Archive for July, 2011
Use Readability to Add Web Content to Your Kindle
Readability, a great service which turns web pages into a reading-friendly mode, announced a cool feature many Kindle owners were waiting for. Now you can send web content directly to your Kindle e-reader. How to set up your Kindle device 1. Visit your Amazon Kindle settings page and add to your approved e-mail list a [...]
6 Tips and Tricks to Use Kindle for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch
Kindle for iOS has just been updated to version 2.8 (iTunes link), which complies with Apple’s new in-app purchase rules. Kindle Store button was removed from home page – it was obvious. I’ve also checked endings of free samples to see what Amazon did with their Buy Now link, which in older versions was switching [...]
Ebook Specific Cover Design: #2 – Size and Resolution
This post is a part of Ebook specific cover design series. When you make a decision to publish your book only in digital format, you are also making essential change in how you approach cover design. You no longer have to deal with dots per inch in a high-quality print. The goal is not 9 [...]
How to Create Ebook Covers with Phoster Application
Phoster is a fantastic application for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, perfect to create posters, cards, invitations and, yes, ebook covers. I’ve used the word “create” instead of “design” because it better describes what you’ll be doing. You don’t need to design a layout, it’s already done by the developers of the application, folks from [...]
How to Read Adobe DRM Books on Your Android Device
Are looking for a convenient way to manage and read on your Android device all ePub books including those with Adobe DRM? Pick up one single application – Aldiko. First, let me answer the question you may now have: “why would I do it?” There are a couple of instances you’ll need such a solution: [...]
Ebook Specific Cover Design: #1 – Context
This post is a part of Ebook specific cover design series. There are three approaches to covers: – ebook cover is a copy of a print edition, – one cover is designed for both print and digital edition, – a cover is designed for ebook only. I’d like to focus on the last one as [...]
Blurb Mobile Sets the Standard for Future Digital Storytelling
When I’ve written a post with a list of mobile storytelling applications, I had a chance to take a closer look at Blurb Mobile. When I opened it for the first time a couple of days earlier, it looked a bit complicated, but when you give it a second chance, it’ll reveal all the possibilities [...]
Books Help Focus in Times of Distraction [Video]
You’ve been probably reading Johann Hari’s article In The Age of Distraction, We Need One Thing More Than Ever: Books. It encouraged me to do something to reflect this idea as I truly agree with it. The outcome is a video you can watch below.
Best Self-published Books in Kindle Store in June, John Locke Out of Top 100
A couple of days ago I’ve prepared for Ebook Friendly a June edition of Top Self-published Books in Kindle Store. Below I’d like to share a major outcome, and in my opinion the biggest surprise – John Locke didn’t make it to Kindle Store’s Top 100. The author of the Donovan Creed series recently joined [...]
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