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I've always been interested in reading and writing, and I've always wanted to write a book on web design, but more specifically, the marketing of websites. Now I have so many ideas of what to write about, but do you think that if I wrote a book it could get published? I'd be happy enough to make it an eBook, but then the problem of people illegally sharing it etc.
Basically I'm asking you if my articles are fluid, and well written enough for the possibility of people wanting to buy a book written by me.
 


Sure, why not...I don't know how hard it would be for you to find a publisher, but there are many things you could do with that amount of material.

Here's a guy who wrote a book and put it online for free while he was looking for a publisher and I think it took him a couple of years to find one...
http://www.hudzilla.org/phpbook/
 
Dave said:
I've always been interested in reading and writing, and I've always wanted to write a book on web design, but more specifically, the marketing of websites. Now I have so many ideas of what to write about, but do you think that if I wrote a book it could get published?
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YES you can !!
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I'd be happy enough to make it an eBook, but then the problem of people illegally sharing it etc.
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insert 1000 aff link here :batman:
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Basically I'm asking you if my articles are fluid, and well written enough for the possibility of people wanting to buy a book written by me.
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sorry.. but i think it's not enough :) if your ebook/book offer more VALUE than other similar niche ebook/book, people don't care about your writing style, they just need the solution for their problem and will glad to pay you infront :D​
 
rento.inc said:

sorry.. but i think it's not enough :) if your ebook/book offer more VALUE than other similar niche ebook/book, people don't care about your writing style, they just need the solution for their problem and will glad to pay you infront :D​
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the value is the easy part :P i'm sure i can help a lot of people, just not sure if i can write well enuff for people to understand etc.
 
straight to point will be enough or you want to write a novel ? :D

i mean.. do you need to explain the history of RSS to people who want to know *what is RSS and how can i use it ?* ;)
 
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Why not try writing a sample chapter and letting people see that, see what type of feedback you get.
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Well, I've already written 5 or so articles (in my sig)...so ppl can see what i'm like at writing.
 
Dave said:
Well, I've already written 5 or so articles (in my sig)...so ppl can see what i'm like at writing.
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Good point well put.
The only thing I can think of which may be beneficial is to include examples of sites you've created using your steps, for example for the 'Making a content site' have a ' here's one I made earlier ', or maybe charting the progress of one of the sites. So you could say you used a free template from this site, or bought some articles from this site etc.

I appreciate that some people aren't so keen on detailing sites which work for them i.e. make them money, for fear of people copying them, so you may not want to includes these examples in the free articles but only in the 'book'.

Just my thoughts
 
With this kind of thing writing ability doesn't really matter, as long as you're getting your point across and it's not sloppy. People just want the information and the knowledge, they don't care about how it's presented (within reason). So yeah, I definitely think you could.

Try writing an e-book. Really low barrier of entry there, you write it, and then throw up a website to promote it, maybe do some PPC marketing.
 
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