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New E-book Project – and You’re Invited To Play!

July 19, 2010 · 7 comments

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A couple of days ago, I was just thinking about domain names (because I get kind of cranky if I can’t buy a new domain every month or two!) and I don’t know how this idea came into my head but I started thinking about a site that has short, easy to read e-books at a really reasonable fee.

I know that one of the reasons I usually only get free e-books is because the ones you pay for are much longer and I seriously don’t have the attention span to sit at the computer and read for long and I don’t have an e-reader.  But I would pay a couple of dollars for a short e-book that had targeted info that I’d really like to know about.  Or would make me laugh.  Or was just plain fun.  It’s a couple bucks.  It would be worth it to me.

And I thought to myself, “Self, you could write short e-books that would be inexpensive and fun…”

But then myself reminded me, “Me, you suck at marketing your own work.  You need to involve others.”

And I realized that I was right.

But what if there were dozens of writers – maybe even dozens of dozens of writers – that just wanted to have a little fun writing what they already know about for residual income and PROMOTING the site?

What if those writers got to keep 100% of the money that they earned from their e-books by putting up their own paypal button?

What if all those writers were having so much fun that they kept writing their little e-books and promoting them?

And the idea kept building…and building…and building…until I finally went and bought the domain for it.

I’m not going to tell you what the name of the domain is but let me just tell you that they e-books will all have a theme – “22 Ways to________” (and if you have more than 22 ways, expand it to 44 ways and you’ve got a sequel).  And I’m inviting anyone that can write to take part.

When I formally start taking authors in I’ll ask only a few things:

  • Have an outline of those 22 ways ready so I know you’re serious.
  • Have your own PayPal account and know how to create the code to put it into a WordPress post
  • Be on Twitter and/or Facebook and other social media marketing sites and be ready to do your own promotions

And I think that is it.

I’ve been putting out some feelers already and found that there is definitely some interest so I’m working on getting the site ready.  So start thinking about your e-book.  Heck, start writing your e-book!  The site should be ready in a week or two!

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Lisbeth Tanz July 20, 2010 at 4:32 am

Love the idea, Danielle! And I have some ideas already, so count me in! :)
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Danielle
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July 20, 2010 at 5:26 am

I’d love to have you involved in this Lisbeth! I think this is going to be fun!

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Sharon Hurley Hall
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July 20, 2010 at 6:54 pm

Oooh! This sounds great. I’m interested.
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Su-sieee! Mac July 24, 2010 at 6:35 pm

You’ve got my attention, Danielle. I was thinking about e-books last night, in fact.
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Danielle
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July 24, 2010 at 9:08 pm

Awesome Sharon. I’m actually thinking of putting together some kind of e-book challenge thing or something for those that don’t know where to start.
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Holly Jennings July 26, 2010 at 1:11 am

Hi Danielle,

Thanks for the follow on Twitter. Checking our your blog- just beginning to try and network with other freelancers. I would definitely consider joining an e-book challenge- I could use the motivation :) Great blog- although have you heard of Hootsuite? (Just reading your later comments. LOL)

Holly

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Danielle
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July 26, 2010 at 1:24 am

Hi Holly,
Thanks for stopping by. :) I am working on putting together a challenge for September so new e-book writers will have some structure to follow. So watch for that! If all goes well, I’ll have a couple of experienced e-book writers on board to advise.

And I actually wrote about Hootsuite awhile back. It is a God-send to me!

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