Updating your eBook Dynamically
eBooks are all about information. Information changes every day and with it the content of your eBook. If you have an eBook that covers a subject that renews frequently, your eBook might be out dated in no time unless it incorporates these changes. Constantly updating your eBook is a great way to retain existing customers and earn additional income out of the same product. It even acts a viral marketing tool for your business.
The best known success story of this strategy is Microsoft. Microsoft comes up with new products every day. However, it actually makes money by bringing out updated versions of the same product. Users are required to buy these updated versions as they cannot risk their system from becoming obsolete. The same strategy can be employed in the case of eBooks. You could sell updated versions of the same eBook to your existing customers at a reasonable cost.
One of the safest and most effective ways of updating your eBook is doing it dynamically. This way your customers would not have to download the latest version of the eBook. All they have to do is get connected to the Internet and open their eBook. The new contents would be automatically updated to your existing eBook.
eBooks can be dynamically updated using simple JavaScript. However, there is one caveat here. Only HTML or .exe eBooks can be dynamically updated. This is not possible for PDF or Word format eBooks.
Dynamic updating works something like this. You insert some JavaScript code lines into your eBook that would be dynamically updated. The eBook would dynamically update its contents wherever it finds the JavaScript. The new content that has to be incorporated within the eBook must be written in HTML in new files. Each of these new files would have some HTML code as well as JavaScript. These files are then saved with the extension .js and uploaded on your server under a single directory.
Once this is done, the customer has to connect to your server and using an eBook compiler the new content can be automatically updated into the existing eBook. Note that dynamic updating does not work with all compilers. However, it does work with popular compilers such as Editor Pro and WebCompiler.
The javascript and the HTML code that needs to be written into your eBook is available from the Internet. However, you could also avoid writing the code yourself by using existing javascripts. Once such script is known as the Master Syndicator and is available at .willmaster.com/master
