My favourite line - «Unless you suck (and I'm guessing you don't suck because you're taking the time to read an ebook
about ebook publishing best practices), there are thousands of readers out there just waiting to discover you» That caught my breath!
I love meeting writers at these events and I've always enjoyed presenting my various workshops
about ebook publishing best practices.
Check out the Smashwords blog, where you'll be the first to learn
about ebook publishing best practices, and exciting new developments at Smashwords.
Not exact matches
One of the
best places out there to learn
about publishing an
ebook is Smashwords.com.
And you're going to want to learn
about ebook publishing as
well.
At yesterday's IDPF event, BiblioBoard's Mitchell Davis sat down with
Good eReader to talk
about the new feature that was just launched with Library Journal that will offer libraries a way to feel confident
about including self -
published ebooks in their lending catalogs.
After I saw you
publishing your
ebooks and then NOT
publishing on your blog except to
publish your kindle books I felt
well...
better about myself.
I was pointing more to all his other caveats
about self -
publishing, many of which apply to
ebooks as
well as print.
Robert:
Well, you and Joe are in a different league than most of the other writers thinking
about self -
publishing ebooks.
Download this month's issue here to read
about ebooks, as
well as other topics and trends in international
publishing.
We are not averse to
ebooks (
about thirty of our
published titles are now available as
ebooks, including our
best seller) but by definition this will be a bricks and mortar bookshop, that can also order any book in print.
I know this is a bit off the subject, but since we're talking
about best deals for authors, has anyone used LuLu for their
ebook distribution and
publishing?
Pressbooks.com founder Hugh McGuire shared his ideas
about how
ebooks can serve readers
better at the International Digital
Publishing Forum Digital Book 2015 conference.
Margaret Harrison [00:02:07] Oh thanks,
well so, yeah, I've worked my whole career in
publishing and I started out on the
ebook side working for OverDrive, a major distributor of
ebooks at public libraries, and focusing on
ebooks, so much of it is
about the metadata, not just getting books into channels but also making sure those books, as Justine said, can be discoverable, can be found, and so I started spending a lot more of my time on metadata, and I'm a curious person so I got to know a lot and here I am
Good e-Reader sat down at the Frankfurt Book Fair today with Theresa Horner, Vice President of Digital Content at Barnes and Noble, to talk
about the current state of the Nook division, the associated Nook Press self -
publishing platform, and the upcoming affiliate drive to help authors receive an additional benefit for driving their own fans towards
ebook purchases that offer a return on the transaction.
Indeed, ALL of the articles you've written
about this pet bogey - man of yours — independently -
published eBooks — have uniformly been anything BUT
well thought out.
The conference aims to start a conversation
about ebook design, standards, and
best practices — aspects of
publishing that are
well - established for print books, but currently lacking for
ebooks.
If you want to join a book club, or want to talk shop
about e-readers,
ebooks, digital
publishing and so on, check out our online interactive community, the
Good e-Reader Forum.
And Moore would even work with other authors — like Nina Kelly, Andrew Walker, and Julia Jackson — who have all
published about a dozen
ebooks each this year as
well.
When you read blog posts and articles
about people calling for lower
eBook prices, remember that this is not a call to a universal 99 cents price point, but a wake - up call for the fat cats in the NY
publishing houses, who still believe that having an illiterate like Snooki «write» a book is a
better idea than giving an actual writer a chance.
Please ask us any of your questions
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ebook publishing - we will do our best to answer you as soon as possible without any obligation as we are interested to know what people think and what they may need to know about this new platform of Ebook P
publishing - we will do our
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about this new platform of
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It took a me lot of time, research, and tenacity to find out how a Canadian should
best go
about publishing to print,
eBook, and audiobook (Canadians can't use ACX!).
ND: A unified
ebook standard embraced by all e-reader manufacturers, top - notch
publishing tools that embrace that standard, and a community that cares more
about what we're saying to each other than the
best ways to turn discourse into a numbers game.
Not much to think
about when the choice is between a) one or two traditionally
published novels which probably cost close to 8 or 9 euros as paperbacks and
ebooks or b) twice or thrice as many self -
published kindle
ebooks from writers I have already read and found to be
good enough.
BB
eBooks acts as a business - to - business contractor for the worldwide
publishing community to bring
about better standards for book layout and production.
While our emails
about technical issues to the major
eBook vendors get ignored like everyone else's, we do our
best to find technical solutions for you in your
publishing endeavors.
Related Posts: Self - Publishers Know
Best about Quality and Control, Author Earnings Report Shows Strong Correlation between
eBook Sales and Self -
Published Distribution, Joe Konrath's Predictions Gives Self - Publishers a Glimpse of New Sales Opportunities
When authors think
about publishing a book, they are often focused on print, but putting an
ebook out alongside your print book, or even just an
ebook on its own, is a much
better idea.
If you would like to learn more
about this and shortcut the learning process, Laura has a great course, Picture
Ebook Mastery, which will teach you how to use the KDP Kids Book Creator as
well as sharing tips on designing,
publishing and marketing your books for children as
well as her top tips for working around some of the limitations of the software right now.
On May 8, Open Road Media
published the
ebook editions of The Female Man, And Chaos Died, and Picnic on Paradise — all of which were finalists for the Nebula Award — as
well as The Two of Them and We Who Are
About To....
And finally some
good news for those self - publishers who want to learn
about eBook publishing but still enjoy (or prefer) using a paper book: Successful eBook Publishing will be available in both print and eBook
publishing but still enjoy (or prefer) using a paper book: Successful
eBook Publishing will be available in both print and eBook
Publishing will be available in both print and
eBook editions.
I later discovered Smashwords and Amazon KDP and learned
about publishing eBooks as
well.
So my advice would be to do this all by yourself:
Publish your comic either as an app or as a
ebook (Amazon Kindle store, iBook store,...) and you will pay at the most 30 %, and this 30 % means you won't have to worry
about handling credit cards, doing paybacks, distributing your comic, etc., and you get very
good exposure as
well.
Gordon Burgett presents Our
best practices for general market book
publishing in mid-2013 posted at Gordon Burgett's Blog, saying, «The order in which we submit our books in mid-2013, to paperback and
ebook houses — plus some words
about BookBaby»
We are currently providing service in various sphere of
eBook publishing and digital promotion, and are working to provide
best services to the people who need it, we work to provide various services in the field of spreading awareness
about digital
publishing to common person regarding their various aspects of Authorship, by providing them details of
publishing, promotion and boosting their existing
published works through our services.
I have
published a post on Digital Book World's DBW Daily, all
about figuring out which
ebook format is
best for your purposes.
Mark has authored three
ebooks about ebook self - publishing, including the Smashwords Style Guide (how to create and publish an ebook), The Smashwords Book Marketing Guide (how to market any book), and The Secrets to Ebook Publishing Success (29 best practices of the most successful ebook auth
ebook self -
publishing, including the Smashwords Style Guide (how to create and publish an ebook), The Smashwords Book Marketing Guide (how to market any book), and The Secrets to Ebook Publishing Success (29 best practices of the most successful ebook
publishing, including the Smashwords Style Guide (how to create and
publish an
ebook), The Smashwords Book Marketing Guide (how to market any book), and The Secrets to Ebook Publishing Success (29 best practices of the most successful ebook auth
ebook), The Smashwords Book Marketing Guide (how to market any book), and The Secrets to
Ebook Publishing Success (29 best practices of the most successful ebook auth
Ebook Publishing Success (29 best practices of the most successful ebook
Publishing Success (29
best practices of the most successful
ebook auth
ebook authors).
In the intro, I go into some pertinent
publishing news: Kobo has become Tolino's tech partner, which makes it a much bigger player in the growing German
ebook market; Amazon is opening a bookstore in New York City; while Barnes & Noble reported a 9 % decline in sales over the holiday period, there's discussion on the impact of the All Romance
Ebooks closure, and once again, I talk
about the importance of multiple streams of income, as
well as multi - currency / multi-country income in order to weather the changes undoubtedly ahead and hedge against potential economic changes.
Author of 76
best - sellers and holder of the Guinness World Record for the first person to sell over 1 million
eBooks, James knows a thing or two
about getting
published.
Related Posts: All
About Regular Expressions, Why Self -
Published eBooks Can Look
Better than Big 6
eBooks
I'm going to talk
about metadata, foreign markets, cover designers, book promotion,
ebook formatting, and a whole slew of other things that will make you
better at the business of self -
publishing.
Breakthrough
published its first
ebook in 2011, Love Your Monsters, which was lauded in Salon as «the
best thinking
about the implications of the Anthropocene.»