Category: English
Pricing of Self-published Books to International Readers
Self-publishing is changing. I think that in 2012 indie authors should go global. One of the important topics to raise is how to price books for international customers. My advice is simple: keep them low. The report on top self-published Kindle books of 2011, which I’ve recently released, shows a downward trend in both the [...]
Quick Note: Adding Most Useful Posts from Ebook Friendly to This Blog’s Feed
If you check this blog’s feed from time to time you may have realized there are not many new posts coming in. It’s because I now focus more to giving tips for readers of electronic books – and the better place to share them is my ebook discovery site, Ebook Friendly. As I don’t want [...]
What’s New With EPUB 3?
I’m very pleased to share a new post by Paul Salvette. This time Paul will be talking about ePub 3 and how the new version of this popular file format can be used by authors and publishers. For more helpful tips on ebook formatting, check Paul’s book How to Format Your eBook for Kindle, NOOK, [...]
Creating Epub Ebooks with Sigil: #3 – Images, Metadata, TOC, Finalization
This is a last part of the Sigil tutorial by Paul Salvette. You’ll read about how to add images and metadata to an ebook, how to deal with table of contents, and finally – how to convert epub file to mobi format, if you want to make it available for Kindle devices. You can read [...]
Creating Epub Ebooks with Sigil: #2 – Styling and Chapters
In a second part of the Sigil tutorial Paul Salvette gives tips on how to style the document. What is especially interesting is how to deal with headings and how to split an ebook into chapters. Read a first post here and get free updates of the blog, if you don’t want to miss the [...]
6 Sites Where You Can Find Non-English Kindle Books
If you can’t find books in your mother tongue at Kindle Store, you can try other legal sources. Here’s a list I’ve prepared for Ebook Friendly – with tips how to find books, if search by language is unavailable. Two sites, Smashwords and Feedbooks, can be a great source of contemporary books from self-published authors [...]
Creating Epub Ebooks with Sigil: #1 – Getting Started
I’m delighted to present a first part of a tutorial on how to create epub ebooks, written by Paul Salvette. Formatting files for digital distribution might look difficult, but it’s good to give it a try – and Sigil seems to be the best tool available. What’s most important – Paul did a great job [...]
Ebook Specific Cover Design: #4 – Shape
This post is a part of Ebook specific cover design series. This is the most exciting part of the series, as it opens infinity of possibilities. Starting point: book cover doesn’t have to be rectangular any more. In this post I’ll explain why. I’ve designed a cover for Water’s Edge by Robert Whitlow to show [...]
2 Great Ebook Price Comparison Tools
Buying ebooks is different from buying print books. You are much more tied with the ebookstore as it’s also giving you the access to your virtual bookshelf with all the titles you’ve bought. Does comparing ebook prices between different sources make sense, then? Definitely yes. There are at least three instances you may want to [...]
4 Powerful Tools to Schedule Social Media Updates
Many Internet users treat social media as news feeds. The challenge is to reach them at the right time – the time they are active online. Even if some users don’t subscribe to your blog, you can still reach them via social media. There is only one disadvantage. Social networks are all about instant information. [...]
Get Updates of Kindle Daily Deal via RSS or E-mail
Recently Amazon introduced Kindle Daily Deal. Every day one Kindle book is offered at a discounted price. For new deals you can check the official page, follow Amazon Kindle on Twitter and Facebook or subscribe to Kindle Daily Post. The only disadvantage is that you won’t get updates exclusively for Kindle Daily Deal. After reading [...]
Ebook Specific Cover Design: #3 – Proportions
This post is a part of Ebook specific cover design series. In a third post about ebook cover design I’d like to focus on proportions. A digital book is immaterial. It’s a file, not an object. If you open it on your device, it would most probably fit to the proportions of the screen. So, [...]
Ebook Design: Interview with Sarah E Melville
I’m honored to share an interview with Sarah E Melville. Sarah is an extremely talented graphic designer and award-winning artist. Recently she launched a new site, Your Cover Uncovered, where you can submit your book’s cover for review – as well as learn from reviews of other books. Designing covers specifically for ebooks is a [...]
Mr. Reader – an iPad RSS Reader with Lots of Useful Features
This post is not directly related to ebooks but it’s about reading on mobile devices, and if you are an iPad user you may find it useful. There are many RSS feed reading apps for iOS, designed exclusively to deliver content from Google Reader account. Most popular are Reeder, MobileRSS, NewsRack or Feedly. There is [...]
“Look Inside” for Kindle Books – 3 Tips for Authors
Recently Amazon added to Kindle Store a new, very useful feature – Look Inside. It is the same feature as Look Inside for printed editions but it’s showing the content of the relevant Kindle book. More details about the this functionality you can find in this post and now I’d like to focus on how [...]
Now “Look Inside” Feature Is Available for Kindle Ebooks!
Recently, somewhere around the launch of Kindle Cloud Reader, I’ve noticed another new functionality for Kindle users – and in my opinion this is big. Now Look Inside, the feature you well know from printed editions of books sold on Amazon, works also for Kindle ebooks! Already in late May some Kindle authors were reporting [...]
Easy Tip to Reduce Clutter While Browsing Amazon
Amazon is one of the most cluttered sites on the web. On average there are around 150 links on a single Amazon page, but this is not the only problem. Opposite to news sites or blogs, where main post area is rather easy to spot, you have to go through several information sections, bars and [...]
How to Preview Kindle Ebooks in a Web Browser
Sometimes, if you are on your computer and visit Kindle Store, you’d like to start reading a book immediately – before making a decision to buy. You can obviously send a free sample to a device connected with your account, but some people just don’t want to clutter their Kindles or Kindle apps with too [...]
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 [...]
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