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If you are an online article author perhaps someone in your family has asked what you are doing when you spend all that time writing articles? I have recently been telling them that I am writing articles for mass distribution. Then the next obvious question they ask is; How are these articles being distributed?

Well simple I tell them; I submit the articles to an online article submission website and these send them out using RSS or real simple syndication and then websites pick them up for content, sometimes print medium and often Ezines too. What is an Ezine they ask? Simple I tell them it is an online newsletter or electronic magazine, which is usually sent out via email to thousands of email subscribers. Oh; they usually say.

Once my articles are posted in the online article submission site the Ezine Publishers capture it that way. Which puts the article into the pipeline so to speak; so they can EZINE IT! Whenever I explain this people look at me funny and then have that dumb puppy look? I explain the Ezining it, well, one could say would then be an action verb.

Because the act of putting your articles into distribution for Ezine Publishers to pick it up could be called Ezining It! In other words this is what I call the posting of an article for the sole purpose of getting Ezines to distribute it? There is no word for that action, so I simply made one up; Ezining it or Ezine It a verb. Kind of like Faxing It or Zerox it or FedEx it. Generally after I explain this to them, they want to start writing more articles also. Consider this in 2006.

Lance Winslow - Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; www.WorldThinkTank.net/wttbbs/

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Is it possible for an online article author to become an e-book author? Yes, in fact did he is and many online article authors actually got their start this way. If you are an online article author you could become an e-book author is well and you can even make money with your writing. In fact the royalty payouts for e-books are generally 50% as opposed to paperback or hardback books, which pay out much smaller royalty percentages.

One good thing about going from online article author to e-book author is that you can write online articles to promote your e-book. The average e-book is about 40 or 50 pages at about 250 words per page and 23 lines of text. That is not very much for an online article author with a hundred articles.

But why stop with e-books? The average novel has about 38 lines per page and about 400 to 450 pages and a prolific online article author can easily put out a novel in a couple of months and certainly less than six. Most nonfiction books are 275 to 300 pages and this is not very significant for a prolific online article author either.

Perhaps you write articles about business or marketing; well then you are in luck because the average marketing book in the business book section of a bookstore is about 125 to 150 pages and this should be very simple for you. Perhaps you should consider a smooth transition into book writing in 2006.

Lance Winslow - Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; www.WorldThinkTank.net/wttbbs/

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