Right now, I’m experimenting with writing long chapters, and constantly updating my book as I expand content like expanding a long form of a story to slow down changing of these scenes, just like a movie what you watch in a movie theater. However; I’m very careful when writing extremely long books for my readers to read like being in a theater. Although; publishing via Draft2Digital isn’t just easy, it’s also suitable for me to choose a vendor of choice.
However; I’m going to cover long ebooks what authors write, along with this answer to this question.
What’s The Point About Long Books?
Long books can warp you into a world like a movie. And long books what authors publish and take for granted has entertained over millions of people around the world. For some of us; these books entertain us, or educate us,–or enable us to study new cultures!
Although; long ebooks are useful for publishing to Scribd, and other subscription-based services. However; long books has been enabling authors to soak in more readers overtime.
If you read books like normal, and you often write your own, it’s like filling libraries with new titles for anyone to choose!
What’s the point about long chapters?
Long chapters in your book is key to slow down your story, smoothing it out… reducing all of the choppy scenes, and unnecessary speed for people to finish your book. However; long chapters can be useful if you want to add something entertaining to it, like action, fights, driving, flying, riding animals, riding characters, diving underwater, etc. However; these chapters are useful to divide your book. Your chapters in your book is like a fade to black on some movies to divide scenes.
If you have a long book that is long enough for your readers to enjoy your content
Be aware… Draft2Digital has a set upload size limit to enable them to convert your doc file to epub files when publishing your ebook. Typically, under 30 MB is common because, extremely large ebooks often take long to be uploaded. If your book is only text, and you’ve managed to write an extremely long book with series of chapters… it may take some readers days to finish your book. And Not just you will contain readers inside your book; you will also have enough people using their imagination as they read.
Having long books to read is important for readers to stick with your content for a long haul. For this instance; you were writing a medical fiction book,–just like what I’m experimenting currently. Your ebook has over 400 pages. You managed to write up to 10 MB of text without any images because, you wanted people to see text only. This is useful for people who don’t draw images for their work. Having long chapters to read is key to readers reading your content.
Chapters can be long or short, unless your book has internal books in it. If you were writing a set of stories inside your book, and you discovered your book reaching a size of 5 MB, most likely, your ebook is about to take up space in some reading devices like ereaders, tablets, and other devices. If your ebook is DRM-Free like my books; your users can see how large your book is by taking a look of a size of a file itself. Ebooks with only text can rarely reach over 1 GB in size. This is common for some people who prefer to write only text-based content. However; your content is influenced by format and size. However; your document’s metadata calculates word count, formatting, and other data in your document. Unfortunately, Draft2Digital doesn’t support uploading of raw html files. Although; this is a limitation for some people who only write in html language.
Long Chapters In General
Long chapters can be useful if you ant to enable your readers to read your book like watching a movie. However; your chapters length depends on these factors; your imagination, your scenes, character interaction, storyline, events, and plot of your story.
If your chapter has at least 10 pages via Google Docs, your chapter may be long enough as you write your book. If your chapters is too short, your story may be too choppy. You have to smooth it out as possible. You should only go choppy… if you know what you’re actually doing! If your scenes are less choppy; the better your book is easy to read and understand overtime. If your chapter is too long; you may need to break it up with new chapters when possible.
It’s okay to have a long ebook
You can have a long ebook if you want, but you must create interesting and unique content as you write your ebooks. However; your ebooks that are long enough can retain some of your readers, but don’t expect your readers will keep reading your books like normal,–unless you use a library distribution service offered by Draft2Digital.
If you want to have a large ebook to publish to Draft2Digital, follow these steps:
- If you use Google Docs, go to drive.google.com, and either edit your existing ebook what you’re writing or create a new document for your new ebook. If you were using a paid version of a word editor like Microsoft Word, create a new file… if you don’t have Microsoft Word, visit Microsoft’s website, and buy a genuine copy of their software by ordering a disc or digital download for your PC,–or if you were using a service for editing files online… sign up for a subscription.
- Write your book like normal.
- If you were writing a text-based book; write like normal. If you have images; you may need to experiment with your work.
- As you write your book; choose how many chapters to include in your book.
- For Google Drive users, download your docx file to upload to your Draft2Digital Account, if you are a Microsoft Office user, save your local doc file to your PC. If you don’t have a Draft2Digital Account; you can create one for free by visiting their website.
- Confirm if your docx file hasn’t passed the upload size limit.
- Publish your book.
- Download your epub file to varify if your ebook can be opened on your device. If your epub file has reached over 500 MB in size, most likely you’ve written a large book for your audience. If you want to make it easier for your readers to read your content offline; don’t use DRM on your ebook. Relying on library distribution services can reduce the costs of your regular customers buying ebooks from traditional retailers online.
- Enables you to include short stories in your large ebook, like a basket of ebooks. Useful for making stories about your fictional character what you’re developing.
- Useful for writing technical information as you write guides for making software from scratch.
- Ideal for writing movie-like books as a cheap alternative to making movies with actors/actresses, writing scripts, and other expensive factors.
- Establish long reading time for any of your audience. If you publish to Scribd, or any other subscription-based libraries; it may take some time for you to get reads of your book.
- More of a story what you want to tell by writing,–almost like making a TV show.
- Almost like giving an author an illusion of watching a movie without a movie theater!
- Ideal for writing series of self-help books in one ebook.
- Ideal for crime fiction.
- Ideal for long erotic books… for example; a guy who rides a blue mermaid who tries to reach a goal to keep their romance stable.
- Baskets of internal books can be categorized like a blog or website.
- Real stories
- Device storage may be used up… applies to older devices without SD cards installed.
- If your ebook is DRM-Enabled, your ebook may NOT support older devices. However; if your ebook contains advanced layouts, it may not support older devices.
- May take time for your large ebook to be distributed… may also take online disk storage. Each book at 1 GB can take up an entire space on a 1-TB HDD.