While you are creating e-books, it’s important to write a quality e-book. Thin, skimpy e-books aren’t effective – you want something meaty to offer your readers. A truly great e-book is filled with information, with enough bulk to keep your audience satisfied.

Skinny e-books that have little information are often returned, eating away at your profits. On the other hand, an e-book with strong content increases reader satisfaction, which means more profits and fewer refunds. You want to offer a strong, beefy e-book, one that is loaded with value for your clients. So how can you put your PDF e-books on steroids for better performance? Read on, and I’ll show you!

To start, add a table of contents (TOC). This helps your readers to find the information that they want, while adding two or three pages to the total length of your document. Not only is a TOC valuable to your readers, it’s easy to create one – most word processing programs can generate one automatically.

Second, add a list of resources in the back. All of the web sites, blogs and forums you visited to research your ebook should be put in a resources section in the back. You can also put all of the print books that you find helpful as well. Face it. There are tons of resources dealing with the topic of your ebook that you know and your customers don’t. List those and you will provide a valuable service for them.

For your readers, I suggest you include a list of:

- List of books on your topic

- List of magazines on your topic

- Videos online at YouTube and similar sites;

- Web sites;

- User forums and user groups; Blogs (your own or those of others);

For each link, include a short description of the resource to help your readers further. Tell them what information they can find using that link, and how it can help them. This adds more value than a simple list of links, with no rhyme or reason.

Stay tuned for my next article, when I offer three great strategies to bulk up your e-book, increase customer satisfaction, and improve sales. By publishing ebooks with loads of content, you make it an irresistible value.