Many, if not most of our eBooks consist of over 100 pages, and we prefer eBooks of over 80 pages in length.  (Approximately 250 words per page) However we have come to the conclusion that there are many subjects in which we are interested that could be best presented not as a lengthy eBook, but as a five to ten page report. 

For that reason consider this a request for such reports.  We are interested in a wide range of subjects as described below.  If you have knowledge of any of the subjects in our venue please contact us.  A Report such as we are describing should consist of approximately 3,000 to 10,000 words, or four or more web pages with 1,000 to 2,000 words per page.  On a standard typewritten page it would once have consisted of approximately twelve pages, if anyone is still using a typewriter.  (250 - 270 words per typewritten page)

Some Examples

Some examples: Colin Reedy wrote an article on how to go about "Designing A Shipping Container As Nomadic Housing"  That article might be used as an example of the sort of report we are seeking. - Global Nomadic Housing

I wrote an article entitled "Offshore Real Estate As Offshore Survival Retreat - Advice Without The Sugar Coating - Very Exciting Real Estate Profits In The First Two Decades Of This Century"  That article is another example of the sort of report we are looking for. - Offshore Real Estate As Offshore Survival Retreat  Another article of mine that might serve as an example is "How To Disappear In Six Easy Lessons" - How To Disappear In Six Easy Lessons

How do these articles differ from the average articles on our website?  The length is one thing; these three examples are all at least four pages in length and each consists of over 10,000 words.  But more important than size is the idea of a unique subject that provides information that isn't ordinarily available anywhere else.  We are seeking unique ideas and proprietary-like information that is not generally available elsewhere; or is known only by you, a very small number of people, or is invented.  Invented ideas are certainly welcome; if the concepts laid out have discernible validity.

To clarify, what we are seeking are not just articles.  The world is full of articles; every day the newspapers of the world churn out millions of articles...  we could drown in articles if we tried to read even a small percentage of them.  People Magazine has a number of articles each month, most of them consist of useless information...  we certainly appreciate articles that are entertaining, in fact entertaining writing is a must; but we don't want articles that are merely entertaining.  National Geographic puts out a monthly magazine that contains articles that are entertaining...  but wow, look at the content!  When you're done reading an article in National Geographic you've learned something. 

Information Worth Paying For

Okay, entertainment and content.  That's the key to what we're seeking.  The information must be worth paying for, and we'll pay you for it. We'll pay you $200 and up for an article such as we are describing.  I believe that the article by Colin Reedy mentioned above is worth at least $300 because it has excellent graphics made by Colin and because it contains proprietary information that Colin created specific to the article.  It's an excellent article and on par to what we are seeking. 

If you have a concept or know of a subject that you believe fulfills our description of what we are seeking; contact us at once. We'll buy your article. 

Important Update - On How You Can Make Money With Your Ideas

The following part of this article (below) was written in February 2004.  Since then some things have changed.  We are now seeking eBook reports on almost any subject; not just on expatriate issues.  In addition we are seeking reports of less than eBook length as described above.  We have had so much success with our eBooks and our website that we have decided to expand our library to include more subjects and also briefer reports - - subjects that are important even if they are not directly related to expatriate issues.  The following article outlines our basic principals regarding our eBook needs, but what is missing from the following article is our updated request for eBook reports on any subject.  If you know something, and you know it well, we're interested in turning your idea into an eBook and putting it on our website.  Our eBooks sell!  As the following article states our authors make money. 

Read the article below to get an idea of what we have been seeking in the way of eBook subjects, or if you think that you have an idea that would make a great eBook even though it isn't on an expatriate subject and you'd like to find out how to sell it from our website as an eBook contact us at once - we're interested! 

Many people get stopped when they realize that writing is work, and research is work.  But consider the benefits once you learn your trade.  I know one writer who actually writes in a hammock, using a laptop computer.  He lives in a house on a bluff over the ocean, travels and researches various areas, makes a substantial income and most importantly, his life is entirely his own; he goes where he wants, keeps his own hours and lives in total liberty.

eBooks fit particularly well on our website.  Because of the unique nature of our website our overall subject matter includes a number of subjects that are important to us and to you, but that would not merit the cost of putting them into a conventional hardcopy book.  A hardcopy book on how to buy real estate, move to and gain residency in Brazil wouldn't justify the cost of printing a hardcopy book on the subject.  Yes, there is definitely an audience for such a book, but not a large enough audience to justify the cost of conventional hardcopy printing.  On our website, such a book is in front of the right audience, and while it costs us to produce the eBooks, the cost doesn't compare with the cost of printing a hardcopy book on the same subject.  This allows us to keep the cost low, the subjects as esoteric as our audience, and to provide information that you would not be able to find anywhere else on the Internet. (...nor in your local bookstore.)

So, what is special about our eBooks are the subjects and the prices.  We'll get to a wider discussion of the prices in a minute, let's further discuss the subjects of our eBooks first to see if you'd qualify as one of our eBooks writers.  If so, you've got a chance to make some money, perhaps enough to live on in a foreign country.  (In fact it could work into making a whole lot of money, but we're not going to make grandiose claims.)

Do You Know Something Our Readers Would Like To Know?

What we are seeking is subject and content.  As anyone who has been visiting our website and reading our magazine knows, we rely totally on content.  We are seeking writers who can write eBooks that have something of value by way of content.  If you've lived for five years in Buenos Aires you probably know enough to tell someone how to move there, how to find real estate there, how to find a job there, where to go, where not to go and so forth.  If you've started a hostel in Guatemala, you can probably tell readers how to open a hostel.  You get the point.  You have to know whereof you speak and you have to supply resources to the reader that would otherwise take them months to gather the hard way.

Reports like these do not have a mass market appeal. They appeal to a niche audience, and that is where we come in.  Our subscription base is now just over 350,000 subscribers and we are now the largest magazine of our type in the world.  (Note that our actual unique visitor count to our network does consist of over one million unique visitors per month.  The Alexa Traffic Rank for escapeartist.com places us in the top 4,000 websites in the world out of 2.5. billion website pages.)

We have the audience and we can sell your ebook if you have something to say and you can write it.

So, you're not a professional writer, does that mean we still want your report?

If you've been there and done it, we absolutely want your report!

What we're looking for are ideas, not Pulitzer Prize writers. Ideas are what fuel our magazine and our website. Now we want to expand that concept into eBooks for expats.  You don't have to be a professional writer to submit a report that provides important information - - information that you yourself have learned by having been there and done it. That is exactly what our readers are seeking, facts about living overseas from people who've done it, facts about buying a barge and sailing down the Danube, what it takes to migrate to Argentina, how to open a business in Prague, buy an island in Belize, get a job in Paris, start a farm in Mozambique, run an internet business out of the Dominican Republic, run a rent-a-scooter shop in Mauritius.

What we are seeking is rich content, style takes second place.

You don't have to be Hemingway to write eBooks for us, but you do have to have a rudimentary command of the english language.  We'll edit the reports, but your report have to be written clearly enough to be comprehensible. 

Money

How do we pay you?  We pay you 40% of everything earned by your report. (Many time what a hardcopy publisher pays. The reports will be featured in our eBooks For Expats section. We create banners for them, we provide links to them and we feature them in our eMagazines that go out to over 350,000 subscribers each month.  Except in special circumstances, most of our ebooks sell for $20. If you sell 100 reports a month you earn $800 a month.  It is quite easy to sell 100 reports a month, depending on the popularity of your subject.