Has anyone written a book that is only avaiable online???

You can always do that anytime as long as you have the desire. I have already written two books and published it online but I didn't processed yet the isbn. There's a lot of work in getting published, especially the first book you are going to write. This is because I don't have the right connections. So, if you have connections, like people who can help you out, it would become easier. Go ahead, you can do it.

I've thought about trying to publish online to get some writing credentials, but I don't really want to do it. (I like actual books too much). But I do know there are a lot of e-book publishers, and then if you don't want to bother with them you can always make your own website to publish them. I'm sure you wouldn't be the first to have done this. Just curious, is this book a collection of short stories that all kinda follow the same path like Tom Sawyer?

I have written 2 books, The Heart of The Seekers and Voices From A Deep Heart 2 both available on my site and many others. Its not hard to write a book but marketing and sales is the trick.

Hi Gardynne, you can try publishing in lulu.com
As long as the book is in eformat, you can publish it free of charge. However, you are in charge for the marketing and sales of the books.
If you want to publish in hard copy later on, it's possible, just pay a sum of money to get the ISBN, and decide on the number of copies you want to print. The books will be made available to readers in Amazon and Noble.
Most people publish complete book, I haven't seen anyone publish a chapter per week in lulu

Didn't Steven King do that with one of his books? Not being a King fan, I'm not sure, I just remember thinking "wow, that's so cool".

I have thought about that, but I haven't figured out the logistics of getting paid. Subscription? Also, I like books, so I think I'd want to have hard copies. But there's publishing on demand, like lulu and others, where the books are only printed as they're ordered so you don't have to come up with a lot of money up front. One of the advantages for the author is that he/she gets a larger cut of the money. The disadvantage is that the entire burden of promoting your book is on you.

I would continue to look into this if I were you. Good luck!

There are several web-pages I've found which may help you as well.

http://www.booksurge.com/ (Owned by Amazon.com)
http://www.myfreebookstore.com
http://www.epicauthors.com/
http://www.epilogue.net/support/sign_up/ this is fantasy and science fiction
http://www.tux.org/~milgram/bookland/ (this site is about free bar codes for ISBN)


I hope you find the information on these pages of use.

I have a couple of e-books online but not self-published. One is a novella - City of Victory - published by chillibreeze.com and another -- my first novel 'Circe' a funny feminist fantasy is due to release soon from Mojocastle Press. My advice is to try and find an e-publisher for your book. Self publishing should be your last resort. But they say the stigma attached to self-publishing is not as rampant as before, and in fact, there have been authors who have self-published and then got picked up by print publishers. As for the series, yes even that has been happening with writers who have their own sites. Max Barry from the Internet Writing Workshop I belong to has done this with Machine Man which I believe he has now found a publisher for. Google him and you'll see.

Best of Luck!