Have you ever created your own ebook?

@hestylim (1210)
Indonesia
June 25, 2012 2:23pm CST
Hi mylotters, Have any of mylotters created your very own ebook? I am wondering, if publishing a book needs ISBN, does Ebook need one? What does the contain of ebook besides the story itself? Is the contain just the same with book? Thx
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@morgandrake (2136)
• United States
25 Jun 12
I recently started to do ebooks through Smashwords. Besides the story(ies) or article(s), you need to include the typical front material of copyright notices, etc. and the back material of who you are and where the readers can find more of your work. The ISBN is necessary if you want your ebook to be carried by certain booksellers. Because I am using Smashwords for my ebooks, I have just been using the free ISBN that Smashwords provides. Remember that if you do both a print and ebook version, they need to have different ISBNs.
@hestylim (1210)
• Indonesia
26 Jun 12
Thank you for the info. It is nice to hear that smashwords provide ISBN for every ebook published there. Btw, where do I get material of copyright notices??
• India
18 Jul 12
I am very much interested in publishing my own ebook. Today itself i published my first ebook and i am very much happy with it. One of my friend told me about a site called smashwords, where as we can easily publish our ebooks without more efforts. We must write our article in word as a document and insert the necessary pictures and links with it. We must write our article in a good English with proper spelling and grammar based on our country dialect. ISBN code is important to publish our ebook and the site smashwords have the option of creating free or premium ISBN code, we can generate our free ISBN code and publish our ebook with it. We must read out the faq, terms and guidelines of this site to know more information about publishing ebooks. We must provide our real content and give the copy right details with our articles. Writing our own ebook is a cool experience, we can collect some of our good articles within the same concept and create an ebook with it. We can earn a good income when some one download our ebook. Setting price is our own option and we can set the correct price based on the quality and information of our ebook. I created my first ebook for solving the paypal issues.
@hestylim (1210)
• Indonesia
23 Jul 12
WOW! It is nice to hear that you finally publish your ebook... Anyway, when you publish your ebook at smashwords, how about the cover?
@hestylim (1210)
• Indonesia
26 Jul 12
Ohh, I never heard designing cover using powerpoint, maybe I will take a look at that program again and try creating my cover later.. :) Thx for the info!
• India
23 Jul 12
i think i published it around a week before, i designed the cover using powerpoint, you can see my ebook in mylot profile