Coffee Break – 3 Free ebooks and More!!!

I thought I’d change the focus in this week’s Coffee Break from articles to ebooks. Since I’ve been writing recently about turning old blog posts into ebooks, I thought it might be nice to take a look at a few:

The 2nd Edition Encyclopedia of Free Online Advertising, 2007, by Luke W Parker.  At 79 pages, this book is quite long for a free book  – and it is chock full of information written in an easy to read A-Z format.  (hint: putting your information in a sequenced format (A-Z or 1-10) makes it easier for you to write and easier for your readers to absorb.)

This book, Conversations with Millionaires by Mike Litman and Jason Oman is another long one – 250 pages – but as you will see it is a compilation of radio transcripts – a case of total (savvy!) re-use of existing materials!

I’m including this third ebook, An Honest Look at the e-book Business, by Jonni Good, as an example of the length and style of the typical free ebook that you could make from your blog – it’s 14 pages, contains specific how-to information on a popular topic and is written in a conversational tone, similar to blog posts.  It could even have come from existing posts. 

I hope you find these books helpful, for their content, and as examples of ways you could turn your blog into an ebook. 

Laura and I would like to help you buy some books as well. That’s why we’re currently offering a contest to win gift cards from Amazon.com!! Hurry over to enter the businessandblogging contest!!