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Publishing
Ebooks
Series, Part 4: Why Upload.com Is The Best
Website For Publishing Ebooks Free Of Charge
Copyright
© by John
Baril
The last few
articles in this series have
covered how to make an e-book and how to set it up so that it will help
you
build your list. This final article will look at the best e-book
website for
publishing ebooks free of charge.
The best e-book
website to upload your e-books
to is called upload.com.
Not only will
your
e-book be published on upload.com, but it will also be listed
on download.cnet.com
and several other high-traffic websites where people go to search for
and
download e-books and other digital products. Upload.com features
e-books from
over 27,000 publishers and from 132 different countries. Around 2.5
million
downloads from the database occur each day.
Getting
your own share of this pie is easy as
you can set up a free account on upload.com.
Here's what you
do to get started.
After you get
signed up and have confirmed your
new account, you will need to create a developer account. Simply click
"My
Account" and fill in the form to do this. Once your application has
been
approved by upload.com you will be able to publish your e-books.
Follow these
steps for publishing ebooks on
upload.com:
1. Choose the
platform you wish to use. Choose
"Windows" so that the system will produce an executable file of the
e-book when you upload it.
2. Enter the
title of your e-book. Use some good
keyword phrases for your e-book title and use your actual book title
when
naming the file.
3. Enter the
"version" of your e-book.
You can simply enter "1" or "1.0."
4. Specify a
release date.
5. Write a
brief description consisting of no
more than 100 characters.
6. Write a full
product description. Include
some key quotes to get the attention of the reader.
7. Select the
"educational software"
category and the "eBooks" subcategory.
8. Include a
product
information URL. This page should be a description of your e-book in
detail, so
you will need to create a description page on your website or bog.
9.
Enter the product download URL. This is the
URL of the e-book itself, which should be uploaded to your website. If
you have
uploaded a locked version of your e-book made by Boomerang List
Builder, it
will be an .exe file.
10. Input your
e-book file size. Right-click on
the e-book on your hard-drive, check properties and it will tell you
the file
size which you can then enter into the file size field.
11. Skip the
"additional requirements"
field, and in the next section, check all the boxes against the Windows
platforms.
12. Enter your
executable file name and your
"sample registration code" number if you have locked the product,
which, if you have read my complete series of e-book publishing
articles, you
will probably want to do.
13. You must
choose a license type. Choose
"free" to give away the product, and you can skip the other parts of
this section.
14. Upload a
screenshot of your e-book if you
have one.
15. Agree to
the Terms of Service and click
"SAVE."
16. Choose your
listing package. If you don't
mind waiting for 5 days to have your e-book featured, choose the "Free
Listing Package" option and click "PROCEED" and then
"CHECKOUT".
Once your
e-book is approved and featured it
will stay on upload.com forever. If you used proper keywords in the
title of
your e-book, you should start seeing a steady flow of new subscribers
to your
mailing newsletter list. More than likely you’ll want to do
this on a regular
basis once you see how effective publishing e-books can be.
I
wish you the best of success,
John Baril
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