This is where you spend some time developing what you want to say and how. Here, you will write the Table of Contents, sketch out each chapter, and put down all your ideas, scenes, and stories. Certainly not the most warming image, but you get the idea. The вЂњvomit draft.вЂќ This is just what it sounds like-youвЂ™re throwing up on the blank page.When publishing an e-book, the first step is, of course, to write it. Yes, you can get published, see your message spread, and make good money using nothing more than a keyboard and your brain. When you publish first (and maybe exclusively) to Amazon, you concentrate your sales in a single place and can climb the best sellers lists faster. You can publish elsewhere, but few places get your book online and ready in a matter of hours. Once you start selling a certain number of copies, it refers your book to others who have never heard of you. AmazonвЂ™s review system is an authority metric (even if someone plans to buy elsewhere).People donвЂ™t Google things with their credit cards out, ready to buy, like they do with Amazon. Amazon is largest paid search engine in the world.ThereвЂ™s a reason guys like Guy Kawasaki and Seth Godin have published exclusively to Amazon. ItвЂ™s much more than an online shopping cart or web store. Why Amazon?ДЇorget what you think you know about Amazon. The stigma of self-publishing is fading away, replaced by countless success stories from first-time authors making a name for themselves. And thereвЂ™s never been a better time to do so. You have everything you need to start sharing your message today-fingers, keyboard, and the Internet.Д®ven if they donвЂ™t consider themselves writers, most people dream of writing a book. If you want to get noticed in the digital age, waiting for someone to choose you is the worst strategy.

You can follow Jeff on Twitter or find out more about him here. He is the author of Wrecked and his forthcoming memoir, The In-Between. While I am gone, I have asked some of my favorite bloggers to stand in for me.

I am on sabbatical for the next few weeks.

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