Preface

This web­site is the book. And this book is the web­site. Let’s call it a web­book. This is not the first web­book, and it cer­tain­ly won’t be the last. Yet at the time of this writ­ing there are not very many web­books. For that rea­son, you are already some­thing of a pio­neer just by read­ing this book.

The future of elec­tron­ic books is the inclu­sion of diverse media, and when you talk about diverse media, a web­book makes a lot of sense. It’s appro­pri­ate to take advan­tage of the web­book for­mat, which enables the incor­po­ra­tion of unre­strict­ed media.

Sta­tis­tics show that 70% of the peo­ple who read dig­i­tal books read them on a smart phone. Thus, many web­sites are now respon­sive, which means that the com­po­nents of the web­page will auto­mat­i­cal­ly be rearranged to be eas­i­ly read on a tablet or smart phone. Thus, read­ing a web­book on smart phones and tablets is almost iden­ti­cal to read­ing an ebook.

Then too, a web­book frees you from the restraints of sell­ing your book via the online book­stores and from the cost too; the rev­enue is all yours.

Con­se­quent­ly, as a read­er of this web­book, even at this late date in the devel­op­ment of the web, you are at the fore­front of the evolv­ing web tech­nol­o­gy. You will learn how to cre­ate an effec­tive book, incor­po­rate diverse media, and gain some ideas about mak­ing mon­ey (mon­e­tiz­ing your book).

Enjoy this book, and good luck in pub­lish­ing your webbook.

Joseph T. Sinclair
Sep­tem­ber 2018