2010 at 2:03 am

WOW! It was amazing… This is my first day of knowing you in the internet when I subscribe to Darren Rowse’s Problogger blog.

You are really awesome… I want to learn more from you PAT.

Reply Bob Brown on April 5th, 2010 at 10:23 pm

Hi Pat, I just downloaded your eBook. It has got to be one ot the best eBooks that I have seen. The layout and design is fantastic the only thing better is the content!! You did a great job putting this information together!! Did you do the layout and design yourself? If so what program did you use to put it together??
I have just started working on my own eBook and this will help out a ton.
Thanks for the quality material.

Reply Josh on April 18th, 2010 at 3:49 pm

I plan on releasing my own ebook in the next week and I appreciate the advice you offered in your writing. Thanks!

I liked the landscape format but I found the three columns to be too much information to process at once. I liked it better when you mixed a three-column page with a couple 2-column designs.

Reply Angela DiGiovanni on April 22nd, 2010 at 9:20 pm
Really? You gave this away for free? Thanks a million.

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Reply Kym Mulcahy on May 18th, 2010 at 8:27 pm

Pat, thank you for your wonderful guide. Not only is it jam packed it with great information, but it also so refreshing to read. Your enthusiasm and passion for helping people just jumps through the pages. Thank you for your inspiration.

Reply Deneil Merritt on May 28th, 2010 at 8:43 pm

Pat, thank you so much for putting this guide together. Man, there is so much I learn from it. I already have an idea for my ebook. I will follow your ebook when going through the process. Thanks again.

Reply Dago Cabral on June 8th, 2010 at 6:31 am

Pat,
I want to congragulate you on such a good book. It’s amazing the amount of information is on the web and that it is mostly junk, especially when you have to pay for it. It’s great to find a site that is not filled up with sales letters and bogus hype and offering a magic bullet. I will certainly keep up with your blog and take action with what I’ve learned from your ebook.

Much Success,

Dago

Reply Fernando on June 18th, 2010 at 1:00 pm

Pat,
I can’t wait for the audio version. I’m a graphic designer so being able to listen while I work will be a great way to review everything. Thanks again!
Fernando

Reply Nile Cruises on June 27th, 2010 at 4:07 am

Hi Pat, thanks for creating such a great resources AND giving it away for FREE. I struggled to create our Nile Cruise Guide about 3 years ago and know that if I had had access to your eBook I would have saved so much time. The section on shopping carts and eJunkie are invaluable in themselves. Great job.

Reply stephanie on August 4th, 2010 at 11:10 pm

I just watched the video for the instant article factory and was blown away by this tool. Its a must have for me. I need this because I suck at writing articles. I have so much to say but it take me so much time to put in place. I have incomplete blogs and a website that I haven’t finished because of this. I have my twitter account (chloeprecious) that thank goodness I don’t need an article for that or else that would be on hold also. I’m new at this so I know I have a long way to go. As for you I think your content is the most helpful I’ve read in long time. Keep up the good work!