Archive for April, 2011
Pat the Bunny for iPad & iPhone [Video]
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Self-Publishing: How You Can Reduce Costs
Check all articles from Technology for self-publishers series. The price of a book is what really matters to readers. It’s where self-published authors can compete with traditional publishers, as the examples of Amanda Hocking or J.A. Konrath show. Many Kindle Store writers choose $0.99 price tag. They can afford it, as the cost of publishing [...]
28 Out of 100 Top Kindle E-books Are Self-Published
After a February excitement about Amanda Hocking earning millions of dollars from Kindle Store, I wanted to check how self-published authors are doing a couple of weeks later. From a Kindle Store list of top 100 e-books I’ve selected those ones, which were published by the authors themselves. It was not an easy task, as [...]
Self-Publishing: How Technology Is Making You More Powerful [Introduction]
Check all articles from Technology for self-publishers series. This is a kick-off post of a series of articles devoted to describe free tools, which can self-publishers write, publish and promote better books. If you decide to self-publish an e-book, you’ll become more powerful than you think. You can do it with a help of tools [...]
Czytelniku, czy masz zespół Downa?
Wczoraj, dzięki wpisowi Aleksandra Sowy na Facebooku trafiłem na niesmaczny post Pawła Pollaka, w którym czytelników książki Sowy porównuje do osób z zespołem Downa. Poczułem się wywołany do tablicy – i to poczwórnie. Po pierwsze sam czytam książki autorów, którzy publikują poza tradycyjnym obiegiem wydawniczym, takie jak Autor 2.0 Sowy. Po drugie, jako autor, właśnie [...]
40+ Free Tools for Authors
This post is designed to give you a concise, yet comprehensive preview of most important free tools you can pick up to publish and promote your e-books. I hope it will help you discover the ones, which in a best possible way fit your author profile and personal needs. I’ll update the list frequently. It’s [...]
Free Tools for Authors Offered by Ebook Friendly: First Chapter Previews and Book Directory
You may already know that I founded Ebook Friendly – a very special e-bookstore addressed to those readers who are aware of distractions the web brings and want to avoid them at the stage of browsing for books. Why did I choose such a positioning? Because reading is all about being focused, opposite to Internet [...]
Google Books for iPad updated with landscape mode and intelligent search [video]
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What Is Your Primary E-reading Device? [Poll]
I would appreciate, if you leave your quick vote. Although many of us may access their digital bookshelves from a number of devices, I wanted to keep the poll simple. Please check only one answer, make sure to choose your primary e-reading device – the one you use most intensively to read e-books. Computer desktop, [...]
E-book Covers With E-reading Application Look
Copy-pasting covers from print to digital editions doesn’t make sense to me and in my opinion it’s a lost opportunity. I personally want to explore new areas – the ones digital world gives. If I’m designing a cover for an electronic book, it should be something which is using a digital context. That’s my goal, [...]
Interview About Self-Publishing for Il Sole 24 Ore
We had a chance to meet and talk with Alessio Jacona at the Ebok Lab Italia conference, which took place at the beginning of March in Rimini. The article appeared on the 10th of March in Il Sole 25 Ore, a top Italian national daily business newspaper. Every author has a story. There are inspiring [...]
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader – enhanced e-book for the iPad [video]
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How to Install Google’s Note in Reader Bookmarklet in iPad’s Safari
If you want to install in your iPad’s Safari a Google’s Note in Reader bookmarklet, just in case you really need to share something from your mobile browser rather than an RSS reader, there are two ways to do it – both pretty easy. Option 1 1. Go to this post in iPad’s Safari (you [...]
5 Tips on How to Use Your Smartphone to Read Ebooks
In this article I’d like to share tips on how to use your smartphone as an e-reader. Nobody wants you to read long novels on this decent device. Just the opposite – enjoy its most prominent features: mobility, connectivity and instant access. Based on my personal experience (I’m reading on an iPhone since late 2008) [...]
3D Technology in Books? It’s Already There!
The world is simple: no 2D is as attractive as 3D. Full stop. With 3D technology coming to TV sets, everyone is making calculations. Some people already bought the expensive equipment to play 24/7 those two films available in 3D technology. So, what is this 3D book technology, who patented it, how much does it [...]
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