- Sunday Self-Publishing Round-up [19 June]
June 19, 2011
It was a week you’ll remember for me asking a lot of questions…
Why arent you buying this book anymore?
Should self-published authors be allowed into professional writing associations?
Joe Konrath takes on the Mystery Writers of America for excluding self-published authors from membership in ord...
- New free enhanced Kindle ebook – get it fast
June 19, 2011
Mike Cane tipped me to the enhanced Kindle Edition of The Fort. I haven’t read it yet, but it’s free so go get it now. According to the description and the cover, this ebook is about the American Revolutionary War.
I’m rushing you off to get it because it comes with video and audio content. Al...
- FutureBook Innovation Workshop '11 - takeaways
June 17, 2011
These are the things I remember from #fiw11:
Ken Follet's book, Fall of Giants, has been given a 3D audio soundtrack. This is clever because sound is a sense input into the brain and reading is cognitive, so the brain can do both and not explode. Also, it works.
And...
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- 9 Ways to Market Your Book With No Money
June 17, 2011
Recently the good folks at BookBuzzr.com, a company with innovative book marketing programs, asked me to do an interview for them, and of course I agreed. This article is adapted and expanded from part of that interview.
If you are an author with a minuscule marketing budget, how can you ensure tha...
- Are Attitudes About E-Book Prices Changing?
June 16, 2011
WITH THE CAVEAT that this is an unscientific poll (seriously, Internet scientific poll police: I know I know I know...) here be the results.
February 2, 2010:
June 14, 2011:
What do you make of these results? Are perceptions of the value of e-books declining? Or is the (yes) unscientific na...
- Spam clogging Amazon's Kindle self-publishing - Reuters
June 16, 2011
Globe and MailSpam clogging Amazons Kindle self-publishingReutersA commuter reads on his Kindle e-reader as a subway train arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 18, 2011. By Alistair Barr SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Spam has hit the Kindle, clogging the online bookstore of the top-selling eReader...
- eBook Self-Publishing: A Simple Guideline and Some Tips on Taking Those First Steps
June 16, 2011
Baby Steps First
Starting to self-publish your ebook or even thinking about it can be a daunting task. A little help before you start will save you time and help you in publishing your ebook in all the right places.
When I published my first book, I had no idea where to go or what to look for. I th...
- Mantano Reader Now Available in the Android Market
June 8, 2011
A new eBook reading app has just launched for Android, and it promises some novel new features.
At first first glance, Mantano Reader looks like your average Epub and PDF app. But it actually has a lot of features like the ability to set text size, text color and background color. You can also hig...
- Is There a Downside to Selling Your E-Books Abroad?
June 15, 2011
By Edward Nawotka
In the past six weeks there has been a drumbeat going through the industry about the opportunities for publishers to sell their e-books in foreign lands. Much of the discussion has revolved around English-language books, which have a large audience of readers across the globe. Muc...
- The Charles Darwin Guide to Writing and Selling an Effective eBook
June 13, 2011
Out of the primordial soup — back in the early 1990s they came.
They weren’t pretty. They weren’t compelling. They’re repulsive to look at today.
But we bought them — lots of them.
They were the first ebooks.
Remember Times Roman? There was page after page of it, like an 8th grade book re...
- Apple updates iBooks with narration, performance boost
June 8, 2011
Apple has today updated iBooks for iPhone and iPad to version 1.3, adding narration features and a performance boost.
The new “read-aloud” feature is intended to help children to read, according to Apple’s patch notes, and works with selected children’s books. Unlike the Amazon Kindle, which...
- Authors: Why Guest Blogging Helps Market your Book
May 27, 2011
Guest Expert: Teresa Morrow
You are an author. You need to market your book and are looking for more ways to spread the message of your book. Guest blogging could be just the answer for you. Guest blogging is where you provide a blog post to another blogger to share with his or her blog readers. Th...
- Amazon's upcoming Android tablet could include streaming TV and movie service - Liliputing
June 13, 2011
Business InsiderAmazons upcoming Android tablet could include streaming TV and movie serviceLiliputingCurrently Amazons only consumer electronics offering is the Kindle, which allows customers to purchase and read Kindle eBooks. General purpose Android tablets would help the retailer push the Amazon...
- 5 Books on How to Deal with Distraction
January 16, 2011
Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark AgeForeword by Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and The Bill McKibben ReaderWe have vast oceans of information at our disposal, yet increasingly we seek knowledge with brief glimpses at online headlines while juggling other tasks. We...
- Kindle for the Web: Free Web Book Previews – Where to Find Them?
March 30, 2011
Look for this widget on pages with paper editionsA couple of months ago Amazon introduced a new functionality, Kindle for the Web, which lets users read samples of books available at their bookstore. You can read for free a first chapter, but also embed such a book on your blog or share it with your...
- Add Books to Kindle for iOS via Mobile Safari
May 22, 2011
Anyone who used Kindle for iOS application knows that a Kindle Store button at the top right of the home screen pushes to quick Kindle and open mobile Safari.
Why don’t you use Safari in a first place? Here are a couple of tips how to optimize the experience.
Open Kindle Store
Don’t be afraid to...
- Best apps for e-reading - Mobile Apps
June 10, 2011
E-readers are slowly gaining momentum on the Australian market, but chances are you have a device in your pocket that will help you to see what all the fuss is about. Here's our list of the top apps for reading ebooks.
- Kobo planning eBook Lending and Self-Publishing Service | Good E-Reader Blog - ebook Reader and Tablet PC News
June 10, 2011
We talked with the CEO of Kobo Michael Serbinis recently at Book Expo New York and he dropped some bombshells on new plans for his company later o
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