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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 [...]
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: [...]
Storytelling Applications for Your Smartphone
Here’s a handy list of storytelling applications for iOS, Android and other mobile platforms. Note-taking and writing apps were covered already, but storytelling is not only about creating stories, but also sharing them. What’s even more important, technology allows to tell stories instantly – you can think of them, create and share on one device [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Which Links Shared on Twitter Are Mobile Friendly?
Recently Mashable published interesting numbers showing that Twitter users are likely to share a story without actually reading it. In my opinion, one of the major reasons is that users are afraid of opening links on their mobile phones. And as much as 37% of users access Twitter via mobile devices as this infographic shows. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Kindle for the Web – How It Can Be Used by Authors
In September last year Amazon introduced a new tool, Kindle for the Web, which allows users to read and share first chapters of books without leaving a web browser. In addition to a good-looking preview interface, there are two useful features: sharing and embedding. The latter one is a very good, yet underestimated tool which [...]
Self-Publishing: How You Can Build Better Relations
Check all articles from Technology for self-publishers series. Digital environment is leading to an essential change of a relationship’s direction. In a traditional model the major flow was vertical, one way, from publisher to readers. Now the relationship becomes horizontal, two way, between the author and reader – at the level of the reader. Before [...]
Self-Publishing: How You Can Reduce Costs
Check all articles from Technology for self-publishers series. The price of a book is what really matters to readers. It’s where self-published authors can compete with traditional publishers, as the examples of Amanda Hocking or J.A. Konrath show. Many Kindle Store writers choose $0.99 price tag. They can afford it, as the cost of publishing [...]
Self-Publishing: How Technology Is Making You More Powerful [Introduction]
Check all articles from Technology for self-publishers series. This is a kick-off post of a series of articles devoted to describe free tools, which can self-publishers write, publish and promote better books. If you decide to self-publish an e-book, you’ll become more powerful than you think. You can do it with a help of tools [...]
40+ Free Tools for Authors
This post is designed to give you a concise, yet comprehensive preview of most important free tools you can pick up to publish and promote your e-books. I hope it will help you discover the ones, which in a best possible way fit your author profile and personal needs. I’ll update the list frequently. It’s [...]
Free Tools for Authors Offered by Ebook Friendly: First Chapter Previews and Book Directory
You may already know that I founded Ebook Friendly – a very special e-bookstore addressed to those readers who are aware of distractions the web brings and want to avoid them at the stage of browsing for books. Why did I choose such a positioning? Because reading is all about being focused, opposite to Internet [...]
What Is Your Primary E-reading Device? [Poll]
I would appreciate, if you leave your quick vote. Although many of us may access their digital bookshelves from a number of devices, I wanted to keep the poll simple. Please check only one answer, make sure to choose your primary e-reading device – the one you use most intensively to read e-books. Computer desktop, [...]
5 Tips on How to Use Your Smartphone to Read Ebooks
In this article I’d like to share tips on how to use your smartphone as an e-reader. Nobody wants you to read long novels on this decent device. Just the opposite – enjoy its most prominent features: mobility, connectivity and instant access. Based on my personal experience (I’m reading on an iPhone since late 2008) [...]
How Mobile Phones Can Extend Our Daily Reading Experience
Reading on mobile phones is a subject of my continued fascination. How to help people read e-books on their phones? What to do to overcome popular prejudices? Certainly, mobile phones won’t be a primary e-reader for anyone who wants to read more than occasionally, but they can be very useful as a supporting, emergency device. [...]
Self-Publishing, a Source of Innovative Thinking and How to Benefit From It
The presentation you’ll see below was prepared for Ebook Lab Italia conference. I wanted to highlight a prevailing characteristic of self-publishers, yet not discovered and fully utilized by publishers and readers. It’s the innovative thinking.
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