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Narrated version of Dick’s “Beyond the Door”
This quirky story, Beyond the Door, narrated by Lee Purcell, takes the most benign character imaginable, a cuckoo inside a clock, and imbues it with a sense of menace and malign intent.
Giving New Life to Broken Computing Devices
Xmas is over. Your shiny new iPad Mini is unwrapped and ready for many years of ebook reading. But there remains a nagging problem: what to do with the old iPad Mini with the badly damaged glass on the front panel assembly. You investigated the costs of having it...
5 Productivity Hacks Anyone Can Use to Write Books Faster
Guest contributor Alexis Radcliff offers solid advice on how to boost your writing productivity without sacrificing quality.
More Content, Better Filtering in the ePublish Yourself! Newsstand
e've revamped the ePublish Yourself! Newsstand to better serve your interests. We now have a wider selection of the best bloggers in the ebook sector, the addition of thumbnail images where available to...
Rebirth of Amazing Stories
With a publication history stretching back nearly a century, Amazing Stories has set many landmarks—high and low. As the first science fiction magazine on the market, Amazing Stories served as a proving ground for many writers who would later become luminaries in the...
Epublishing Maverick: An Interview with Nathan Meunier
Nathan Meunier started exploring self-publishing opportunities nearly a decade ago, but his efforts have recently gained momentum with the introduction of his Indie Author Success Series. With new strategies and a creative approach to promotions, he's increasingly...
Indie Published Novel Soars to New Heights: The Martian
The list of wildly successfully authors who initially accumulated piles of rejection slips from publishers is a long one. Count J.K. Rowling, James Patterson, Stephen King, Agatha Christie, and James Lee Burke among the members of this elite group. Some took to...
Indie Bookstore Thrives in the Digital Age
When Connie Brooks and her husband founded Battenkill Books in 2009 in the small village of Cambridge, NY, the determined move was accompanied by a fair amount of trepidation. At the time, the economy was in the midst of a serious recession, the popularity of ebooks...
Narrated version of Dick’s “Beyond the Door”
This quirky story, Beyond the Door, narrated by Lee Purcell, takes the most benign character imaginable, a cuckoo inside a clock, and imbues it with a sense of menace and malign intent.
Giving New Life to Broken Computing Devices
Xmas is over. Your shiny new iPad Mini is unwrapped and ready for many years of ebook reading. But there remains a nagging problem: what to do with the old iPad Mini with the badly damaged glass on the front panel assembly. You investigated the costs of having it...
5 Productivity Hacks Anyone Can Use to Write Books Faster
Guest contributor Alexis Radcliff offers solid advice on how to boost your writing productivity without sacrificing quality.
More Content, Better Filtering in the ePublish Yourself! Newsstand
e've revamped the ePublish Yourself! Newsstand to better serve your interests. We now have a wider selection of the best bloggers in the ebook sector, the addition of thumbnail images where available to...
Rebirth of Amazing Stories
With a publication history stretching back nearly a century, Amazing Stories has set many landmarks—high and low. As the first science fiction magazine on the market, Amazing Stories served as a proving ground for many writers who would later become luminaries in the...
Epublishing Maverick: An Interview with Nathan Meunier
Nathan Meunier started exploring self-publishing opportunities nearly a decade ago, but his efforts have recently gained momentum with the introduction of his Indie Author Success Series. With new strategies and a creative approach to promotions, he's increasingly...
Indie Published Novel Soars to New Heights: The Martian
The list of wildly successfully authors who initially accumulated piles of rejection slips from publishers is a long one. Count J.K. Rowling, James Patterson, Stephen King, Agatha Christie, and James Lee Burke among the members of this elite group. Some took to...
Indie Bookstore Thrives in the Digital Age
When Connie Brooks and her husband founded Battenkill Books in 2009 in the small village of Cambridge, NY, the determined move was accompanied by a fair amount of trepidation. At the time, the economy was in the midst of a serious recession, the popularity of ebooks...
Narrated version of Dick’s “Beyond the Door”
This quirky story, Beyond the Door, narrated by Lee Purcell, takes the most benign character imaginable, a cuckoo inside a clock, and imbues it with a sense of menace and malign intent.
Giving New Life to Broken Computing Devices
Xmas is over. Your shiny new iPad Mini is unwrapped and ready for many years of ebook reading. But there remains a nagging problem: what to do with the old iPad Mini with the badly damaged glass on the front panel assembly. You investigated the costs of having it...
5 Productivity Hacks Anyone Can Use to Write Books Faster
Guest contributor Alexis Radcliff offers solid advice on how to boost your writing productivity without sacrificing quality.
More Content, Better Filtering in the ePublish Yourself! Newsstand
e've revamped the ePublish Yourself! Newsstand to better serve your interests. We now have a wider selection of the best bloggers in the ebook sector, the addition of thumbnail images where available to...
Rebirth of Amazing Stories
With a publication history stretching back nearly a century, Amazing Stories has set many landmarks—high and low. As the first science fiction magazine on the market, Amazing Stories served as a proving ground for many writers who would later become luminaries in the...
Epublishing Maverick: An Interview with Nathan Meunier
Nathan Meunier started exploring self-publishing opportunities nearly a decade ago, but his efforts have recently gained momentum with the introduction of his Indie Author Success Series. With new strategies and a creative approach to promotions, he's increasingly...
Indie Published Novel Soars to New Heights: The Martian
The list of wildly successfully authors who initially accumulated piles of rejection slips from publishers is a long one. Count J.K. Rowling, James Patterson, Stephen King, Agatha Christie, and James Lee Burke among the members of this elite group. Some took to...
Indie Bookstore Thrives in the Digital Age
When Connie Brooks and her husband founded Battenkill Books in 2009 in the small village of Cambridge, NY, the determined move was accompanied by a fair amount of trepidation. At the time, the economy was in the midst of a serious recession, the popularity of ebooks...
Narrated version of Dick’s “Beyond the Door”
This quirky story, Beyond the Door, narrated by Lee Purcell, takes the most benign character imaginable, a cuckoo inside a clock, and imbues it with a sense of menace and malign intent.
Giving New Life to Broken Computing Devices
Xmas is over. Your shiny new iPad Mini is unwrapped and ready for many years of ebook reading. But there remains a nagging problem: what to do with the old iPad Mini with the badly damaged glass on the front panel assembly. You investigated the costs of having it...
5 Productivity Hacks Anyone Can Use to Write Books Faster
Guest contributor Alexis Radcliff offers solid advice on how to boost your writing productivity without sacrificing quality.
More Content, Better Filtering in the ePublish Yourself! Newsstand
e've revamped the ePublish Yourself! Newsstand to better serve your interests. We now have a wider selection of the best bloggers in the ebook sector, the addition of thumbnail images where available to...
Rebirth of Amazing Stories
With a publication history stretching back nearly a century, Amazing Stories has set many landmarks—high and low. As the first science fiction magazine on the market, Amazing Stories served as a proving ground for many writers who would later become luminaries in the...
Epublishing Maverick: An Interview with Nathan Meunier
Nathan Meunier started exploring self-publishing opportunities nearly a decade ago, but his efforts have recently gained momentum with the introduction of his Indie Author Success Series. With new strategies and a creative approach to promotions, he's increasingly...
Indie Published Novel Soars to New Heights: The Martian
The list of wildly successfully authors who initially accumulated piles of rejection slips from publishers is a long one. Count J.K. Rowling, James Patterson, Stephen King, Agatha Christie, and James Lee Burke among the members of this elite group. Some took to...
Indie Bookstore Thrives in the Digital Age
When Connie Brooks and her husband founded Battenkill Books in 2009 in the small village of Cambridge, NY, the determined move was accompanied by a fair amount of trepidation. At the time, the economy was in the midst of a serious recession, the popularity of ebooks...
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Amazon Debuts Kindle Comic Creator
Think Kindle is just for books with lots of text and the occasional interspersed image? Think again. In early April 2013, Amazon released a new free tool to indie authors and publishers called the Kindle Comic Creator. This tool makes it easy to turn comics, graphic...
Book Trailers Unreeled: Speaking with Film Director Tucker Capps
ook trailers, those short video teasers that take their name from the more common movie trailers, offer an intriguing way to hook potential readers through the dramatic power of visual storytelling. But...
Exploring Ebook Formats—K-NFB Blio (XPS)
icrosoft introduced the XPS format during the Microsoft Windows Vista rollout several years back as a competitor to Adobe’s PDF. This format, based on XML, has been adopted by K-NFB Reading Technology for...
Spruce Up Your Ebook Cover with a Photo
The old saw goes something like this: “You can’t judge a book by its cover.” Now I’m not one to question your elementary school English teacher’s wisdom (though the original expression was actually “You can’t judge a book by its binding”). I get it. But when it comes...
Exploring Ebook Formats—Mobile Applications
oday's ereaders are amazing devices, allowing people to carry hundreds or thousands of books, reformat text size on demand, and help look up unfamiliar words. More advanced ereaders even play audio and...
Exploring Ebook Formats—EPUB
nlike Amazon's AZW/MOBI format, EPUB is an open standard that is used in a growing number of ereaders including the Apple iPad, Barnes & Noble NOOK, and Kobo eReader, among others. The standard itself...
Exploring Ebook Formats—Portable Document Format (PDF)
echnically, PDF is not considered a true ebook format because it doesn’t offer reflowable text allowing readers to easily change the font and size to suit their reading conditions. This makes sense...
Exploring Ebook Formats—Amazon Kindle (AZW/MOBI)
ne of the most popular ebook formats—in terms of unit sales—is Amazon's proprietary AZW format (also known as MOBI 7). AZW, which many speculate to stand for Amazon Whispernet (the cellular-based wireless...
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A New Source of Revenue for Indie Authors?
(Photo credit: Fréderic) There has been a bit of chatter among authors surrounding Amazon's new Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, which allows Amazon Prime members to borrow up to one book a month for free with no due dates. Much of the controversy revolves around...