Category: Writer 2.0
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
Pirating $.99 E-books – Is It Worth the Effort?
Two e-books, priced $9.99 and $0.99, start two completely different purchase processes. The price level is affecting how eager we are to get a pirated copy. In case of e-books it’s combined with, in my opinion, the biggest solution to piracy – convenience. Digital goods (especially the ones under a magical level of 1 dollar) [...]
Note-taking and Writing Apps for iPhone and iPad
Sometimes it’s hard to find ideas for a new blog post, short story or a poem. That’s why it’s so important to catch them at the moment they come to mind. Mobile devices are a great way to capture ideas, no doubt about it. You’ve got a mobile phone always with you. It’s much quicker [...]
Simplenote – the Best Note-taking App for iPad and iPhone
Simplenote is a note-taking application for iPad and iPhone. I’ve used many apps before and will review the most important ones in a post coming in a couple of days (so stay tuned and get free updates). Out of many apps tested, Simplenote is a best match. My needs are pretty basic and it’s so [...]
How to Effectively Publish and Promote Books to iPad and iPhone Users
Users of devices with Apple’s iOS mobile operating system (iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch) are a very attractive group of potential readers. There are two major reasons: 1. iOS is a very versatile system, allowing the author to distribute books via different sets of tools and channels. 2. iOS users are more willing to buy [...]
The Simplest Way to Sync Notes Between iPhone and iPad You Probably Don’t Know About
Writers use many note-taking applications on their iOS devices. Some of them are very advanced, like Evernote, but frankly, how often do you tag notes, mark them as favourite or print? If you want to have a quick way to write something down (quick = minimal number of taps) and you want your notes to [...]
Thoughts on Sharing Free Content at Paid Piracy Websites
Piracy is about sharing for free a content for which you have to pay money elsewhere. But what if you find at a file-sharing site a content which is free anywhere else? And what if you actually have to pay for it? One of my books, Hasło niepoprawne, is available at Chomikuj.pl, Poland’s most popular [...]
Self-Publishing: How You Can Learn and Improve
Check all articles from Technology for self-publishers series. Those who say that self-publishing is a vast world of bad quality writing, are right… still right. They do not take into account the fact that self-publishers learn and improve. Self-published authors, those who think seriously about their writing, are highly motivated to find answers to their [...]
Tech Quotes – What Would Technology Say About Humans
Sophisticated things smart people say about other people – everybody loves it. But what if such things were said from a totally different perspective? Nowadays technology is able to analyze, think, judge, choose and response. What was a part of science fiction world now starts to leak into reality. It’s high time to realize that [...]
Self-Publishing: How You Can Sell Globally
Check all articles from Technology for self-publishers series. On a surface it sounds obvious. Sure, if I publish a book at Amazon and Amazon delivers Kindle devices and content to more than 100 countries, that means I have a worldwide distribution. It’s obvious for English speaking authors, but it opens lots of possibilities for non-English [...]
Promocja! E-opowiadania za darmo do końca maja
Tak to już jest z self-publisherami – nie dość, że sprzedają swoje książki po dolarze, to jeszcze robią promocje. Nie chcę być gorszy i dlatego trzy tomy z mojej nowej serii E-opowiadania możesz pobrać za darmo do końca maja! Każdy z tomów zawiera 15 opowiadań współczesnych, nieco kąśliwych i ironicznych, a przeznaczonych do rozbrajania codziennych [...]
Self-Publishing: How You Can Innovate
Check all articles from Technology for self-publishers series. Times when writers were the last people on earth to embrace technology are over. Internet with all the advanced tools and solutions is a chance to be at the forefront. Pioneering can draw unexpectedly huge attention, also from the potential readers of your book. There are two [...]
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