TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » Paul StJohn Mackintosh http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 21 May 2013 13:29:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Review: “Let’s Get Visible: How to Get Noticed and Sell More Books” by David Gaughran http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/review-lets-get-visible-how-to-get-noticed-and-sell-more-books-by-david-gaughran/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/review-lets-get-visible-how-to-get-noticed-and-sell-more-books-by-david-gaughran/#comments Sun, 12 May 2013 15:00:43 +0000 Paul St John Mackintosh http://www.teleread.com/?p=84802 This book had me diving into my current e-book projects within the first few minutes of opening the review copy, looking at how to improve the preview, feedback hooks, tagging, category choice, etc. And by the end, I had a whole checklist of sites to visit, tweaks to make, programs to sign up for. That’s [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/review-lets-get-visible-how-to-get-noticed-and-sell-more-books-by-david-gaughran/feed/ 0 New Orwell cover designs obscure an Orwellian copyright saga http://www.teleread.com/books/a-new-black-orwellian-saga-for-orwell-day/ http://www.teleread.com/books/a-new-black-orwellian-saga-for-orwell-day/#comments Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:08:47 +0000 Paul St John Mackintosh http://www.teleread.com/?p=76481 Penguin Books, along with its seriously talented team of graphic designers, is making great play of its latest rebooting of the George Orwell franchise. Coverage from the Huffington Post to the Creative Review lauds Penguin’s brave and high-minded initiative to relaunch Orwell’s works with bold cover designs that recall the original Penguin editions—only, in the case of [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/android/review-rikomagic-mk802-iii/feed/ 0 The Bitter Struggle for E-Reading http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-bitter-struggle-for-e-reading/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-bitter-struggle-for-e-reading/#comments Sun, 23 Dec 2012 19:17:22 +0000 Paul St John Mackintosh http://www.teleread.com/?p=75861 I was unpleasantly reminded of the sometimes virulent passions that can be unleashed by the e-book debate on Mayan apocalypse day, as I was sitting in a cafe near Budapest’s Chain Bridge, reading on my Nexus 7. A middle-aged English couple were sitting at the next table, and as they left, the man launched into [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-bitter-struggle-for-e-reading/feed/ 13 All Books Are E-Books Now. (And they have been for decades.) http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/all-books-are-e-books-now-and-they-have-been-for-decades/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/all-books-are-e-books-now-and-they-have-been-for-decades/#comments Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:37:34 +0000 Paul St John Mackintosh http://www.teleread.com/?p=72770 What We Really Talk About When We Talk About E-Books This post was inspired by a few of the recent complaints posted to TeleRead about e-publishing standards, and by some of the other more Luddite anti-e-book comments that have appeared here and elsewhere online. I think it’s worth reminding both e-book-pros and the anti-e-book contingent that in [...]

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