Publish Now!

Publish Now!

An opinionated guide to publishing an ebook

About the Book

It has never been easier to publish an book, but what keeps most people back from putting their ideas into concrete form is the percieved difficulty of the process. It was the same for me as well, until I got myself to explore what does it really take. Spoiler alert: it's much more straightforward than you think.

I'm writing this book to make the process completely transparent, and share the lessons I have learned, from start to finish (and a bit beyond).

Some of the topics I'mplanning to cover:

  • What to write about?
  • Lean publishing to increase your chances of success
  • Writing tools
  • Making a good-looking book
  • Publishing and distribution
  • Basic ebook marketing
  • Advanced topics of the geeky kind

.... and other practical things that come up in the process

Here's a toast for all future books, yours included, that we will be able to read!

{ Cover image is Light Bulb by p_a_h }

About the Author

Gergely Imreh
Gergely Imreh

Physicist, hacker. Grown up in Hungary, got some more education in England, and now living in Taiwan for the last couple of years.

Co-founder of Taipei Hackerspace, trying to further education, technology, and communities here. Blogging about all of these at Clickedyclick.

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