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February 10, 2011
[Approximate reading time: 4:07] Questions from readers and clients are where I find out what is causing the most confusion for self-publishers. Lately, one area has dominated the questions I’ve been getting: ebooks. Lots of people have read about the success Joe Konrath and other authors, mostly…
February 16, 2011
We can talk all day about the importance of good writing/editing, good cover art, and good blurbs when it comes to selling ebooks, but obscurity is the toughest thing for us to overcome. Whether you’ve written a thrilling science fiction adventure or a manual on dog training, nobody is going to l…
February 16, 2011
Yesterday the IPDF announced the release of the first public draft of the new Epub 3 standards. This draft is the result of more than 7 months of work by the Epub Working Group. Epub 3 is the next major revision of the Epub ebook format, an XML and Web Standards based format that has become a key g…
February 16, 2011
New sites are springing up to help owners of Amazon’s Kindle ereaders share their booksAmazon’s Kindle ebook lending scheme has taken on a life of its own in the hands of canny book-lovers, with community loaning sites springing up in America to take advantage of free ereading. The latest site, Lend…
February 19, 2011
End of January 2011. Everybody who cares about ebooks is referring to the latest press release from Amazon, stating that books in Kindle format outsell
February 15, 2011
Bluefire, maker of the Bluefire reading app, announced yesterday that they are now an “authorized global reseller of Adobe Content Server 4″. They used to just customize reading apps, but they can now sell a Content Server 4 license to customers who hire them to develop a reading app. This mea…
February 15, 2011
Engadget is reporting that an Apple supplier leak has put the screen size of the next iPhone at 4 inches. That a week bit bigger than the current 3.5-inch screen on the iPhone 4. It doesn’t sound like a lot, but in total area I imagine it would be a very noticeable jump. But would […]
February 16, 2011
Following the debut of Apple’s new subscription model — and publishers’ subsequent displeasure with the company’s insistence on a 30% revenue cut — Google announced today a new service that allows publishers to have greater control over the prices and terms of their digital content prod…
February 16, 2011
Social networking and blogging are still the top two book promotion tactics, according to the annual survey sponsored by The Savvy Book Marketer, with 89 percent of authors surveyed planning to use social networking in 2011 and 86 percent planning…
February 16, 2011
Lendle is a network that aims to bridge the gap of Kindle book exchanging by enabling U.S-based Amazon users to borrow and lend books to people they don’t know. Sharing with the network doesn’t require a Kindle either, the service can be used through Kindle apps including Mac, PC, iOS and Andr…
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