- Top Self-publishers on Twitter | Ebook Friendly
July 10, 2011
To help you discover great ebooks from self-published authors and follow their new projects, we prepared a handy list based on their top selling titles in
- 10 Questions You Must Answer Before You Self-Publish : Working Writers
July 7, 2011
Thats why the self-publishing industry (once called Vanity Press) has flourished! Everyone is a publisher. Traditional publishers want to know if you have real marketability and are willing to take the risk to publish ...
- How to self-publish an ebook | Fully Equipped
July 6, 2011
Editors' note: Updated November 9, 2010A while back I wrote a column entitled "Self-Publishing: 25 things you need to know," which was mostly about how to create and sell your own paper book. Since then a lot of folks have asked me to do something similar for e-books, so I have.I...
- Considering the 40th Anniversary of eBooks
July 4, 2011
How do I love ebooks, let me count the ways: 40 years ago there was only one eBook on the Internet that you could download, and the operators were resistant to an additional eBook being added more than once a year, and it had to be a short one, given the space and bandwidth. From [...]Considering th...
- 2011 is the Year of the eBook
July 2, 2011
There are three times as many ereader devices now than just a single year ago, and Amazon has just announced that their own eBooks now have eight authors selling over a million eBooks. Of course, this is a million eBooks total, none of the eBooks are million sellers on their own, while sites such as...
- 7 Platforms Changing the Future of Publishing
June 28, 2011
Cutting out the middleman, or what the Nobel Peace Prize has to do with harnessing the potential of tablets.
Depending on whom you ask, these are either the best or the worst of times for the written word. As with every other branch of traditional media, the Internet has pushed the publishing indust...
- 6 Excellent Tools For Writing Without Distractions
July 7, 2011
Just as the Web has brought us untold advances in innovation, collaboration and productivity, it has also given us things like this Tumblr blog curating animated GIFs of Tom Hanks portraying various animals, not to mention Farmville, Twitter or the 35 hours of video that are uploaded to YouTube eve...
- Judging E-Readers by Their Book Readability - Wall Street Journal
June 29, 2011
PCR-online.bizJudging E-Readers by Their Book ReadabilityWall Street JournalWSJs Katherine Boehret reviews the updated versions of the Nook from Barnes Noble and the Kindle from Amazon. If youre heading to the beach this summer and you plan to read an e-book, you wont want to take your iPad. ...Con...
- UPDATED: WATCH Pottermore Revealed!
June 23, 2011
LONDON — Harry Potter battled the forces of evil and now is set to conquer the web – coming to e-books in a groundbreaking deal that has d...
Read more: Ereaders, Pottermore Ebooks, Video, Book Publishing, Jk Rowling Website, Harry Potter eBooks, pottermore.com, Pottermore Revealed,...
- Book lovers adopting e-readers at faster rates - Washington Post (blog)
June 27, 2011
Afterdawn.comBook lovers adopting e-readers at faster ratesWashington Post (blog)The Kobo eReader Touch, left, an Amazon Kindle, an Aluratek Libre Air and a Barnes Noble Nook. (RICHARD DREW/ASSOCIATED PRESS) Digital e-readers such as the Amazon Kindle have been really taking off in the United State...
- 9 digital book-making tools
June 23, 2011
As a preview for his upcoming free webcast, Pete Meyers offers a quick overview of digital tools used for app and ebook creation.
- New Digital Publishing App Available for OSX
June 21, 2011
Wondershare , a specialist in digital conversion apps, has just released MePub. This app is designed to take any number of source formats and create Epub eBooks that will work “with poplar (sic) e-readers, including Apple iPad® (using iBook), Barnes Noble NOOK™/NOOK Color, Sony Reader, Amazon...
- What Should Publishers Do Now We've Got Self-Publishing? - Forbes (blog)
June 21, 2011
MiamiHerald.comWhat Should Publishers Do Now Weve Got Self-Publishing?Forbes (blog)can publish a book on the Amazon Kindle or the Barnes and Noble Nook (to say nothing of the iUniverse, iPhone, iPad and whatever else Apple has put an i in front of to trademark) what role is there left for publishers...
- Independent Author Sells 1 Million Ebooks Via Amazon - Mashable
June 20, 2011
msnbc.comIndependent Author Sells 1 Million Ebooks Via AmazonMashableCrime novelist John Locke has become the first independent author to sell more than 1 million ebooks through Kindles Direct Publishing program, Amazon announced Monday. The author, a self-described “niche marketer” who attribut...
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