Over the years, after retirement I have taken many of my experiences, observations, and the knowledge from the various industries I participated in and compiled that information into a series of online articles. I am just trying to give back to a world which is given me so much. Of course one of the challenges I had right away was the fact that I am not a writer, rather I am an entrepreneur and business person. I guarantee you those two types of personalities are not often in the same person, at least not at the levels that I had participated in. Okay so, I'd like to talk about this for second if I might.
Let's say you are truly knowledgeable in your field, you know what you're talking about, and you have put your thoughts and experiences into a series of online articles. Once you have 100 or more of these articles, it might make sense to take those articles and repurpose them into an e-book. What I suggest is that you do is take your articles and make each one of them a subtitle in the e-book, and list them in the table of contents. You should group them together by subcategories, and then create a very nice introduction section, and a section of your e-book at the end explaining more about yourself; the author.
Why do I suggest that you do this? Because in the last year there have been tens of millions of the e-readers sold, not to mention all the iPads. So why not put your articles into a collection, and into a format in which potential readers might enjoy. I can tell you this, I've been to Starbucks each week, and every time I go, there are more and more people who are sitting around reading from their e-readers. Rather than try to fight it, maybe it's time that you acquiesce and took some of that content that you have worked so hard to create and make it available to your future clientele and happy and loyal readers?
Now then, I would not recommend that you just throw together crappy articles, but rather you pick your very best articles, and place them into your collection and then use the proper formatting for your e-book. As long as you haven't written "thousands of articles which are nearly identical with little or no content value," then this should work for you. It's the least you can do to deliver your important knowledge to the world. Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.
Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative eBooks on E-Books. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net/
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