| Medical assistants are so important in today's | | | | For example, someone I know wants to publish a |
| society because we need as many as we can to | | | | cookery book as an ebook. I think that would |
| keep the offices of physicians, chiropractors, and | | | | work really well. So how about picking some skill |
| many other different types of health practitioners | | | | or talent you have - anything from car repairs to |
| running smoothly. The jobs of medical assistants | | | | gardening to DIY to dressmaking, to bookkeeping |
| differ depending on the office, location, and size of | | | | or badminton - and turning it into a 'how to' |
| the practice and its specialty. In a smaller office, | | | | ebook? |
| they do many different types of tasks, such as | | | | Writing an ebook isn't any more difficult than an |
| handling clinical duties and reporting things directly | | | | ordinary book. Dividing it up into chapters will |
| to a physician or any other health practitioner. | | | | make it easier to create as well as easier to read. |
| These tasks performed by these people are very | | | | Your ebooks can be as long or as short as you |
| important to keeping even a small office running | | | | like. I've seen ebooks as short as 20 pages. |
| well. In a larger office, medical assistants specialize | | | | Although about 150 is a maximum.... as they get a |
| in specific areas under supervision of department | | | | bit difficult to handle after that. |
| administrators. Without the help of these people, | | | | Don't worry about making a mistake when you |
| doctors and physicians would have to take so | | | | write. With an ebook, if you make mistakes, you |
| much time away from their patients to keep their | | | | can easily correct them later at no cost. |
| medical records organized, fill out insurance forms, | | | | And here's another great thing about publishing |
| answer telephones, etc. Medical assistants do all | | | | ebooks: You can easily and cheaply add |
| these extra tasks for them so they can take | | | | illustrations. In fact you SHOULD. A picture paints |
| care of as many patients as possible. | | | | a thousand words as they say, so they will save |
| Along with the satisfaction of helping doctors and | | | | you work. They will help explain things better for |
| physicians take care of their patients as best as | | | | your reader and add great value to your book |
| possible, the satisfaction also comes with the fact | | | | too. |
| that employment for the medical field is growing | | | | If you can, add some pics of your own digital |
| much faster than expected, ranking this | | | | camera. Or buy some high quality professional |
| occupation as one of the fastest growing | | | | ones from a digital photo library like iStockphoto. |
| opportunities in the decade. Aside from a huge | | | | It doesn't cost much. You can also add charts, |
| array of job opportunities and high employment | | | | diagrams, graphs, drawings and tables using the |
| rate, an associate degree in this field takes about | | | | tools you can find in any word processing |
| 1-2 years to complete, and you'll be well on your | | | | software like MS Word. |
| way to a rewarding career.Ebooks have been | | | | But try not to go too far over the top with your |
| around for a few years now. But I think there is | | | | design. Keep it simple and clear, just like a |
| going to be massive scope to make money from | | | | professionally published book. Bear in mind that |
| them in the future. Mobile devices on which you | | | | gaudy colours, backgrounds and complicated |
| can read ebooks - like Amazon's Kindle and the | | | | graphics aren't always easy to read on a |
| iPad - are only just coming into their own. But I'm | | | | computer screen. |
| sure they're going to be big in future. | | | | Once your ebook is finished all you need to do is |
| Who knows, maybe within a few years, we'll all | | | | put into an ebook readable format. |
| be buying and reading our books as ebooks? | | | | Converting it into an Adobe PDF file is usually the |
| Ebooks offer a great opportunity to publish and | | | | best option. Most people already have the Adobe |
| sell your own writing easily and cheaply too. Just | | | | Reader software on their computers. So most |
| think, before ebooks came along writing and | | | | people will be able to buy, download and open the |
| publishing a book was pretty difficult and | | | | files easily. (If you don't already have the |
| expensive. You had to write your book. Pay out | | | | software to convert your book to Adobe Reader |
| lots of money to get it printed. And find space to | | | | format on your PC there are some websites |
| store it. Then if your printed book didn't sell you | | | | which will do this for you for free. Try this one - |
| were stuck with a lot of expensive waste paper! | | | | Do PDF at ). |
| Ebooks have solved all those problems almost | | | | By the way, when you write and publish an |
| overnight. You can just try an idea for next to | | | | ebook you don't need to officially register it - |
| nothing. If it doesn't sell you've not lost much. But | | | | unlike with a printed book. Also, it automatically |
| if it does sell.... well the profit margins can be | | | | becomes your copyright - you don't need to |
| massive. Because there's no paper, print and | | | | register copyright in any way. (But I'd recommend |
| shipping to pay for. | | | | you set the security settings up on the PDF to |
| So first you need an idea for your ebook. | | | | make it more difficult for anyone to copy.) |
| For starters, I wouldn't recommend you publish | | | | All you need to do next is market and sell your |
| fiction as an ebook. There's not much money in | | | | ebook. There are lots of different methods you |
| that.... as people can buy paperback fiction for a | | | | can use. But unfortunately there isn't really enough |
| fiver or so. | | | | space to cover all of them today. So I'll look at |
| Ideally, you should choose a fairly specialist | | | | how you can turn your ebook into money in |
| non-fiction subject. Offer high quality information | | | | another article. |
| that people will be willing to pay a good price for. | | | | |