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By Robert W Bly

Filled with income-generating rules approximately making a number of saleable written works, this advisor comprises info for getting to know and writing potent, guidelines and calling upon a number of publishing channels, together with magazines, conventional ebook publishers, self-publishing, and the net. The mechanics in the back of changing into a profitable author and data packager are provided during this source that explores tips to write and promote basic details in a number of codecs, permitting writers to show really good wisdom into money-making books and items.

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Google also comes into the picture. Google plans to digitize and make available online millions of out-of-print books, including many how-to books. But just because a book is out-of-print, it doesn’t mean it’s not still copyrighted. Google plans to compensate authors whose books are digitally downloaded. As an author and information marketer, the rights to my out-of-print books legally belong to me. But Google is an 800-pound gorilla that you and I can’t really afford to fight. So, we will have to live with their looming presence, as well as with Google’s plan to digitize the world’s content and make it available on the Internet.

Why? Because different people have different media preferences. The four basic learning modalities are: reading (books, e-books); listening (audio CDs, downloadable MP3 files, podcasts); watching (DVDs, TV programs, online video); and doing, also called “experiential learning” (workshops, seminars, courses). Most people have a primary learning modality they prefer, one or two secondary modalities they can use without too much difficulty, and one or two they don’t like. For instance, my primary learning modality is reading (books, magazines, newsletters) and my secondary is listening (audio CDs).

But the requirements are somewhat different for how-to nonfiction, where the main virtues are not style but accuracy, practicality, clarity, and organization. Can you explain something or teach a skill in a clear, organized, and entertaining fashion? If you can, then you can succeed as a how-to writer. Are your writing credentials thin? Publishers of how-to nonfiction are more interested in your expertise than your literary flair. And being an expert doesn’t mean knowing more than anybody else in the world about your subject.

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