by Lee Purcell | Feb 16, 2015 | Beginner, Excerpt, Intermediate, Sell
Write Short Kindle Books: A Self-Publishing Manifesto for Non-Fiction Authors by Nathan Meunier Publisher: Kung Fu Grip (January 9, 2015) Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc. Language: English Book Description The Kindle self-publishing revolution is here! Are you...
by Lee Purcell | Jan 2, 2015 | Beginner, Sell
In a BookBaby post from last month, Chris Robley weighed in on the ebook piracy issue, discussing an NeoMam Studios produced infographic that also appeared in an Encremento story. The bottom line: fears about ebook piracy are vastly overstated. Among the raft of...
by John Jerney | Jan 2, 2015 | Beginner, Create, Kindle
This article also appears in the premiere issue of the ePublish Yourself! e-zine, available on ISSUU (free for a short period). Your goal, as an indie-author and publisher, should be to make your work available in as many markets and formats as feasible. This is...
by John Jerney | Dec 31, 2014 | Beginner, Create, iBooks
The Apple iBookstore might not be the largest online bookshop, but it does offer some compelling advantages. To begin, it is part of one of the largest e-commerce ecosystems in the world, frequented by a hip, tech-savvy audience that feels comfortable trying new...
by John Jerney | Dec 31, 2014 | Beginner, Create, iBooks
Apple supports two ebook formats in the iBookstore: iBooks (an Apple native format) and EPUB (an international, standardized format). Both formats offer advantages, as you might expect, but iBooks is particularly interesting because of a range of exciting features...
by Lee Rawn | Dec 31, 2014 | Beginner, Learn
It started with a memory—one insistent incident that begged to be revealed. I had the makings an excellent short story. However, as the fragments of memory coalesced, I realized that this incident was not a turning point or milestone, but a catapult that...
by Lee Purcell | Dec 31, 2014 | Beginner, Meet
View image | gettyimages.com On the occasion of accepting an award from the National Book Foundation—the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters—Ursula K. Le Guin offered some cautionary words on the future of publishing and some inspiring words on...
by Lee Purcell | Dec 31, 2014 | Beginner, Discover
The ebook subscription service Scribd has just expanded its catalog offerings with a mountain of audiobooks—30,000, if you’re counting. This is a small fraction of the existing Scribd ebook catalog, which now surpasses 500,000 titles, but it represents a...
