Ebooks are great. I know that most people, including myself, love the look and feel and smell of paper books, but ebooks are easier to carry around and definitely easier to produce.

The very first product I produced for sale was an ebook. There was a free version to encourage people to sign up to my newsletter, and a premium version that sold for a few pounds and contained more information. That was back in the year 2000. Today it’s much easier to publish “real” books, but it’s still a hassle: dealing with cover measurements, and storage and distribution, unless you use print-on-demand. And making it available free of charge and immediately poses a challenge.

If you’re a teacher, and especially if you’re a head of department, ebooks are a great way of making available key information. For example, although your curriculum should be on the school’s website (it’s a legal requirement in the England and Wales, and good practice anyway), it would still be a good idea to make the information available in the form of a downloadable PDF.

Same goes for documents you want to distribute to students: the course syllabus, course requirements, resources, book lists, revision guides, manuals, and so on.

If you work for a company, I’ve provided good reasons for business to make ebooks available. That article also includes information about different kinds of ebooks, and how to make them, so teachers too should find it helpful.

Here’s the link again:

Why your business needs an ebook