Author: Piotr Kowalczyk •
Date: May 22, 2011 •
- Adding real interactivity to e-books
May 21, 2011
On Techdirt, Mike Masnick discusses a post by J.A. Konrath proposing turning each e-book into its own social network. The idea is to give an e-book a form of “interactivity” that is more interactive than the audiovisual bells and whistles most publishers seem to associate with interactivity thes...
- What Self-Publishing Isn’t
May 13, 2011
Here are four things I keep hearing about self-publishing. Unfortunately I don’t believe any of them are true.
1. Self-publishing is a way of opening the doors to the weird and the wonderful that otherwise wouldn’t be published.
Everyone knows that the easiest thing about self-publishing...
- Ebook apps not leaving iTunes after all
May 9, 2011
Last week’s story about Yudu and their payment service dredged up some rather interesting details about Apple, ITunes, and the rules that app makers are forced to live with. I kept waiting for someone to notice but it seems to have slipped by most (edit: but not Mike Cane).
The old rule was that...
- M.J. Rose: Tough Love: Things No One Is Brave Enough to Tell Self-Published Authors
May 22, 2011
Co-written with Amy Edelman.
Everyone is writing about how great and glorious the new publishing paradigm is. About the pot of gold at the end of the self-publishing rainbow. About authors getting 70% royalties and having control.
The scent of revolution is in the air.
A writer who writes all...
- Richard Nash: You Are the Future of Publishing
May 22, 2011
Publishing is saddled with this terrible reputation for being reactionary and Luddite, our denizens known largely for caviling against technology and the new-fangled. It is perverse, truly perverse since publishing is in fact at the center of two major social revolutions that dramatically disrupted...
- Bookeen does real time web browsing and scrolling on standard E Ink screen (video)
May 21, 2011
Bookeen has already taunted us with an E Ink Pearl display hacked to playback clips of chubby bunnies without so much as a hicup, now it's showing off web browsing and scrolling on the same screen. It's a little stuttery, as you can see in the video below, but considering this is the same tech fo...
- Google eBooks Get Search, Translation & Definitions
May 19, 2011
Pick up a book like James Joyce's Ulysses and you'll likely want a library at your side to help define, translate and help give the context needed to understand the plethora of heady content inside. Before the days of the Internet, reading some of the more scholarly literary texts involved just that...
- Kindle Books Now Beating All Print Versions Combined [Books]
May 19, 2011
Pa-per? What is pa-per? Some sort of cereal? Do you wear it? What—people used to read things off of it?! No. I can't believe this, because I live in a world in which Kindle copies officially outsell everything. More »
- 5 Free Formatting Guides on How To Publish Your eBook - GalleyCat
May 11, 2011
As self published authors enter the eBook market, formatting has become more important than ever.Indie authors don’t have the same support as a major publisher, so we’ve assembled a list linking to formatting guides for all the major eBookstores.Follow the links below...
- Six eBook Formatting Tools - eBookNewser
May 9, 2011
Even with ePub becoming the standard format for eBooks, formatting an eBook can still be tricky. So we have put together a list of tools to help you make your books available in the eBook form.Here is a list of six tools that can help you format an eBook into ePub and from common f...
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